“Like others, as we come to the close of the season, I wish to express my gratitude to you and the team for putting out a great product and keeping us connected. As Keith mentioned last week, keeping us connected to the players and staff as humans takes some of the edge off of the shared frustration we have with them.
The question about injuries is obviously one that is coming up more, and we have had what any reasonable person would call more than our fair share this year. Bad luck? Snake bitten? Something in conditioning or coachable? I have no idea (I’m definitely not that football smart). But I do agree with, and have been considering something you noted last week, and that is that the human skeleton (bones and ligaments) really does have a maximum stress loading capacity, and it’s possible that we may have reached a point where we are training muscles to be capable of loading more stress than the structure can handle. I’m wondering if there are any new player technologies being looked at which we don’t regularly hear about to reduce some of the stress load?”
Jeez Chris, I didn’t even stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. No way I’m gonna know this stuff. I know this — people that like to exercise and are in great shape eventually run the risk of messing up knees if they run all the time, or shoulders if you are lifting weights, whatever. Now, you are talking about high-level workouts plus going into games and having some of those body parts exposed over and over to what amount to mini-car crashes every play. Oh, and all those guys are simply bigger than they were 35 years ago.
Not sure there is a good answer. There are ways to try and prevent stuff, but realistically, not sure anything is better than crossing your fingers that your team will be one of the ones that stay healthy.