Niners to look into ‘everything,’ including substation theory
January 21, 2026
Niners to look into ‘everything,’ including substation theory
39 comments
This has gone too far šš¤£
– 1: electrical fields from power lines and power substations are non-ionizing.
– 2: Non-ionizing radiation does not have enough energy to break chemical bonds or damage DNA, proteins, or collagen.
– 3: The 49ers have practiced at that specific location in Santa Clara since 1988, and the substation has been there since 1986.
Results speak for themselves. How about firing the worst training and medical staff in sports history. In any other organization if youāre the worst at something you need to try something different. Regardless of their explanation of what happened
What a power move.
How can it hurt? Itās electric, boogy woogy woogy.
Iām amped up for whatever works.
Iām reVOLTed that this took so long.
Ohm-my! They are actually being serious!
Stupid conspiracy theory aside, is anything actually gonna happen or is this a case of “we’ve investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong?”
Maybe less intense training regiments and practices in between games would be a nice start.
Its almost definitely to out rumors to rest, especially if players donāt want to come here because of it
Considering this is about as scientific as a flat earth and that at least some of the injuries happened in other stadiums….er….nope. Maybe a better training staff? More flexibility/yoga stuff?
Bogus or not probably smart to address it at some level publicly because the perception of it being potentially hazardous has already picked up steam and you can guarantee if some former players are talking about it, agents are talking about it and so forth (Delanie Walker said players were talking about it when he was here). Really the last thing you want is potential free agents or players spooked about the proximity of this thing, and being fair to players theyāre not doctors or scientists and itās very easily something they could be susceptible to worrying about.
FUCK power stations! Back to sunshine and candlelight only for my Niners!
Easier practices. Start with easy and work up to rezone long power stations.
The only logical answer is to build a giant faraday cage around the practice facility.
I swear to God, aliens havenāt visited us yet because a portion of our population believes in pseudoscience like this shit. We should take all the folks who believe in shit like this and put them on a spaceship to Mars with Elon Musk.
Well itās about time. Not that I think the substation has anything to do with it but itās not just bad luck.
They will look at it. Find nothing. And press on.
New alt helmet designs dropping soon.
How about indigenous burial grounds?
Are they looking into new strength and conditioning staff?
Just maybe Kyle will call Mike McDaniel and observe how Jim Harbaugh ramp their team up in early camp preseason and tone it down a bit. These seasons are long.Ā
Harbaugh kept using an airplane taking off in his interviews and no pads yet, etc…Ā
Is Jed York and Fam under invested in sports science? Maybe they can hire the Mayo Clinic for some ideas this off-season.Ā
It would be irresponsible for them to not have someone at least read the thread.
Granted it would be exponentionally more irresponsible for them to treat it as anything more than quackery, but someone going āhey I know itās probably bs, but letās just double checkā seems rational to me
Build a faraday cage around the practice facility to make everyone happy.
IT’S ELECTRIC
Lmao they probably just practice too hard and donāt give their bodies enough time to rest and recover.
Nonsense. Clearly the injuries happen because the Leviās Stadium was build on top of an Indian burial ground.
Substation found to be the equivalent of ChernobylĀ
Iām superstitious. Move practices to another location, please.
I think Lynch should look up his ass to see where his picks are coming from first.
Micro-earthquakes? Dozens per day, weakening ligaments, until one day… SNAP!!
/s
What else is he going to say?
Does this mean everyone is going to ignore Dustin Perry again? His promotion is what everyone remembers as “changing out the training staff” back in the day. They didn’t, they just promoted him.
Will they look into the same guy at the top of the strength and conditioning department for 7 yearsĀ
Iām glad they are looking into āeverythingā and I donāt put much stock into the substation idea.
Iād love to see some actual research and data into the idea that this is related to Shanahanās practice regime. There are rumors that his practices are hard, but is there evidence this actually results in a higher injury rate? Can we correlate our injury history with other coaches/organizations who have similar practice regimes and their injury records?
Also some data on practice versus performance and not just injury results. Maybe a more āvigorousā practice does have a correlation with a higher injury rate but that might come with a performance benefit. We are hearing rumors out of Tampa Bay how Bowles relies heavily on walk throughs rather than live reps and the end result is a lot of blown assignments.
I donāt have enough information on ***ANY*** of this to offer an informed opinion, but if they are truly looking into everything Iād love it to be made public how they looked into practice and what conclusions were drawn.
The next obvious thing to look at is the strength and conditioning staff. Itās very easy from the outside looking in to point a giant finger at this, but Iād LOVE for a transparent-to-the-fanbase evaluation of this.
Once players believe it, thatās all there is to it. It could very will hinder FA signing moving forward. Perception is reality. Just move the goddamn practice facility, letās not act like anyone involved in that process is strapped for cash
I canāt wait for the squad to practice in uniforms wrapped in those mylar emergency blankets as they line the fences with tin foil
39 comments
This has gone too far šš¤£
– 1: electrical fields from power lines and power substations are non-ionizing.
– 2: Non-ionizing radiation does not have enough energy to break chemical bonds or damage DNA, proteins, or collagen.
– 3: The 49ers have practiced at that specific location in Santa Clara since 1988, and the substation has been there since 1986.
Results speak for themselves. How about firing the worst training and medical staff in sports history. In any other organization if youāre the worst at something you need to try something different. Regardless of their explanation of what happened
What a power move.
How can it hurt? Itās electric, boogy woogy woogy.
Iām amped up for whatever works.
Iām reVOLTed that this took so long.
Ohm-my! They are actually being serious!
Stupid conspiracy theory aside, is anything actually gonna happen or is this a case of “we’ve investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong?”
Maybe less intense training regiments and practices in between games would be a nice start.
Everything except the way Kyle practices I bet
Just stop practicing so damn hard
Everything but the training and SC staff
I have a theory
https://preview.redd.it/oz368943rseg1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2fe3934025b762ed8cc2577bc80cf544d9e434f8
Its almost definitely to out rumors to rest, especially if players donāt want to come here because of it
Considering this is about as scientific as a flat earth and that at least some of the injuries happened in other stadiums….er….nope. Maybe a better training staff? More flexibility/yoga stuff?
Bogus or not probably smart to address it at some level publicly because the perception of it being potentially hazardous has already picked up steam and you can guarantee if some former players are talking about it, agents are talking about it and so forth (Delanie Walker said players were talking about it when he was here). Really the last thing you want is potential free agents or players spooked about the proximity of this thing, and being fair to players theyāre not doctors or scientists and itās very easily something they could be susceptible to worrying about.
FUCK power stations! Back to sunshine and candlelight only for my Niners!
Easier practices. Start with easy and work up to rezone long power stations.
The only logical answer is to build a giant faraday cage around the practice facility.
I swear to God, aliens havenāt visited us yet because a portion of our population believes in pseudoscience like this shit. We should take all the folks who believe in shit like this and put them on a spaceship to Mars with Elon Musk.
Well itās about time. Not that I think the substation has anything to do with it but itās not just bad luck.
They will look at it. Find nothing. And press on.
New alt helmet designs dropping soon.
How about indigenous burial grounds?
Are they looking into new strength and conditioning staff?
Just maybe Kyle will call Mike McDaniel and observe how Jim Harbaugh ramp their team up in early camp preseason and tone it down a bit. These seasons are long.Ā
Harbaugh kept using an airplane taking off in his interviews and no pads yet, etc…Ā
Is Jed York and Fam under invested in sports science? Maybe they can hire the Mayo Clinic for some ideas this off-season.Ā
It would be irresponsible for them to not have someone at least read the thread.
Granted it would be exponentionally more irresponsible for them to treat it as anything more than quackery, but someone going āhey I know itās probably bs, but letās just double checkā seems rational to me
Build a faraday cage around the practice facility to make everyone happy.
IT’S ELECTRIC
Lmao they probably just practice too hard and donāt give their bodies enough time to rest and recover.
Nonsense. Clearly the injuries happen because the Leviās Stadium was build on top of an Indian burial ground.
Substation found to be the equivalent of ChernobylĀ
Iām superstitious. Move practices to another location, please.
I think Lynch should look up his ass to see where his picks are coming from first.
Micro-earthquakes? Dozens per day, weakening ligaments, until one day… SNAP!!
/s
What else is he going to say?
Does this mean everyone is going to ignore Dustin Perry again? His promotion is what everyone remembers as “changing out the training staff” back in the day. They didn’t, they just promoted him.
Will they look into the same guy at the top of the strength and conditioning department for 7 yearsĀ
Iām glad they are looking into āeverythingā and I donāt put much stock into the substation idea.
Iād love to see some actual research and data into the idea that this is related to Shanahanās practice regime. There are rumors that his practices are hard, but is there evidence this actually results in a higher injury rate? Can we correlate our injury history with other coaches/organizations who have similar practice regimes and their injury records?
Also some data on practice versus performance and not just injury results. Maybe a more āvigorousā practice does have a correlation with a higher injury rate but that might come with a performance benefit. We are hearing rumors out of Tampa Bay how Bowles relies heavily on walk throughs rather than live reps and the end result is a lot of blown assignments.
I donāt have enough information on ***ANY*** of this to offer an informed opinion, but if they are truly looking into everything Iād love it to be made public how they looked into practice and what conclusions were drawn.
The next obvious thing to look at is the strength and conditioning staff. Itās very easy from the outside looking in to point a giant finger at this, but Iād LOVE for a transparent-to-the-fanbase evaluation of this.
Once players believe it, thatās all there is to it. It could very will hinder FA signing moving forward. Perception is reality. Just move the goddamn practice facility, letās not act like anyone involved in that process is strapped for cash
I canāt wait for the squad to practice in uniforms wrapped in those mylar emergency blankets as they line the fences with tin foil
Have they looked into a voodoo curse…?