Open Forum: NFL Injuries Galore in 2011

Hasn’t the increase in rules and more sensitive calls by referees been an attempt to reduce injuries in the league? If it is, it clearly isn’t working and it’s only taking away from the game.

This is a really shoddy remark. You presented no actual comparison statistics one way or another. You can’t follow it up with a fan-pandering attack on the league for “taking away from the game.”

There is someone on the other team missing by half time, then I see them on the injury report the next week.

I don’t want to see guys get hurt, but it leads me to believe these guys are playing their hardest against us, and our guys are better prepared.

but I recall some discussion during the off-season about how a lack of a pre-season and training camp could lead to more injuries since players aren’t building up their bodies to the same extent before the season started. However, that would make sense if all of these major injuries were happening in weeks 1 and 2 of the season.

I wonder, though, if it is having an impact after all.

It comes with the territory. I just hope they don’t come out with even more absurd rules that effect the outcome of the games way too much. Thats why depth is so important. I think a good idea would be increasing roster spots to 60 and have 52-53 active players. This would allow players to just play special teams and let people who are backups that also play a critical role on the team just play offense or defense and not spec teams. I hope that makes sense. For example Delanie is a monster on Spec Teams but it would be nice to have more active players on the roster so he could just play TE to avoid injury. Along with Hunter Culliver R. Smith. To name a few. The league could stand to gain a bunch more Blake Costanzo’s or just having more players being groomed for success. I don’t know. What do you think?

If and I think when he is even slightly successful in Houston, how long do you think before Cards fans start jumping off cliffs

will play by week 13

There is always certain players and teams hit with the injury bug. Part of the game. Texans QB been injury prone since he been there. Didn’t hurt the Packers last year and they were almost depleted

Unless you actually show the amount of injuries that have happened by this point in the season over the last few years, there’s really no way to make a compairison. There’s always going to be a certain amount of variance in the numbers. Some year’s the numbers will be up a little and some years they’ll be down. Without actually seeing the numbers it’s impossible to say. There might be more high profile names this year than normal but overall it could still be within the normal range of what’s expected. Maybe there have just been more higher profile names injured this year than normal, but overall I don’t think the amount of injuries has been different enough to be statistically significant.

I think good conditioning and work out habits prevent injuries right? So maybe the lockout has affected some teams on the other hand I think most of the season ending injuries in terms of high volume are behind us. We took our hits in training camp with Holcomb and Byham, I think we have seen the norm as far as injuries go and haven’t had a rash of injuries like other teams because the way Harbaugh prepared this team. In training camp and practice throughout the yr.