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Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast

Dr. David Chao - @ProFootball Doc

Business of Sports: NFL Business Podcast

NFL Business

Sports News, News

4.7626 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Former Chargers team physican, Dr. David Chao talks with Andrew on a wide range of topics including: - The responsibillities of a team physician (4:50) - Junior Seau (10:00) - How concussion protocols have evolved (15:58) & the 'Edelman' rule (21:30) - Tyrod Taylor's punctured lung (25:30) - 2020 injuries...more than normal, or just higher profile names? (40:30) - Grass vs Turf injuries ( 47:15) - Covid & the NFL (52:51) linktr.ee/BusinessOfSports   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey there, boys and girls. Welcome to another edition of the business of sports with Andrew Brandt.

0:04.4

We're going to talk injuries today.

0:06.2

I really wanted to have this guest for this week and what's going on in the NFL,

0:10.0

and specifically the situation with Tyrod Taylor and the Chargers.

0:13.8

No better guests than my friend, Dr. David Chow.

0:17.4

David is the former doc of the aforementioned Chargers, then San Diego, where he still is,

0:23.6

and now L.A., of course, and involved with a lot of other sports organizations.

0:28.5

Scott Pro Football Dock.com, pro football doc on Twitter, kind of a go-to guy for injuries.

0:33.8

And we're going to talk globally about injuries, but we'll start with Tyrod.

0:37.2

But first, David, welcome to the podcast. I am always interested in medical things. injuries and we're going to talk globally about injuries but we'll start with Tyrod but first David

0:38.1

welcome to the podcast I am always interested in medical things never get to it as a full issue on

0:45.1

the podcast but here we are well it's probably good that you don't get to it as a full issue right

0:50.7

I mean you kind of don't want to hear about medical, and when you do, it's usually

0:54.7

bad news, so it's not a fun topic. But I'm honored that you asked me to come on. I've been a big

1:02.9

fan of yours, and as you know, kind of in some ways, followed in your footsteps in a weird way, right?

1:09.9

I mean, obviously, I fell into this through national football post, an outfit that you started, right?

1:17.4

And essentially, it's the ex, right?

1:22.4

The ex front office guy, you, I'm the ex-doctor.

1:25.3

So I've often described what I do as the medical Mike Pereira,

1:29.0

but it might be the front office, Andrew Brandt, might be the medical Andrew Brand, you know,

1:34.7

whatever. Yeah, it's an interesting history that people don't know. Even knowing me from ESPN or

1:41.4

Ross Tucker or Sports Illustrated or TV started my media when I left the Packers

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