as a big factor in this disappointing season.
By my count, the Giants have 16 players on IR, 7 more were previously waived off IR, and it looks like 4 more are injured & not expected to play this Sunday. You cannot win in the NFL or any other league with so many injuries.
That makes 27 players who could have played for the Giants this year who will not play against the Cowboys. IT looks like the Giants will lead the League in injuries again for the third time in 4 years.
If injuries were random, the odds of leading the NFL in any one year would be 32 to 1. Thus, the odds of leading the League in 3 of 4 years would be 32X32X32 =
32,768 to 1. The injuries are not random. The Giants are doing something wrong and will not be a winning team until they find the cause(s) and fix them.
We thought the problem was solved last year. It was not.
Any ideas?
When the season is lost early, players tend to get IR'd faster.
Every team has injuries. When you have a bad roster, you can't cover for injuries and guys get hurt trying to do more than they really are capable of doing.
100% agree
for example Jackrabbit said if we were in contention he would have not gotten surgery
I think you have to look at a few factors
1. there has not been any non contact injuries since new S & C team
no more injuries in the weight room !!!
2. during TC reign it was rare someone came back from IR during the season
this yeah BJ Goodson came back which shows me that rehab is better than it was before
3. If seems like when Players come back from injury now. -- they are healthy .. they . .they don't get hurt again with some other injury. ..
one note -- a concussion injury is just an injury that can't be prevented or predicted so any concussion injuries you just have to blame on the Gods
also I think OBJ was probably rushed back which is why he ended up getting reinjured hopefully won't hurt his comeback next year ...
If we're 10-2 right now instead of the inverse, half of the IR'd players probably aren't on it.
crickets.
When the season is lost early, players tend to get IR'd faster.
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When the season is lost early, players tend to get IR'd faster.
Agree, I think it was also accelerated this year so that Mac and Jerry would have an excuse to save their jobs.
Case in point is Fluker. The guy mysteriously shows up with a toe injury, and the next week he is on IR. It reeked of padding the IR list while also justifying an opportunity to see Halapio in game action.
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For a few years I was reading here about how the coach sucked and was old fashioned & that’s why there were so many injuries. Last year everybody was patting themselves on the back with the new guy and new techniques. So what happened this year?
crickets.
There's no crickets. It's been a lost season. It only makes sense to IR players more quickly and get younger players on the field when a team is not in contention.
Sorry to burst your TC bubble.
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For a few years I was reading here about how the coach sucked and was old fashioned & that’s why there were so many injuries. Last year everybody was patting themselves on the back with the new guy and new techniques. So what happened this year?
crickets.
There's no crickets. It's been a lost season. It only makes sense to IR players more quickly and get younger players on the field when a team is not in contention.
Sorry to burst your TC bubble.
7 wins (started 0-6)
6 wins
6 wins
Tom Coughlin's final three, injury riddled seasons. None of those teams were in contention at this point in the year.
Additionally, how do you know what's legit and what is not? You think Pugh is packing it in because of the record?
It means nobody has an answer to your valid question.
An NFL season is not a freshly paved auotbahn. It's a bumpy dirt road. This team needs to be more Jeep than Ferrari.
An NFL season is not a freshly paved auotbahn. It's a bumpy dirt road. This team needs to be more Jeep than Ferrari.
Exactly. The trenches need to be filled with reliable snap eating players, and depth that has produced.
I've always felt starting is for the young vets and depth is for the older.
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It means nobody has an answer to your valid question.
I sent you the link to join the Jags' e-newsletter a while back. Nothing is stopping you from rooting for Coach Nightingale instead.
When a defender misplays or overruns the ball carrier and reachs out arms length to grab him, a good shot at a torn pec.
When 2 OL get pushed back toward the QB and they end up tripping each other with tangled legs/ankles, somebody gets hurt.
Inherently weak players, players with poor technique , players beaten by their opponents often have to compensate by overextending themselves....pulled muscles, hammys, ending up in awkward position.
Stuff happens. Bad stuff often happens to bad players.
When a defender misplays or overruns the ball carrier and reachs out arms length to grab him, a good shot at a torn pec.
When 2 OL get pushed back toward the QB and they end up tripping each other with tangled legs/ankles, somebody gets hurt.
Inherently weak players, players with poor technique , players beaten by their opponents often have to compensate by overextending themselves....pulled muscles, hammys, ending up in awkward position.
Stuff happens. Bad stuff often happens to bad players.
The kind of injuries you cite happen to every team. That does not explain why the Giants are likely to lead the NFL in injuries in 3 out of the the last 4 years.
This is a more important problem than who the next Head Coach will be. No NFL team can win when half of the roster it started with in the beginning of the season is no longer playing. Facts are facts.