{"id":83486,"date":"2022-10-01T04:56:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T04:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/fox-news-host-dagen-mcdowell-dismisses-tua-tagovailoas-first-head-injury-as-lunacy\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T04:56:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T04:56:59","slug":"fox-news-host-dagen-mcdowell-dismisses-tua-tagovailoas-first-head-injury-as-lunacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/fox-news-host-dagen-mcdowell-dismisses-tua-tagovailoas-first-head-injury-as-lunacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Host Dagen McDowell Dismisses Tua Tagovailoa’s First Head Injury as ‘Lunacy’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jesse Watters, co-host of the Fox News roundtable show The Five<\/em>Lamambas a colleague who reported the outpouring of concern for Miami Dolphins Tua Tagovaloa, who suffered two brutal injuries in just four days after the NFL player. The 24-year-old was pummeled during Thursday night’s game against the Cincinnati Bengals, after hitting his head on the ground and struggling to stand upright on Sunday while playing the Buffalo Bills.<\/p>\n

Fox News’ Dagen McDowell chalked up calls for firings and investigations into why Tagovailoa was allowed to play again so soon as \u201cuninformed hysteria\u201d online, with \u201clunatics going off in the blue check-mark world.\u201d But Watters pushed back on her assertions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe shot where he stumbles and can’t walk \u2014 that is demonstrating a clear gross motor instability,\u201d Watters said of Tagovailoa’s concerning movements last Sunday. The NFL players’ association was already looking into that incident, which left the third-year quarterback with back and ankle issues, according to the team’s pre-game injury report Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is a pretty tight turnaround. You’re going Sunday to Thursday,\u201d Watters noted. \u201cYou already know you can have another concussion easier if you’ve just sustained one a couple of days before. He is at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are talking about a criminal investigation. There are people that should be fired within the organization \u2014 the team medical unit. I don’t know how the guy’s agent didn’t say, ‘Hey, you know what? We’re not going to play him this week.’ You are risking a huge, huge asset right there. It’s not like it’s the playoffs. It’s a shame what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

Concussion expert Chris Nowinski was one of a chorus of voices demanding consequences for those involved. A CTE specialist, Nowinski reupped a tweet he posted before Thursday’s kickoff that said, \u201cIf [Tagovailoa] has a 2nd concussion that destroys his season or career, everyone involved will be sued & should lose their jobs, coaches included.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet after Watters had said his piece, McDowell declared she was of the \u201ccomplete opposite opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is Twitter hysteria. It is uninformed hysteria and lunatics going off in the blue check-mark world,\u201d she argued.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s not anything about Twitter,\u201d Watters shot back. \u201cEverybody in the NFL, everyone on ESPN, former players and agents are saying this was horrible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dagen then mocked the idea of \u200b\u200ba cover-up of the true nature of Tagovailoa’s injury on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to believe that on Sunday, Tua lied, the team lied, the league lied,\u201d she said. \u201cYou have to believe that there’s a conspiracy\u2026including the independent concussion protocol doctor who lied about the reason that he was wobbly on Sunday and allowed him back in the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watters disagreed, saying later in the argument that a \u201creckless medical staff\u201d put the quarterback at risk. Watters also claimed that players \u201cwill say whatever they will to get back on the field, and you have to understand that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey absolutely won’t,\u201d McDowell insisted. \u201cIf it’s week three of an incredible season, he will not risk his entire career, and neither will the team.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not excusing what the NFL has done in the past with a $1 billion concussion settlement,\u201d she continued. (The league has also come under fire for \u201crace-norming\u201d cognitive scores, which reportedly lowered the amount of payouts to Black former players.) \u201cBut this is uninformed hysteria by ESPN.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jesse Watters, co-host of the Fox News roundtable show The FiveLamambas a colleague who reported the outpouring of concern for Miami Dolphins Tua Tagovaloa, who suffered two brutal injuries in just four days after the NFL player. The 24-year-old was pummeled during Thursday night’s game against the Cincinnati Bengals, after hitting his head on the …<\/p>\n

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