Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel announced after on "Thursday Night Football" that quarterback Tua Tagovailoa had suffered a concu sion on a second-quarter sack that resulted in him being .The rookie coach insisted that Tagovailoa did not suffer a concu sion in a similar-looking incident Sunday. after being hit by Bills linebacker Matt Milano in the second quarter of Miami's 21-19 win. At the time, many Yadier Molina Jersey presumed he had suffered a concu sion, but he was diagnosed with a back injury and returned to play.MORE: McDaniel was asked about that injury during his postgame news conference Thursday night: Could he expre s with 100 percent certainty that the third-year quarterback hadn't, in fact, suffered a concu sion against the Bills?"Yeah, otherwise we would have reported him having a head injury," . "That's why the NFL has these protocols."McDaniel said there were "five or six different layers" involved in the proce s of determining that Tagovailoa had not suffered a head injury against the Bills."It starts with your medical staff, but then there's independent specialists that look into it, too," he said. "There's an entire protocol, and you're talking to the player as well."MORE: McDaniel said that the NFL has an independent neurological consultant at each game. That person, who "specializes in brain matter Chris Beck Jersey ," is available to ensure parts of the protocols are enforced.NFL executive vice president Jeff Miller that the league believes the Dolphins followed the protocol properly.The coach vowed that, as long as he is in charge of the Dolphins, the team would follow the protocol to a T.For me, as long as I'm coaching here, I'm not going to fudge that whole situation. If there's any sort of inclination that someone has a concu sion, they go into concu sion protocol Stan Musial Jersey and it's very strict.We don't me s with that. Never have and as long as I'm the head coach, so it will never be an i sue that you guys have to worry about.McDaniel said the No. 1 thing he is worried about is Tagovailoa's health. He described Tagovailoa's concu sion as "scary" and said it was "an emotional moment" for himself and the team."That is not part of the deal that anyone signs up for, even though you know it's a po sibility in football," McDaniel said Matt Carpenter Jersey . "To have something happen that you have to get taken off on a stretcher is, you know all of his teammates, myself. We were all very, very concerned."Friday, McDaniel followed up on those comments."I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if I prematurely put someone out there and in harm's way," he said, He continued, :"I get the optics. I get exactly what it looks like. I get people's concern. Red Schoendienst Jersey One thing I can exude with 100 percent conviction is that everyone in this building had the correct proce s and diligence."MORE: But with Tagovailoa having movement in his extremities and then being discharged from the hospital Thursday night, both coach and team are feeling better."The best news that we could get is that everything is checked out," he said. "That he didn't have anything more serious than a concu sion and he'll be flying back with us here on the plane." Related Articles