You continue to prove Steelers fan’s complete inability to look at their team objectively. I presented you with raw data that says teams are being proactive with their players that have been concussed and deactivating them for their own good while the Steelers are not, and you come up with an arbitrary made-up value(70%) and spout off about how I clearly don’t know what I’m talking about.
Newsflash:70% of the league hasn’t been diagnosed with a concussion, but Polamalu has.

I understand your want to have your best players on the field, as we ALL know the “vaunted” Steelers defense falls apart without him out there, but at least TRY to stop sucking on your terrible towel long enough to think clearly about what the article and I were saying without instantly making things up and insulting someone clearly making more sense than you.

The idea that the trainers and team doctors will act in the team’s best interest, which does not always align with an individual player’s best interest, is not a conspiracy theory. The trainers are employed by the team, not by the players.

The business side of professional sports is not pretty. As this article stated, the fact that the NFL even uses independent neurologists represents an acknowledgement of the possibility that a team’s doctors/trainers will at some level be pressured to represent the interests of the team (who employs them), not the players (who do not employ them).

No one rises to the level of an NFL head coaching position without have made some decisions that have put winning over the long term wellness of an individual player. The coach’s job is to win games and that sometimes means persuading a player to do whatever it takes to play.

There are NFL trainers (and trainers in other sports) who have admitted that they followed the orders from coaches and general managers to encourage a injured player take a shot to continue playing, even though the risk of severely worsening the injury was high.

I suggest you take a look at the health records of the players who have been called “ironmen,” like Jim Otto. Look at the number of serious long term injuries Otto deals with every day, and ask yourself how that can happen without the team encouraging him to play when severely hurt.

That’s MMA not NFL. Those aren’t the rules in the NFL. Maybe they should be but they aren’t.

Clearly, you are no genius.

If Polamalu is not suffering from the symptoms of a concussion, there’s no way to keep him out of the game. He’s been medically cleared.

All of the players that you mentioned were still experiencing symptoms–memory loss, nausea, headaches, dizziness etc.

Your rationale means that any player who has had multiple concussions should not play…Say good bye to 70% of the league.

Your comment was beyond hilarious.

Diagnosis of a concussion, however, is not like diagnosing a broken bone or torn ligament. Most professionals use the Glasgow Coma Scale to grade the patient, and if they score below a certain score, which means they may have a concussion, then they need to be given an MRI and/or CT scan. This is NOT done immediately and takes some time. There is no way that they could have a neurologist there that can do this befor the end of the game.

One thing that nobody has brought up is that although he may or may not have had a concussion, he could have also suffered from something more serious, like a brain aneurism or even a stroke. Concussions and Intracranial hemmorhaging have a lot of the same signs and symptoms. That is why non-medical personnel are instructed to use terms like “heat-related signs and symptoms” instead of heat stroke or “concussion-like symptoms” instead of concussion when reporting what they see and know. You wait until the doctor runs his complete battery of tests and gives a diagnosis before officially telling people the diagnosis. Common Sense!

Could you imagine what the uproar would be if Mike Tomlin were to have said that Polamolu only had a concussion, but when they got back to the doctor on Monday morning it was discovered that his brain was bleeding and he would need emergency surgery. The Steelers would look terrible. That’s why you report what you know…not what you think!

Steelers: Polamalu with multiple concussions…probable.

Doesn’t take a genius to see where the writer is coming from. It does require you to not be a Steelers bandwagon fan though.

So now you’re suggesting that team doctors willingly make false diagnoses in order to keep their jobs? Your conspiracy theories are getting a bit ridiculous, and are making you lose credibility. You probably don’t believe that man landed on the moon, either.
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Yeah, because it’s SO crazy that someone with a cushy job might err on one side of a gray area to please their bosses. I’m sure that NEVER happens.

What exactly is the big “loop hole” here? That a player without a concussion doesn’t have to have concussion tests? What? That’s crazy!

Let’s all go through this one more time Mike. Polamalu is it. He goes to the sidelines. The Steelers see something that says “he might have a concussion” and they sit him out for the game even though he almost immediately doesn’t show any symptoms. Troy puts his helmet on, of his own accord. It doesn’t matter as the Steelers continue to sit him. They then say he had “concussion like symptoms”, a term the NFL says is appropriate because not every situation displaying concussion like symptoms is a concussion. It doesn’t matter because Troy still has to pass the concussion tests, an approach the Steelers fully support. But somehow in all of this there is a story about how sleazy the Steelers are?

Give me a break. The only thing sleazy about this is the sloppy reporting and Foolio’s arrogance. You are dead wrong on this one. Man up.

Oh well, gives the black and yellow fans something to talk about. Time to sit back and watch the words fly.

your hard on for the stillers is embarrasing.

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Right on, brother! Couldn’t agree more! Best post of the day!!!