Well said Curly. We just returned home to WI after living in Nor Cal for 18 years. The Niners and Raiders have nothing like Family Night. I finally got to watch it this year and was impressed. Of course, it’s a glamorous training session, but what a kick for fans and the new players. I was impressed. As for the argument that players got injured, therefore they should not hold the event, that’s ridiculous. As you said, they’re gonna practice anyway. Players get injured in practice, end of story. And the event raises money for charities. It’s nice to see and nice to be back. No other franchise is quite as unique as the Packers. (And now I won’t need Sunday NFL Ticket to see the games.......)
Totally agree and I would love to know how many players do have injury insurance. About all I have read are on the guys coming out of college, taking out such a policy, to make sure an injury doesn't cost them a lot of money in lost draft position. Jaylon Smith coming out of Notre Dame was one such player. Speaking of Jaylon, it sounds like he is fully recovered from his devastating injury at the Fiesta Bowl 19 or so months ago and is turning a lot of heads in Dallas.
Yeah I mean it’s not to say they don’t still play hard, especially if a player is on a contending team. But I think it’s human nature, especially in such a dangerous game, that a guy might dial it back once he has enough money to buy the world. I still wish TT had been more aggressive in FA, but there are arguments for and against it. Fortunately, Glute made a number of smart FA moves. Wilkerson will be very motivated to have a big year, and I’m sure Graham would like another ring. I expect them to play all out each game.
Seems like torn ACLs in particular happen on non-contact plays. It happened to Jordy. And I think it happened to Kelvin Benjamin a few years ago. Freaky, but not uncommon. I think the freakiest ACL tear was to Carson Wenzhou last year. As I recall, he was in the air leaping forward and was hit from the left and right, moving the knee in an unnatural direction. I don’t think the injury had anything to do with contact of the playing surface. How do you coach to avoid THAT?
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With the frequency of non-contact ACL injuries it's probably fair to say they'd still be fairly frequent though less so than in the contact game. There are a variety of injuries that are not contact related or occur with some frequency without contact, the ubiquitous hamstring injuries being one in particular.
you don't. those are ligaments that have been diseased/degenerating for a long time and just waiting to go. A healthy ligament would never rupture under those loads. Not even close.
you can snap an acl stepping off a curb. i popped mine slipping off the bottom rung of a ladder. kids playing sports pop them all the time. they're not diseased or degenerated. it's the wrong movement/position of the knee at the wrong time.
Maybe AR, Clay and Cobb can all swing deals with State Farm to include the coverage in their endorsements pay.
If I weighed 3,000 lbs I could not step off a curb with enough force to snap a healthy ligament. but at 180 if I step wrong on a chronically injured one, it will snap. When I say "diseased" I'm not saying it has parkinsons or something, but it certainly wasn't healthy. It's been deteriorating for a while.
of course you could. if your knee is locked and you come down it it'll pop. that's essentially how i popped mine. when i slipped off that ladder my weight (150 lbs) came down on my locked left leg. you could hear it when it popped. i know of one person who was walking along looking at his phone and stepped off a curb he didn't see coming. his leg was locked and down he went.
Agreed and a lot of it just has to do with the mechanics of the knee. The knee dosn’t easily tolerate sideway forces. It can be a perfectly healthy joint otherwise. Not knee related, but I badly injured my Achilles’ tendon stepping down awkwardly from a curb. Took 4 days to heal. Stuff happens!
I have friends that plays and played for the denver broncos and played for the san deigo chargers, brandon marshall the lb and vernon fox and they tell me these type stories. In mini camp they practice 2 and 3 times a day sometimes, some guys try to avoid injuries also.
It’s gotta be tough on a rookie trying to make the team. Go all out to impress and risk injury, or, take an easier route. Then again, I’d expect that player to go all out. As for the veterans, well they just get held out anyway to make room for the new guys in preseason. In a game as physical and violent as football, it’s probably near impossible to avoid injury anyway. Too many unknowns. People get injured stepping off curbs.......
It may be a blessing in disguise.
Out of curiousity, why?
