Gaines Adams Passed Away
 

[URL="http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/nfl/news/story?id=4833908"]Chicago Bears defensive end Gaines Adams dies at age 26 - ESPN Chicago[/URL]

Sad knews. Hate to speculate...

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I was just about to post this RIP Gaines

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WOW RIP Gaines.

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Just heard it. 26 yrs old. Wow.

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THat is really sad...didn't seem to have any problems

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Sad . 26 years old . Wishing his family the best R.I.P.

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Reportedly had a heart attack. Awful news, just awful.

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A heart attack? Good God, what's going on? This is horrible news.

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I believe it was Bruce Allen who drafted him at TB. Life can be so fragile.

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Wow 26... That's horrible.. What is it these days?

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So Sad, too, just too young. Especially to be having a heart attack. And to think he very well could have been a redskin...

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Just watched an old interview of him when he played with the Bucs, talk about a soft spoken, low key type of guy. It just doesn't make sense.

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very sad, i feel for his family, friends girlfriend, just terrible, rip gaines

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What the hell. Only 26 and a heart attack, my thoughts are with his family.

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How horrible.......RIP man...26
Prayers for him and his family

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Geez that's terrible. RIP Gaines.

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PFT says he went into cardiac arrest caused by an enlarged heart

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Coroner's report: Cardiac arrest, enlarged heart.

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[quote=WaldSkins;655603]PFT says he went into cardiac arrest caused by an enlarged heart[/quote]

Beat me to it

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[quote=SmootSmack;655609]Beat me to it[/quote]

You can still get the link....

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[url=http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/nfl/news/story?id=4833908]Chicago Bears defensive end Gaines Adams dies at age 26 - ESPN Chicago[/url]

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So sad...My prayers be with the Adams family. Twenty six is much too young.......RIP

HTGT..Is becoming all too real in today's world.

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From the reports, it was NOT a heart attack. A heart attack is a heart vessel closing down by a blood clot. This was different, and had nothing to do with cholesterol, eating, etc.

They're saying "enlarged heart" -- which can lead to lethal heart rhythms (ie. fast heartbeats). That's how he died.

But the enlarged heart part -- it was either actually a thick heart (hypertrophic cardiomyopathy) -- which is in your genetics from birth.. or an enlarged heart (dilated cardiomyopathy) - which you can inherit or can be caused by something like a virus. It could still be drugs (cocaine) as well - but it doesn't seem like that yet.

Anyway, it's interesting because all these athletes get TONS of screening tests BEFORE they sign their million dollar contracts. Someone must've missed this one.

An interesting sad side note: Tampa Bay just traded him for a 2nd round pick to Chicago about 2-3 months ago. A morbidly good choice.

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[quote=ethat001;655828]
An interesting sad side note: Tampa Bay just traded him for a 2nd round pick to Chicago about 2-3 months ago. A morbidly good choice.[/quote]

Yeah, I was wondering if there was another Gaines Adams when I first read the report. I was like 'wow theres a Gaines Adams in Chicago and Tampa.' Never even realized he had been traded. Personally I think the Buc's should give the Bears the 2nd round pick back. It would be a nice gesture on be half of the Buc's organization.

Anyway looks like the Bears won't be getting anything from the league.

[quote]The NFL has not given any compensatory draft picks out for players who have passed away in previous years, including Korey Stringer, Sean Taylor, Damien Nash, Darrent Williams and Marquis Hill. I highly doubt the NFL would change that now. [/quote]

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26 years old? what the hell is going on? RIP Adams, and god bless his family

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Wow, that's awful...so young and so much potential. RIP.

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he had an enlarged heart, very sad stuff

RIP Gaines.

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The league really should look into reimbursing teams who loose players like this... not fair at all! RIP Gaines, I always thought he would break out sooner or later

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Shocking and saddening. RIP.

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Adams has a somewhat local tie, as well. He attended Fork Union Military Academy his final year of high school, before heading off to Clemson.

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Completely shocked when I heard yesterday. Really sad. Life is so fleeting. He will be missed I am sure, and he was just a kid. R.I.P. Gaines. Take care. Maybe god saw something in the kid and needed a DE.

Thoughts and prayers go out to his family. Death and the NFL are becoming to friendly in the last couple of years.

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I met Gaines Adams a couple of times when he was with the Bucs. He was a nice kid and a bright kid. He was the antithesis of a thug.


RIP.


Prayers to his family.

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Sad story.

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yeah when i was watching the games this past week i heard the news and was shocked. Im 28 and hes gone from a heart attack at 26...it can happen at any time its def a dose of reality...RIP Gaines Adams....His future seemed bright.

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The Gaines Adams post-mortem highlight film from this year featured a single shoestring tackle he made vs. Ryan Grant with Chicago, and like three separate passes knocked down against us vs. Heyer and Rabach on a stunt from the TB game.

You know, back when our line was faultless enough to get it's ass kicked by Detroit and Tampa Bay. And everything was Campbell's fault.

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Here's an amazing video of a soccer player in Europe. This guy obviously had a defibrillator. He went into a lethal heart rhythm (probably like Gaines Adams), and passes out -- but the defibrillator shocked this guy (see his body shake) - and he lived.

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PwpSFDbCZY]YouTube - Football player has heart attack but survives![/url]

Atheletes are very carefully screened by doctors before playing sports.. Again, Gaines must've slipped through the cracks..

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I wonder why people with enlarged hearts are more succeptible to heart attacks? Any Dr's in here that could provide some info on that? I'm just curious.

Awful to hear him go, what a player that never achieved his true talent level b/c of an early death, much like Sean Taylor, at least his was not the result of a murder, but it is still an absolute tragedy for anybody to die so young.

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[quote=tootergray34;657382]I wonder why people with enlarged hearts are more succeptible to heart attacks? Any Dr's in here that could provide some info on that? I'm just curious.

Awful to hear him go, what a player that never achieved his true talent level b/c of an early death, much like Sean Taylor, at least his was not the result of a murder, but it is still an absolute tragedy for anybody to die so young.[/quote]
It's usually an issue with blood flow in which it can't provide enough blood to the organs. The heart expands/dilates and the excess bulging lowers the pressure, I think that it's called dilated cardiomyopathy or something similar, somebody that I went to school with had it, track team member. It can lead to all sorts of issues like murmurs, clotting, etc as well.

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No, it's all just because of scar tissue that forms. Then the heart electric system short circuits, the heart beat goes really fast, and people pass out - and possibly die.

Again, it was NOT a heart attack. Two different things completely.
- heart attack = CLOT of heart vessel (older people)
- lethal heart rhythm = fast heart beat (anyone with dilated heart/etc)

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[url=http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4517]Enlarged Heart[/url]