Things Zac Taylor knew

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(11-23-2020, 10:35 AM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: That's true. There are cumulative injuries and there are, for lack of a better term, "freak injuries."

The thing about freak injuries is that they have a chance of occurring on every play. It's usually very small. Let's say there's a 0.0001% chance of a freak injury on any given passing play. Having an awful offensive line would increase that chance and having the other factors I mentioned (like having no running game at all) could increase that chance a bit more.

When you call over 400 passing plays in the first 10 games of a season, you are riding those odds every single play.

So for the first 399 plays, the bad Oline+no run game+rookies don't get calls from refs+defensive players like to teach rookies a lesson chance of having a freak accident didn't occur.

But when you roll a dice over and over and over again, eventually you're going to roll the number you've been fretting.

Do you know what I mean?

I once saw Troy Aikman get hurt handing the ball off on a running play. Injuries happen. The only way to prevent them is to not even have the player play. Then again, wasn't it Mark Sanchez who got injured in the parking lot right before a game? Guess that's not even a good enough way to prevent injury. Just don't have them in the league.

Fact is, Burrow has a chance to get injured at any time. Unless you're advocating for him to never see the field, there's ALWAYS a chance he'll get injured. You telling me you'd be fine with Burrow sitting on the sidelines? How about if he only threw the ball 5 times a game. Then again, he could still get injured those 5 times. I think he'd be better off sitting on the sidelines. Less chance of an injury.