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with all the injuries flying around flowery branch, what does that say..


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we've had 4 acl injuries and i can't really blame that to any coaches, those are just bad breaks for our players.

yea i realize that, but during ota's, arent those coaches suppose to work with the players on strengthing those certain problem areas to prevent or at least try to prevent long term injuries??

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yea i realize that, but during ota's, arent those coaches suppose to work with the players on strengthing those certain problem areas to prevent or at least try to prevent long term injuries??

when 340+ lbs. comes crashing down on your knee, your ligaments are gonna snap. there is really no conditioning that can stop that. joints are only meant to bend a certain way, and when you go against that tendancy, bad things happen.

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when 340+ lbs. comes crashing down on your knee, your ligaments are gonna snap. there is really no conditioning that can stop that. joints are only meant to bend a certain way, and when you go against that tendancy, bad things happen.

indeed. if you watch the play that foster got injured on, he basically got bent backwards over his knee and his knee buckled inside with all of his weight plus the weight of the d-lineman on it. freakin ugly. there's nothing a strength and conditioning coach can do to help someone avoid an injury like that. once the defender got all the leverage over foster he was toast

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if you take a look around the league, these incidents are not only plaguing atlanta. i think it tells me that injuries at this level are often severe and occur commonly for those who play the game.

looking to blame a strength and conditioning coach is a bit of a reach.

i tell you what it does tell me, it tells me that the author of this post is dying for some typing and debate time.

nfl= injuries every single week wheather they are mild or severe.

go play some tackle football with the fellas for a few weeks and tell us how your strength and conditioning has worked for you.

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as a college strength & coach, i can tell you, some acl injuries can be attributed to the sc coach, but the ones i have seen, dont count, theres no knee on the planet that can withstand what grady and foster had done to them, its physics, x amount of force this way, at x angle, = ligament snap

the finneran one was due to some earlier issues,

i cant blame evan, hes a pretty good coach, and he cant do much, with 1 offseason

next year will be his test.

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yeah, but wtf aren't our ol wearing knee braces? it's not like they're running 40 yards or needing to make 90 degree cuts... college ol have been wearing knee braces as a precaution for a while now...

college olineman dont face nfl dlineman. when you wear 2 knee braces like most college olineman, you really sacrifice your lateral movement. you cant give up that movment when you play tackle in the nfl.

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yeah, but wtf aren't our ol wearing knee braces? it's not like they're running 40 yards or needing to make 90 degree cuts... college ol have been wearing knee braces as a precaution for a while now...

some guys think that braces limit their movement. the most important thing for a lineman is to keep his legs and feet moving. he may not make cuts like a rb, but he has to be mobile enough to stay in front of a speed rusher. if a guy doesn't want to wear a brace it's his choice.

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