Fox News Host Dagen McDowell Dismisses Tua Tagovailoa’s First Head Injury as ‘Lunacy’
Jesse Watters, co-host of the Fox News roundtable show The Five, lambasted a colleague who criticized the outpouring of concern for Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, after the NFL player suffered two brutal injuries in just four days. The 24-year-old was pummeled during Thursday night’s game against the Cincinnati Bengals, after hitting his head on the ground and struggling to stand upright on Sunday while playing the Buffalo Bills.
Fox News’ Dagen McDowell chalked up calls for firings and investigations into why Tagovailoa was allowed to play again so soon as “uninformed hysteria” online, with “lunatics going off in the blue check-mark world.” But Watters pushed back on her assertions.
“The shot where he stumbles and can’t walk — that is demonstrating a clear gross motor instability,” Watters said of Tagovailoa’s concerning movements last Sunday. The NFL players’ association was already looking into that incident, which left the third-year quarterback with back and ankle issues, according to the team’s pre-game injury report Thursday.