[Snorlax94]

There are ACL's and MCL's all over the NFL. Also lesser injuries are multiplying.



Maybe the lack of supervised training and lack of OTA's are the reason.



Surely somebody from Stanford can come up with an algorithm.

Its a problem all over sports not just football, athletes get injured way more now than they used to. I don't know what to attribute it to.

Could be more injuries are diagnosed and athletes just used to play through those undiagnosed injuries (likely)

Could be worse playing surfaces (not sure)

Could be all the protective equipment makes them weak (likely)

Could be too much heavy weight lifting and too much focus on explosiveness(very likely)

Could be guys are too big(don't think this is it because even sports with smaller athletes still see more injuries)

Could be players are less conditioned(absolutely) guys don't play anywhere near the amount of snaps during games and practices are like 90% "indy" when they used to be about 50% indy 50% team

I agree many of those issues could contribute to the injuries, and one of them is very addressable by shifting more games to grass.

I have an additional fix. Have you noticed they keep increasing the number of games? If every game brings in $5M, why stop at 11 games? Why not 12, plus a conference championship, plus a 2 game championship bracket.

There used to be a time when a team could win a national championship with their 12th game.

I say reduce it to 10 regular season games and stop the clock less to reduce the number of downs. For almost all teams, the season most years would be 10-11 games.

Then, the added games like a conference championship takes you to 11, and even if there were an 8 team playoff bracket, the maximum number of games would be 14 and even then that’s only be for teams playing for the national championship. Athletes in general are being made to play in too many damn games, starting at an early age.

It’ll never happen because of $money$ but it is what they should do.

[Snorlax94]

There are ACL's and MCL's all over the NFL. Also lesser injuries are multiplying.



Maybe the lack of supervised training and lack of OTA's are the reason.



Surely somebody from Stanford can come up with an algorithm.

Its a problem all over sports not just football, athletes get injured way more now than they used to. I don't know what to attribute it to.

Could be more injuries are diagnosed and athletes just used to play through those undiagnosed injuries (likely)

Could be worse playing surfaces (not sure)

Could be all the protective equipment makes them weak (likely)

Could be too much heavy weight lifting and too much focus on explosiveness(very likely)

Could be guys are too big(don't think this is it because even sports with smaller athletes still see more injuries)

Could be players are less conditioned(absolutely) guys don't play anywhere near the amount of snaps during games and practices are like 90% "indy" when they used to be about 50% indy 50% team

I agree many of those issues could contribute to the injuries, and one of them is very addressable by shifting more games to grass.

I have an additional fix. Have you noticed they keep increasing the number of games? If every game brings in $5M, why stop at 11 games? Why not 12, plus a conference championship, plus a 2 game championship bracket.

There used to be a time when a team could win a national championship with their 12th game.

I say reduce it to 10 regular season games and stop the clock less to reduce the number of downs. For almost all teams, the season most years would be 10-11 games.

Then, the added games like a conference championship takes you to 11, and even if there were an 8 team playoff bracket, the maximum number of games would be 14 and even then that’s only be for teams playing for the national championship. Athletes in general are being made to play in too many damn games, starting at an early age.

It’ll never happen because of $money$ but it is what they should do.