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Guido, no offense but this article doesn't verify anything other than the fact that the diagnosis sucks for both sides. No where does it say that there was a "new" condition that recently developed. So, I stick with my original question which is how did we not notice this before the contract.

AsylumGuido

Loomis confirmed that a physical was done in March before the new deal was signed. If a new condition was present it would have been found, especially if it was arrhythmia as suspected. It would have shown up in several commonly applied tests. He also said that a team doctor noticed it later. That later was at the beginning of the OTA's when all players go through a physical. That was reported several times when the news first broke.

By all indicators it is arrhythmia which can occur at any time without any prior warning. Thus the bad timing to which Loomis refers. If the arrhythmia had began a few months earlier they could have avoided the situation. It wasn't an additional ECG, EKG, Holter Monitor or a stress test that was required, it would have had to have been a crystal ball. As far as I know no doctor has one of those.

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