re: Future NFL All-Bama Team

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ILB: Foster

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As much as I hate to say it, I think Foster's days are numbered. Once you have a couple of concusions you become more prone to them in the future. When they start stacking up on you it is time to step away and save what mental capacity you have left.

New research (discovered by mistake by a college kid working as a lab intern)explains why. When the layer between the brain and the skull is damaged by trauma, the body produces proteins that view the damaged material as foreign bodies and attack it. Once destroyed, the blood on the outside of layer (with the proteins in it) leak into the brain area and end up detroying that part of the brain. Now with a hole in the protective layer, the next trauma injury hits the brain more quickly resulting in even more damage.