memory is what put him in the protocol.
Today is a key step, IMO. He'll either have progressed enough for the league doctor to put him in the next stage and he'll be able to follow the rest of the return protocol (in which he could still not play) and practice or McD will announce he's out and start preparing Skylar.
I hope they haven't waited until Wed Afternoon to start preparing, I'm half kidding but I hope they told Thompson after the win last week despite his lack of production, that he better be mentally and physically prepared to start at Buffalo and some of that preseason magic better start to rise to the surface. He isn't throwing the ball down field well like he displayed before the season started. I understand preseason is vanilla defenses and guys that will never make an NFL roster, etc...but he looked liked he had a lively arm and he looked better than a lot of other prospects.
It would be something for Miami if he does the unthinkable this weekend, that would change the arc of the team in the off season and give Miami more leverage vs Tua. As it stand now, i think Tua can miss the rest of the year and then just tell Miami that without some guarantee of some amount of $$$ that he isn't likely to take the field.
Tua signed a 4yr/$30M+ deal as a rookie and has made almost $26M of that money. Everyone should read that twice slowly and start digesting what many in here are suggesting
Tua has the leverage, not the Phins
I laughed when i heard someone(TV Media) say generational money on his next contract, like he was being robbed of the good life and sure, $100M+ guaranteed is generational but so was a $19.5M signing bonus he got 2.5-3 years ago and his family is humble, they are not lavish, my gut would say he is heavily invested and will never need to work another day in his life. Easily can fetch a job on the TV, he is squeaky clean and comes across well, never dodges questions that i know of and in general he has the franchise QB job nailed down in every way except for these unfortunate string of concussions and also 12 injuries in the last 5 seasons is taking a toll on a relatively small QB by NFL standards.
I feel terrible for Tua and I feel terrible for the young NFL fans, we have kids that have grown up and hardly ever seen Miami do anything remotely impressive.
Miami needs to find their Kirk Cousins circa Washington when RG III was injured and never the same after, they kept developing the back up
I get a headache trying to wrap my head around things in motion with this team "right here right now"
Owner-GM-Head Coach-Franchise QB...all 4 of those merit their own discussion