Tyrod Taylor Goes To The Doctor
Poor Tyrod, man.
Anyone who decided to watch the Chargers/Chiefs game was probably very surprised to see Justin Herbert starting. It seemed everyone was, including Herbert. I was only half paying attention to the game as I was doodling at the time, but I caught heard from somewhere that he had suffered a “chest injury” in practice. I thought Herbert did fairly well for a guy who didn’t know he’d be playing until the ball was kicked.
A day later, we found out the reason for such a weird start, and wowza. Tyrod not only suffered an injury, it was caused by the team doctor and it sent him to a hospital. The doctor was trying to give him a painkiller shot for his cracked ribs, and punctured his lung. YIKES. Please, Tyrod…sue the absolute pants off this man and the team. Drag Spanos into hell. If this is how the poor guy’s career ends, it’ll be so goddamn bullshit. Tyrod isn’t a star and never has been but you don’t want to lose your last chance to start because a doctor malpractice’d the fuck out of you. Lose it because you suck and the coach needs a spark, the way most QBs lose their jobs.
Honestly I’m not sure how Tyrod was playing anyway. He was getting painkillers for cracked ribs. Have you ever cracked a rib? I haven’t, but I’ve bruised my ribs a few times, and that shit is incredibly uncomfortable. Even with industrial strength painkillers the sheer amount of pain he must be in on a day-to-day basis sends a shudder through me. I say that as someone still currently dealing with his own bullshit pain. Yes, I’m still hurt, it sucks. I appreciate your concerned messages.
This doctor needs to be fired, immediately. This isn’t the first time the Chargers medical staff has had issues. I’m beginning to think Dean Spanos might be a cheap piece of shit! But this should serve as a good reminder that team doctors are not traditional doctors. They are doctors with a specific team-oriented agenda. Their job is not to treat you right, their job is to treat you so you can get back out there and earn the owners money. Tyrod seems like a super chill dude, but he absolutely deserves a bit of justice for this even if it was just an accident.
I just hope he gets another start somewhere. He deserves to go out with more dignity than this.
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This man had a life. his chances of coming back look bleak even without Herbert playing like how he did against the chiefs this man has been in the NFL for a while. He’s been on the ravens,bills,browns,and chargers. he could run the ball better than newton and now he’s basically been killed by some “Chucklefucker” (Dave Rappoccio 2020) who cant do his job.
On a bright side, at least he has a ring.
I mean i guess but he’ll probably won’t be as mobile if he comes back. It’s just sad man
I knew something was up when the Swick didn’t have that mane of fire he usually does…
Ditto, I was thinking, “Wait, that’s not the typical Draw Play Doc…”
Swickles still needs to be voiced by Matt Mercer when TDP Animated happens.
A lot of people were saying this is not that rare with the type of chest injection Tyrod was receiving. I haven’t heard about other errors from the Chargers medical staff like Dave mentioned? Are there any other big ones?
I still feel so conflicted about the Chargers. I hate Spanos, but feel so bad for the 3 San Diego fans who still love the team.
We hate Spanos too. If he ever sells the team, I’ll need to change my handle on here.
Herbert looked great for not having taken first team reps in practice all week. But unfortunately this is going to lead to a QB controversy if he has any success going forward. I think Lynn is the type of coach who wouldn’t let a guy lose his spot due to injury, and he has shown himself to be very loyal to Tyrod.
It sucks to have played the Chiefs on what looked like one of their worst days, probably in a trap game position with the Ravens coming up on their schedule, and come thisclose to beating them and fail to do so.
I like the way Pat McAfee pronounces Herbert – “Air Bear”.
Also, Pat McAfee can go away. He was a punter. He wasn’t special. Ask Marquette King.
The three fans? Now I feel even worse for them. Spanos can rot in hell….
My favorite part about it was that it finally gave David Chao something to talk about that he’s actually qualified to comment on.
The sad thing about this is that it really only accelerated the inevitable. Tyrod Taylor seems like a pretty likable dude, but the truth is that he’s just not a game changing QB. The Chargers weren’t going to win with his arm, and I’d make a case that they wouldn’t have been as competitive in that game had he started. Herbert played extremely well too, given the fact that he didn’t even know that he was going to start until kickoff.
I’d hope that Taylor gets a shot somewhere else, but I can’t really see it at this point. He seems like the ultimate bridge guy at best at this point.
Sorry to burst your bubble Dave, but I heard that one of the new things in the CBA is you can’t sue the doctors if you accept their services. Tyrod isn’t allowed to sue if I heard and/ore interpreting this correctly
Good lord, what an outrageous rule. What a scam. Teams will get angry if you go to a regular doctor, and fuck you over if you use their own and they don’t do their job correctly.
I think, and I say this with no real knowledge of the CBA or medical law in general, that the rule was implemented to protect doctors from being sued in the event that a player gets injured on the field and claims that the doctor was responsible for it in some way. Obviously it’s bogus in situations like these, but i can also see how football is a violent sport, and teams would want to make sure that their doctors were protected in the event of an on field injury being wrongfully attributed to medical malpractice. But then, I don’t see why the courts couldn’t settle that with evidence being presented and all.
I’m not sure why they made this a condition, and it seems pretty easily abused, but I can kinda see the logic behind it.
Even if this isn’t the case, in this particular case (if everything happened following proper protocol) Taylor gave informed consent for having this done, which means he knew this was a possibility and was okay with it and doesn’t hold the doctor responsible for it happening.
He didn’t give consent for his lung to be punctured. Asking a professional to do a thing doesn’t mean you don’t get to have a reasonable expectation that they’ll do the thing correctly.
No, that’s exactly what he did. When you give informed consent, you sign that you are aware that you cannot reasonably expect such-and-such known risks to not affect you and will therefore not hold the medical professional in question responsible if any of them do come to pass.
As an ER doctor, known possible risk of an intercostal (rib) block. Also as an ER doctor, I would not be doing this on game day, let alone right before kick off
Reminds me of something I watched but forgot what it was.
Team doctors are typically not chosen by the team because they are the best doctor for the job. The right to be the team doctor and get the advertising as team doctor is something that is bought by the medical practice. The doctors do have to be qualified and typically have a sports medicine background. That said, some of them are crap. Keep that in mind when you see a doctor advertising that they are team doctor for such-and-such.
Also, this type of injection is typically done with active medical imaging. Sometimes medical professionals do it by feel, but that is very rare. You can see how it can go wrong. I don’t know the facts of exactly what happened with this one and whether imaging was being used or not. Sometimes mistakes can still happen with imaging.
Players playing through injuries like this and getting lots of pain meds is very common. On some teams not so long ago, it used to be common practice to just load up all the players on max safe dose of pain meds before the game. Injections of local pain meds for injuries are extremely common place today. Sometimes as many as 2 in 3 players are getting injections for something.
Again, I don’t know the facts with this case and not defending this doctor. But overall, with the number of injections being done, statistically you will occasionally have one go wrong. The patients and the doctors are people, not machines. The effects/ reactions/ physiological of the patient is never 100% predictable and the medical professionals are not perfect. Every time a person has a medical procedure done, no matter how routine, there is a risk. These players have a very, very, high number of procedures done in their lifetime. The odds of something not going perfect is high. Even if you reduce the risk to 1 in 1 million, if the procedure is done enough times, a problem will eventually occur. It truly sucks, but that is the reality we are faced with.
P.S. – our entire legal, business, and insurance systems around our medical system blows. Sorry you are a victim of it Dave.
IT WAS HIM ALL ALONG
I hope Tyrod gets ownership of the team in his lawsuit.
In quote of Urinating Tree.
Fuck you Spanos.
Tyrod Taylor has the absolute worst luck in the NFL…yes, even worse than Bradford.
Bradford made a fortune, can’t say his luck was TOO bad.
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