upnorthkid
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Educate me please! Our o-line is suffering with injuries and the coaches are running drills in practice where a lineman can sustain a concussion and a broken hand. Is this standard operating procedure? Doesn't sound like the greatest idea to me. Why not protect these guys till the game? Coach keeps saying we need to get healthy. Huh?
To be honest, broken hand can easily happen non contact (think blocking sled or dummy blocking) since the first part of engagement is to get your hands inside on the guy. All it takes is one awkward pop. That's pure bad luck. The concussion is hard to say. Really in practice there shouldn't be a big reason for an OL to be leading with his head. Unsure how it happened, but again seems like it was bad luck. Otherwise it was bad form.