I am so tired of hearing that term especially when it comes to Barkley and Jones. The term suggests that there is something wrong physically or structurally with a persons body. Having chronic issues with a shoulder, a hamstring, etc that are prone to recurring issues is what it means. It doesn't mean just plain bad luck. Barkley stepping on an opponents foot and spraining his ankle. Jones getting hit in the helmet with another helmet isn't "injury prone".
There is a difference between "injury prone" and some bad luck.
rant off
maybe jones will come back 100% from attacking a LB with his head this sunday, who knows at this point. but he's missed time his first two seasons. we know barkley will miss 2 to 4 weeks with the ankle injury, after missing 14 games last season and three the season before (where he came back too early and was ineffective for another three-four games).
i always used injury-prone to describe players who regularly miss time with injury. barkley and jones certainly meet this definition. as do shepard, ross and golladay. so, almost all of the offensive skill players on the Giants are injury-prone, whether there's something wrong with their bodies or not.
At least with Jones you can look at what he was doing when he got injured and it was the same every time (running out of the pocket). Hopefully one day he can have an offense that doesn't rely on his legs and he can only use them when 100% necessary.
Gronk when on the Patriots all those years was the perfect example of injury prone.
Maybe someones example of saying "bad luck injuries" isn't as wacky as it seems haha.
Injury prone might just be phrase that is common here because Holy shit our players are always fucking injured. And it is frustrating when you look around at some of the other teams who seem to always have nearly healthy rosters all year long.
I dunno. I'm far from an expert on anything as you know.
You can't be serious?
Where is your evidence for this??? especially in context to what the open poster is saying....
The ACL/MCL tear is injury prone? does he have a history of that is it something that come up every year?
Does Daniel jones have a history of concussions?
It's amazing how people on this board are so willing to throw shit out as fact without providing any context of evidence.
He may not be right, but he's definitely serious.
Probably a good reason for not using a #2 pick on a RB, but we've had that conversation.
As for Jones, while he's fast he's neither nimble nor instinctive in the pocket, so he's going to be subject to more hits than a lot of other QBs.
Are you saying that Barkley is not injury prone?
Barkley looked to me like he wasn't looking where he was going.
with respect to how massive his leg muscles are and the force they can put on knees and ankles. He's strong enough to easily hurt himself, in other words, it seems to me.