The protocols they play under now prove that the NFL has the ability to reduce the occurrence of concussions. The reason they settled was they didn’t want to risk being proven negligent by not addressing the situation sooner. I would assume they still have the same concern. I know if I sued them I’d be overjoyed with an out of court settlement.
Reduce sure. Eliminate no. They settled for a lot of reasons, part of which was to avoid exactly making any culpability legally established.
Depends on what you’re looking for from the lawsuit. Are you trying to get help for you or everybody? It was a class action suit, they were trying to get help for everybody. And part of the settlement included the league setting aside funds for post concussion treatments of retired players. But the league still keeps finding a way around that. Partly because we’re still not 100% what causes CTE (yeah concussions seem to be part of it, but not everybody that gets concussions gets CTE), and of course it can’t be 100% diagnosed until the person is dead.
I think the league is being very short sited and not really working the math. It’s a 15 billion dollar a year industry. They can afford to stop chintzing on guys with psychological problems that are probably CTE and probably at least partly caused by injuries they got playing. But somewhere they decided they’d rather not admit this problem exists.