But thats exactly what this kind of piece is trying to do.
Look at the context this is talked about in the article
sympathetic angry docs
blaming another party for not doing enough, not the guy eho murders six people
this is all laying the groundwork for being able to label these people as not guilty due to a medical condition
Except you can’t diagnose it while they’re alive. But in the long run if and when we CAN as you yourself point out then we’d know they have a problem and can mitigate it, even if that means we have to commit them. And maybe the NFL could have done something. We can diagnose “CTE like symptoms” (which might or might not be caused by CTE) but the league keeps insisting on taking the approach that these are not “football related” long term injuries and hanging these guys out to dry. Joe Namath has had a bunch of surgeries on his knees all paid for by the league because they say that damage was “football related” but Adams couldn’t get so much as a shrink because the league says his problems weren’t.