Gotta love the ex NFL white guy sitting in this interview acting like he's a doctor or even a dam scientist!! Lol, this is comical!! Merril do you understand how to interpret this data and how it might apply to these circumstances? Got dam dummy
Yea he is simply using words incorrectly, yes in the largest study on CTE they found the number of diagnosed concussions had no relation to CTE development, but playing football leads to CTE. The contact your head makes with the ground and other players even if not concussion level, will never be good for you and leads to CTE. If he had only said what the title says then id have no problem, but multiple times he says playing football has no link to CTE and thats bafoonery.
It is nonsense but doctors everywhere pushed the bs covid propaganda and lied endlessly. Death certs saying car crashes and normal deaths were from covid. Worry about real issues
@@jusbertmeza4424 He never said it didn't. He's talking specifically about CTE. Why is CTE specifically and uniquely linked to American pro-football when many other sports involve repeated impacts to the head?? The fact that Boston University targeted American football exclusively.... Doesn't seem very scientific or unbiased.
@@Reclaimer77 I never knew American football was the focus. I thought football was just the latest added to the list. Hockey and boxing have always been known to have a culture of brain damage. Muhammad Ali got Parkinson's disease. And have you listened to some of these UFC fighters during interviews? Football definitely isn't the only sport giving out head trauma.
@@increasekru5123 I don’t need to. What I’m certain of is repeated hits to the head with enough force causes brain damage over a sustained period of time. CTE=brain damage. Hodge’s deflection by using semantics to make you focus on the lack of proof of this specific ailment is distracting you from the big picture and underlying pattern of cognitive impairment caused by playing in the NFL.
@@increasekru5123 I don’t need to. Some people believe there’s a specific ailment unique to NFL players after sustained blows to the head, what can’t be disputed is brain damage often times occurs from repeated trauma to the head. Ask the jackass crew.
@@increasekru5123 That’s a weird interpretation. People, like Hodge ate denying the existence of CTE due to a lack of clear evidence, claiming it’s not dangerous on the grounds of his semantic focus on the word “CTE”. I’m pointing out brain damage is common in retired players regardless of whether or not it deserves its own medical terminology. Something he for whatever reason omits.
CTE is caused by the consequences of collision sport with concussions being a subset thereof. You could eliminate all concussions and not stop CTE. But this doesn't mean concussions aren't a causative factor. Indeed, they are the worst. Particularly when they come in rapid succession and exacerbated by dehydration, lack of fitness, the point of impact etc. etc.
That’s was my first thought after hearing this interview in real time. Rob claims to be a journalist and criticizes when athletes don’t get push back but sat in silence
All he says do your own research 😂 no actual sources 😂 and then he says the doctors never played football so they don’t know 😂 he just exposed himself he has no clue wtf he’s talking about 😂
No one is saying that CTE is caused by head trauma. What the research says it increases the chances of developing CTE. The research isn’t trying to say contact sports are bad, it’s saying that there is dangers in the way that injuries are handled.
The jury is out on whether or not CTE is real. Brain damage caused by repeated traumatic hits to the head however indisputably causes brain damage. This guy’s purposefully trying to distract people from the dangers of playing by focusing on a simple word like “CTE”, not looking at the big picture.
“I couldnt share what i know because the book wouldn’t have been published” i dont trust people who cant tell the whole truth. Hes more worried about selling the book than putting the right information out there regardless of any monetary gain lol…the man said out his own mouth was that it wasnt cte for him. The physical trauma had him icu for days but we still push kids to play. Why? Cuz the NFL generates too much money. Its revenue, taxes, employment opportunities ect.
Lmao ur acting like the nfl is forcing players to play. Last time I checked these players are making generational wealth from a child’s game. Grow a pair, it’s a free country if u want to risk injury to make wealth and fame then that’s their choice. This country forced young men to go to war and develop real trauma I think these football players will be in okay.
Kids go into football because they want to generally. The amount of kids forced to play by parents at this point is so minimal, and those kids never end up successful anyways. .01% of kids end up in NFL, the money isn't why kids play, kids played football in school well before the NFL became a financial giant.
Some studies have said CTE is caused by hits, not concussions. Assuming that is true, events like football or sports entertainment will always have this aspect, so maybe it’s not directly cause by concussions but taking hits is something inevitable.
CTE is caused by the consequences of collision sport with concussion being a subset thereof. They are absolutely a causative factor. Just not the only one.
@@MrSlickwilly09 It depends on how you define "hit". If you are talking about a collision with other players this isn't strictly true since most sub-critical brain trauma are caused simply by impacting the ground. These injuries tend to be pretty minor. But there are a lot of them. Far more than collisions with other players. And they are cumulative. It's the reason evidence of brain trauma has been found in very young children playing in leagues where heavy person-to-person contact is discouraged and even penalized.
Don't want to this dude. Ain't on television anymore outside of football. He shouldn't be talking about anything else. You're not a doctor so how the hell would you know
It depends on how many concussions you get and how easy you get them. How can they not lead to CTE later in life. I think a handful of concussions probably won't but sustained blunt force trauma to the brain absolutely ties to CTE. Especially in years past so many concussions went ignored and undiagnosed. Playing football in essence of course does not lead to brain injuries typically. Not every big hit leads to brain trauma. But a great many do. Not allowing concussions to heal long enough is the problem. It's more than just seeing if the lights are on.
There is some science that says if given time to recover from a concussion there is no permanent damage but that’s ONLY if you give your brain enough time to fully recover but that’s actually 4-6 weeks
My point exactly. Its more than just seeing if the lights are on. You can still have an acute concussion even if no obvious signs are present. Concussions are almost never given the proper time to fully heal. Especially between occurrences. This is particularly true with Professional Wrestlers and Football Players. It has gotten better in recent years but high pressure careers like that where you are under pressure to perform with the fear of losing a spot entices athletes to come back prematurely. I think the Pro Wrestling world has done tremendously in recent times with handling concussion crisis' Adam Cole in particular probably saved his life going that extra mile. Hangman Adam Page suffered a severe concussion in real time and the way it was handled was on point in that moment. I think the NFL is still very brash. Tua Tagovailoa was a huge embarrassment for them. He should have been out at least 4 weeks after that first concussion. The entire rest of the season the 2nd time. He was absolutely lucky he didnt have his career ended after he seized the 2nd time.@@jusbertmeza4424
Bad look for the odd couple. CTE is real and repeated trauma to the head is absolutely terrible for your brain function. It doesn’t take a genius to see what it does people.
Merril is a good guy and does a lot of good work. But he's flat wrong here. The evidence is overwhelming, just wish these guys would believe the science.
If this man trying to say it's more dangerous to walk up and down stairs, and take a shower than to play NFL Football in regards to brain injury, he has definitely been affected mentally, that's just crazy
This is shameful. This is equivalent to someone saying smoking doesn’t cause lung damage. And saying “the science doesn’t support it” is disgusting yall should be ashamed to give this guy a platform to say this nonsense
I used to like Merril Hoge. But these days sounds like an insane person, like a conspiracy theorist. He's not a doctor, so the fact the he thinks he can talk about CTE and brain damage like this is absurd.
The real issue is the treatment? Umm if I didn’t get hit in the head hundreds of times I wouldn’t need the treatment. That’s like blaming the doctor for not fixing your arm right after you didn’t wear a seatbelt.
So he admits that CTE is real, he understands concussions are not good and you need proper care to recover from it, and acknowledges there can be cognitive issues later in life from playing football. How tf is he not describing that playing football increases the probability of developing CTE? He chalks up his cognitive issues to emotional trauma from his change of lifestyle, but he also said it wasn’t a concussion that ended his career, which means his personal anecdotal evidence is completely irrelevant. He slipped that by the hosts, his story means nothing in the context of concussions unless he’s saying that former football players are just weak-minded people that can’t handle lifestyle changes, and also commit suicide at a higher rate than athletes of other sports. I’m glad he evaluates QBs well, but his science is more flawed than Johnny Manziel.
Imagine someone saying putting your hands in fire won't get you burned. Merrill is a complete delusional football junkie and should not be acting like he's a expert on the science of cte.
I saw "stars" on a couple of plays in 75lb Football. Players who play high school football and college are damaged goods before they play a single down in NFL practice.
I dont need a book to tell me something 🍲 pid like theres no evidence ..obviously ppl get hurt from contact sports, wtf is he saying on that topic..brain damage is a real thing
Cognitive issues?! I kind of see what the guy wants to say. I believe concussions increase a chance of brain damage. And if the person with severe or many concussion experiences has a trouble with circulatory system like a heart disease or cardiac issue and hypertension, brain damage and diseases could easily be developed. Both of my parents developed brain diseases and issues. They had weak cardiac system or high blood pressure. I believe cardiac and brain systems are closely connected and can directly affect each other.
Yo Rob and Chris come on brio this guy must work for the NFL or selling something hey Rob thanks for fight back at bit but ya should of called him on his bs straight up
You have to be an idiot to think repeated brain trauma doesn’t cause permanent brain damage. Thats like arguing smoking doesn’t cause lung damage. And science does support that he’s the one literally using opinions over facts 😂 and then at the end to add to his nonsense he says “if you don’t want your kid to have brain damage don’t live in the house” WHAT 😂
