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This. I can't help but picture him huddled over a bowl of soup trying to feed himself while shaking uncontrollably due to all the continued brain trauma he seems intent on subjecting himself too.
I apologize.I honestly assumed it was sarcasm, which is why I asked. I think someone who suffered significant life altering injuries in the workplace is deserving of some compensation from their billionaire boss. The team doctors are the ones evaluating the players to determine injuries in the first place.
That's a good post. I wasn't being sarcastic but I understand where you are coming from. I believe all NFL players should have 100% medical coverage for their entire life. It actually wouldn't cost much compared to the wealth of the NFL or compared to the impact that the game has on players' health. Maybe it should take a player a few years to be completely vested but Jordan Reed should certainly qualify for lifelong medical coverage. The NFL has never risen to the moral obligation of taking care of the health of its players. I just don't like a system that gives incentive for a player to fake an injury. All players have significant health consequences from the game and all should have medical coverage for life.
I edited my post slightly after your responded. I completely agree with the healthcare and NFL taking care of the players. It’s an absolute shame how many many of the previous generation of players were chewed up and spit out. I also get your point about faking but the team doctors are the ones typically making the injury calls in the first place (which is a questionable practice to begin with) and I’m sure there’s a process for teams to challenge a players injury claim.
Second time you mentioned this in this thread. You actually think he is faking his injuries?
Probably not. I think it is legit. He probably shouldn't play again for his long-term health. But he has made enough money to last a lifetime.
Ok, I got a good friend of mine who said a few times last year he thought he was milking his injury and I just don't see it. The concussion he even suffered was when he begged the coaching staff to put him back into a preseason game because he wanted to make a good play before his preseason as over. He is of course one of the most prone to injury players I can recall but I just don't think it's because of lack of will or toughness.
I agree about medical coverage for life for players. I don't, however, understand why you're so focused on the "incentive to fake an injury" side of the equation. The other side of the equation is teams minimizing, denying, mistreating injuries in NFL players in order to keep them on the field, jeopardizing their health. That's a far larger problem than potential injury faking. Unfortunately there's little now or little under a lifetime-medical-coverage plan that would disincentive teams from doing this. All the lifetime medical coverage would do is say "OK, harm's done now, here's help" without addressing the cause of some of the harm.
I look at more like when the government pays farmers to leave their land barren. Sure Green got paid for not playing but that's what was best for the team.
Are Higbee or Everett going anywhere for 2020? If not, perhaps McVay wants some 3 TE sets.
In last week I had been reading Everett could be made available due to variety of factors ranging from Higbee 's emergence and fact he was already extended. Then with Everett entering last year of his contract with other priorities to sign and need from some draft capital. So when I read the Reed report the first thing that I thought of was those rumors on Everett might have some legs.
Might have something to do with the repeated brain trauma events he has suffered..... I know he was talented, but sometimes life is not fair.
Never judged him for playing, would have likely if I was in his shoes for major reason he made some solid money early in his career but only in last two years has he got what I'd call a major payday. He made close to as much money in 2018 as he did in his 5 previous seasons and got a similar payday to 2018 last year. First 5 years in the league he made about $10M, the last two years he made about $20M.
What Rotoworld forgot to put at the end was "... for now"
