It's time we moved on from Price

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(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 remember watching a sports science show a few years back and the focus on this one was MMA fighters, boxers, the different martial arts and so on. And it showed with MRI's, X-rays and stuff how a regular persons bones and ligaments would never be able to take the impact torque and pressure they put on theirs. Their bones actually get thicker from all the impacts and so on.

So I don't doubt in the least that the greatly reduced full contact practice is having an effect.