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Ex-Huskies TE Rod Jones dies by suicide at 54

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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 70,022 Founders Club
    UWhuskytskeet said:

    DerekJohnson said:

    animate said:

    Swaye said:

    That blows. RIP.

    Too soon?

    But yeah ... CTE is a bitch ... like Aaron.
    How do we automatically know it's CTE? I know several people who are depressed or have mental issues and they never played football.
    Would you bet against it?
    I probably would.
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 70,022 Founders Club
    RoadDawg55 said:

    DerekJohnson said:

    animate said:

    Swaye said:

    That blows. RIP.

    Too soon?

    But yeah ... CTE is a bitch ... like Aaron.
    How do we automatically know it's CTE? I know several people who are depressed or have mental issues and they never played football.
    It’s real, but a lot of these guys just have no identity at all other than playing ball. Their whole life was built around it and you can’t play forever.
    I didn't deny its existence, but it has become a knee jerk reaction to automatically assume that it is at the root of all issues for former players. if Jones played 10 years in the league I would feel more inclined to assume it.
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  • LesGrossman
    LesGrossman Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 1,522 Founders Club
    That sucks - RIP.

    Not saying I think it is CTE or not, but he shot himself in the head, which might complicate the findings and there’s an outside shot that it means he just plain killed himself (not CTE related). Seau and Duerson shot themselves in the chest because they knew that they wanted their brains studied — he didn’t. But he might not have been concerned about anyone studying his brain either way.

    Any way you look at it, it sucks.
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  • RoadDawg55
    RoadDawg55 Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 30,512 Swaye's Wigwam
    DerekJohnson said:

    RoadDawg55 said:

    DerekJohnson said:

    animate said:

    Swaye said:

    That blows. RIP.

    Too soon?

    But yeah ... CTE is a bitch ... like Aaron.
    How do we automatically know it's CTE? I know several people who are depressed or have mental issues and they never played football.
    It’s real, but a lot of these guys just have no identity at all other than playing ball. Their whole life was built around it and you can’t play forever.
    I didn't deny its existence, but it has become a knee jerk reaction to automatically assume that it is at the root of all issues for former players. if Jones played 10 years in the league I would feel more inclined to assume it.
    Completely agree.
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  • PurpleJ
    PurpleJ Member Posts: 37,778
    DerekJohnson said:

    RoadDawg55 said:

    DerekJohnson said:

    animate said:

    Swaye said:

    That blows. RIP.

    Too soon?

    But yeah ... CTE is a bitch ... like Aaron.
    How do we automatically know it's CTE? I know several people who are depressed or have mental issues and they never played football.
    It’s real, but a lot of these guys just have no identity at all other than playing ball. Their whole life was built around it and you can’t play forever.
    I didn't deny its existence, but it has become a knee jerk reaction to automatically assume that it is at the root of all issues for former players. if Jones played 10 years in the league I would feel more inclined to assume it.
    CTE can start much earlier than that.
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  • TTJ
    TTJ Member Posts: 4,827
    PurpleJ said:

    DerekJohnson said:

    RoadDawg55 said:

    DerekJohnson said:

    animate said:

    Swaye said:

    That blows. RIP.

    Too soon?

    But yeah ... CTE is a bitch ... like Aaron.
    How do we automatically know it's CTE? I know several people who are depressed or have mental issues and they never played football.
    It’s real, but a lot of these guys just have no identity at all other than playing ball. Their whole life was built around it and you can’t play forever.
    I didn't deny its existence, but it has become a knee jerk reaction to automatically assume that it is at the root of all issues for former players. if Jones played 10 years in the league I would feel more inclined to assume it.
    CTE can start much earlier than that.
    Correct.

    And most of the damage is done in practices, not games.
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  • BennyBeaver
    BennyBeaver Member Posts: 13,346
    He just couldn’t bear to watch the Dawgs get plungered in the Rose Bowel.
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  • HillsboroDuck
    HillsboroDuck Member Posts: 9,186
    BennyBeaver said:

    He just couldn’t bear to watch the Dawgs get plungered in the Rose Bowel.

    In that case ex Beavers are safe forever.
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  • ApostleofGrief
    ApostleofGrief Member Posts: 3,904
    edited December 2018
    Derek is right. It is just trendy now to blame everything on head trauma. People have been blowing their brains out for as long as guns have been invented due to depression and alcohol. I know somebody like that, and he never played a fucking down of football. He's been dead for 15 years.
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