CTE: Collective Trauma Endurance - a podcast by Andrew, Ed, and Zak

Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where in light of the situation enveloping the Miami Dolphins and QB Tua Tagovailoa, this week your hosts examine the NFL’s ongoing struggle with concussion protocols and head injuries. Long swept under the rug, the shield has in recent years become it’s lone grandest advocate for the fastidiousness of said concussion-related protocols. The optics of a stumbling Tua in a week 3 contest and his graphic exit from a week 4 game played a mere four days removed provided quite a bit of pushback against the NFL’s grotesque self-service. Tua’s future and that of Dolphins coaches and medical staff involved set the table for a conversation that, in the wake of other recent news considers chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and the potential effect it may have on retired NFL back and Georgia Senatorial candidate Herschel Walker amidst disturbing behavioral revelations and numerous public oratory gaffes, as well as HOF LB Junior Seau’s tragic suicide and inactive WR Antonio Brown’s increasingly mercurial behavior following a devastating blow to the head in a 2016 playoff game. What, if any, is the answer to this crisis? All of that and more, but first rants, where Zak decries the excessive adulation sent Aaron Judge’s way in the run-up to achieving an *exclusively* American League record; Andrew relays an awed dispatch upon witnessing the televised debut of the NBA’s likely next sensation; and finally Ed reconciles the hypocrisy of retired NFL great Richard Sherman’s not-so-distant criticism of the league’s Thursday product with his current analyst position on those very same telecasts.

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