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Symptoms of brain injury. that's what he claims in a lawsuit brought by 15 former players against the nfl. let's talk about that with david cornwell and andy. let's talk about this lawsuit. >> it's a new lawsuit that dan marino and 14 other players are filing. they claim they have brain injuries coming from football playing days and nfl knew these injuries were happening and just turned the other way. looked the other way. interesting to see what will happen with this lawsuit. of course they want damages and they want medical treatment. the judge said it wasn't going to be sufficient to take c...

Concussion problems, you know, that the concussion information wasn't really well known. and certainly people knew that players were getting their bell rung and going back in and playing, but they didn't really know the extent of the damage that was causing, until some of these guys, unfortunately, died and their brains were examined, and chronic traumatic encephalopathy was discovered. this lawsuit is a completely different beast. there are eight former players right now. they want to get, i think up to 500 in a class action lawsuit. and they're alleging here that this was willful and known, ...

>> when you watch the game today, the players are bigger, faster, the collisions are more intense. is it too violent today? >> yes. but i think they are doing a good job of out-of-control. that targeting when you from v. got a guy hitting another guy head to head. a receiver or quarterback, they are knocking that out o. the helmets today are ridiculous, they are about three times the size and weight of our helmets. >> there is the hit. the helmets are weapons. and they are stopping that targeting and using that helmet as a weapon because that's really causing tremendous concussion problems. >>...

>> when you watch the game today, the players are bigger, faster, the collisions are more intense. is it too violent today? >> yes. but i think they are doing a good job of out-of-control. that targeting when you from v. got a guy hitting another guy head to head. a receiver or quarterback, they are knocking that out o. the helmets today are ridiculous, they are about three times the size and weight of our helmets. >> there is the hit. the helmets are weapons. and they are stopping that targeting and using that helmet as a weapon because that's really causing tremendous concussion problems. >>...

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