The staff took steps to limit injuries, no joint practices, and a lighter offseason that way, and we have players with broken bones, I can only think they got at home, I understood going in (we would still have a few injuries) but our FO really went out of their way to soften them but , these are crazy injuries for what they are. I didn’t say, we have a crazy amount of injuries ‘now’ , but the small amount that we have ATM are odd.
Luck.
Nothing anyone can do to change any of it.
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Exactly.
And it’s not JUST us, even though it sometimes feels like it. Lots of teams have lost really good players already. In fact overall this Mays injury is pretty average. It just hits us harder because of what we went through last year, but that’s recency bias.
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our "training staff " is one common point here, we have been getting injuries for several years, and I could understand IF our players got injured during the season to a degree, but in training camp with pads on, we’re still getting injuries, not to mention, that our coaches chose not to have joint practices and more, to limit the injuries…and we are getting broken bones ? what gives !?
If you want less injuries, put flags on guys. That still isn’t going to stop the tendons and ligaments for snapping and tearing.
These guys are elite level athletes pushing themselves and their bodies harder than 99.99% of any human that has ever lived. It’s almost like when you do that, the body isn’t going to be able to handle it well.
Espn Baby once told me Carleton Davis broke his jaw because he didn’t do enough jaw exercises.
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There is a good tracked measure of days missed by starters and the Lions were the worst team 2 years ago. A fairly objective metric confirmed the Lions were more hurt. Not sure how it was last year but would be interesting to see if anyone can dig that up.
Let’s look at possible variables:
- Training staff: By all accounts Dan loves them
- Artificial Turf: Upgraded a few years ago
- Dan Grit Culture: pushing too hard?
- Holmes bringing injured players for value:
- Good ol’ luck:
Anything missed?
that’s what she said *
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■■■■ Jeff Daniels and Peyton Manning. I’m done with both of them.