While we're at it we should ask the NFL why injuries are up so much since they cut practices and training camp way back.
May want to ask the San Francisco 49ers same question as well.
This question just doesn’t make sense. Injuries are apart of Football. Some teams just have it worse than others. Nothing we really can do about Injuries🤷‍♂️

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  1. I do think the practice plays a huge role and.needs tk be turned down. You can be a physical team but if your practice is leading to.players being roughed up into games jt is not worth it

  2. Well when it’s the same few teams (49ers, Lions, Ravens) that are constantly plagued with more injuries than almost any other team in the league again and again there’s probably something being done differently 

  3. I mean Hutch got his bone helicopter chopped in half, none of these reasons made even a 1% difference.

  4. 1 year is unlucky, 2 years is coincidence, 3 years is a pattern. I’m not saying I want to wait another year and see if more players get hurt. But bad luck happens.

  6. I do think looking into the practice intensity and strength/conditioning could be helpful. When new players got onto the team they said “you guys run xyz practices that much!?!” I get the “it’s football, injuries happen” crowd. But when you’re known for having the most physical practices, and you’re near the top of the league multiple years in a row for injuries, I don’t think looking into changing it would be bad.

  7. “Grumbling” in this case meaning fan bitching online about things they do not understand (what else is new? We live in the era of unearned confidence)

  8. How fucking stupid do you have to be to see branch and hutch’s leg explode and think “this is because of practice”

  9. I think this year is bad luck. Last year, I was concerned about how Aaron Glenn ran the defense.

  10. Im sorry but I need to see some real data that says the lions “lead the league in season ending injuries”. And if you’re gonna do that you gotta include all players it can’t just be starters.

  11. I have a belief stuck in my head that if the turf doesn’t give then something else will (i.e. a knee, or ankle). I do believe artificial turf is bad for player injuries overall.

  14. Can we stop with the conspiracy’s? The lions had hard physical football. The turf isn’t ideal. The strength and conditioning coaches aren’t to blame. In fact most players have their own personal trainers.

  16. I think there’s a few reasons behind it…

    – Brad has drafted and signed a few guys with injury histories. Yeah, things like the Hutch injury was a freak accident, but a lot of guys have had no-contact injuries as well.

    – DC’s practice mentality. Players have said that it’s crazy how hard DC makes the players practice, even for NFL standards. This likely plays into the injury issues we’ve experienced. Remember the media hyping the Lions for dominating a joint practice with the Dolphins during the off season…only to lost to them in a preseason game. Even the Dolphins players thought it was funny how hard the Lions went in tha practice (not that the Dolphins are a model for effort).

    – Turf? Always a concerns when synthetic turf is involved
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    – Our entire medical staff needs to be evaluated. I believe it was two or three years ago that Detroit announced they overhauled their doctors and strength/conditioning coaches. Seems too coincidental that the injuries became a major concern after this.

    – Luck. It’s the NFL. Injuries happen. I think the above items play into this, but it’s also a lot of luck as well, like with the Hutch and Anzalone injuries last year.

  19. I’ve heard a lot of talk about the field at Ford. There has been talk about replacing it and how bad it is. It’s supposedly like falling on concrete. Seems this could be a factor, or at least a contributor. Next thing would be to look at strength and conditioning

  20. Turf plays a big role and should honestly not be allowed fields should be grass and dirt, grass and dirt have give turf does not so therefore something will give and it will be a ankle a knee etc etc

  21. A few years back the Eagles suffered injury bug for many seasons they fired the medical staff twice. They finally have a medical team that has kept the guys healthy the last few years. All those soft tissue injures have seem to go away for the most part

  22. But only one of those things are defined. So our field creates more injuries? Do other teams get injured at ford field as well? What about our strength/nutrition/medical/training staff? and other means nothing.

    Not saying there isn’t anything there . Just saying this says absolutely nothing.

  23. That’s true for any team with a lot of injuries. Always evaluate if anything you can be doing better/different.

  24. One big “other” they probably aren’t considering here is luck. We have shit luck. It happens.

  25. You guys are complaining about practice, but as soon as they stop practicing and they start losing games. You guys will up be complaining too, so it’s never going to be a win win situation.

  27. Players are faster and stronger, i also think the increase games on Thursday, Friday and Saturday increase injuries. Also longer season. Lions every year play a stretch where they’ll play like 3 games in like 18 days and I think they aren’t getting sufficient recovery time.

  28. The blaming practices needs to stop. It’s literally controlled by the agreed contract with the cba.

    Maybe, just maybe the players are getting injured more because the believe in what the coaching staff is doing and they’re trying harder, pushinh ton play through other injury putting themselves at risk.

    – Kerby wouldn’t come out of the game making his injury worse.
    – Branch had a toe and ankle injury he was trying to play through
    – LaPorta was fighting for extra yards dragging another fully grown human

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