{"id":5072,"date":"2024-09-28T03:24:27","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T03:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=5072"},"modified":"2024-09-28T03:24:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T03:24:27","slug":"former-db-explains-why-itd-be-hard-for-dolphins-tua-tagovailoa-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=5072","title":{"rendered":"Former DB explains why it&#8217;d be hard for Dolphins&#8217; Tua Tagovailoa to retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ac_91637557\" class=\"article_chunk type_50\">\n<div class=\"froala-view custom-theme first_text_block\">\n<p>From an outsider&#8217;s perspective, it&#8217;s difficult to fathom why\u00a0Miami Dolphins\u00a0QB Tua Tagovailoa would risk returning to football after suffering a third concussion in just under two years. 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Injury-wise, he never faced what Tagovailoa has but didn&#8217;t leave the game unscathed, needing three-level disc fusion surgery after retiring.<\/p>\n<p>Still, knowing what he knows now, Riddick would do it all over again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are wired that way and sometimes that&#8217;s hard for people to understand,&#8221; Riddick said.<\/p>\n<p>Tagovailoa returned to the field after suffering two concussions over a span of three months in 2022, but that was before inking a\u00a0four-year, $212.4M extension\u00a0with the Dolphins in July. 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