08-10-2017, 09:09 PM
(08-10-2017, 07:17 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: Explaining correlation is not the same as causation isn't crying. Looking at three years of data during a six year period ignores half the data.
Please show me a NFLPA statement claiming the off-season practice changes were made to "favor the vets." You are literally the only person I'm aware of who has made this claim.
Once again, correlation doesn't equal causation. You have made the unsubstantiated claim reduced practices cause more injuries. You have also made the claim injuries will go up because players will target knees because of the rule change the prior to the new CBA. Show me the evidence which indicates injuries are up because of less practice instead of players targeting knees as you claimed. I don't believe that data exists and thus your unsubstantiated claims are exactly that; unsubstantiated.
That's interesting because the injury was reported to have occurred during OTAs. Plus I haven't seen a single source other than you report teams found a herniated disc in Williams back before the draft. Show me a source.
As someone who diagnoses orthopedic injuries, I can tell you unequivocally herniated discs and ACL tears aren't caused by deconditioning. Period.
I have explained this to you multiple times. Stop feigning ignorance. The NFL didn't develop the concussion protocol. Neurologists completely unaffiliated with the NFL develop it. Its purpose is to allow a mild traumatic brain injury to heal before the athlete returns to competitive sports. The protocol allows the athlete's return to sports to be individualized to the patient because every concussion in every patient heals at its own rate. As someone who claims to be a former collegiate football player, former football coach, and former PE educator how can you not know this?
You claim to know what the players know so you tell me if Adams does or doesn't care. Players who aren't in the concussion protocol are retiring. Claiming they would keep playing if the protocol they aren't in was dropped is just false. No one asked you to care for the players health so stop that straw man right now. No one is suggesting players can't choose their own healthcare. An employer not allowing an employee to work when they are sick or injured doesn't take away an employee's healthcare decision making ability. That employee can go see any doctor they want and choose any treatment they want. They can't force an employer to allow them to work when the are too sick or too injured to work. That's another straw man.
Dear lord when you just make your posts larger and larger it's pointless to responds.
He NFLPA isn't going to tell the truth about their plan because they would be replaced if they did..... the owners fleeced them and all they got was less practice.
