Injuries Vs. Wins (Our Injuries are Overstated)

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(01-06-2021, 05:01 PM)wildcatnku24 Wrote: But we can't use injuries as an excuse.... Good coaching can apparently take and entire team of practice squad players and win big.  


oh, and 

The idea is that all teams can use the injury excuse because it is a violent game where a lot of NFL players get hurt; therefore, the injury excuse should not be over used when discussing organizational shortcomings.

Blaming injuries might suggest that the team would have been great without the injuries. I'm a Joe Burrow fanboy and think we have something special, but even if he didn't get hurt the team was still going to have a losing record. Would the injury card have still been played if Burrow was healthy and maybe the same for DJ Reader? 

This article offered an interesting perspective as to why the injury excuse shouldn't be uttered a certain way. Kind of like how it was phrased the way Brown did in his bullish letter of support for Zac: https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/playing-the-injury-card-always-a-poor-excuse/1o9ecwcrbbo8i1n1ygcomiblmt

Quote:What these teams should really be saying is "We weren't good enough or deep enough to overcome the injuries we suffered" because that is the fact of the matter. Injuries really aren't an excuse,

You might not agree with the opinion, but it is easy to understand and not something to readily dismiss.