11-25-2018, 10:31 PM
(11-25-2018, 10:26 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Hmm, I don't know if I pin the injuries on the strength and conditioning department. I don't have hard stats to supply, but it seems to me that injuries have been an increasing problem throughout the league, ever since they put a severe cut into the amount of contact practice time that teams can have. Those contact practices have a way of tempering a body to get accustomed to the bone jarring hits from games. When you take that practice contact away, the body just isn't ready for it in live action. (to my way of thinking, at least)
Another thing to consider is the proliferation of nutrition plans and strength programming at the college level. Some of those programs seem to be able to build athletes up, so that they can hold their own with the more genetically gifted, in the college ranks. But, when they come to the pro level, and don't have that structured system laid out on a rigorous schedule, they fail to maintain that same level of physical optimum that they had in college. When you take overachieving, regular genetics guys, and put them in the NFL pool with all of the genetic elites, they seem to crumble.
Now, keep in mind, that is all just my personal opinion, based on what I've seen and read from any number of sources over the years.
I think some of the injuries are from the rule changes. Like not being able to tackle certain ways, makes you tackle other ways thus hurting different parts of the body.
