is it just me or do our injuries seem to happen in practice more than during games?

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don't have time to look up the data, but for some reason i feel like we hear about a lot more of these injuries occurring during practice than actually happening during a game. if that is the case, is there something in the way the team conducts practices that is possibly leading to this? or is it simply just bad luck?
 

I think it's just you. At least, it seems to me that many more injuries happen in-game. But like you, I have no data to back that up.
 

If there are more injuries in practice, perhaps it is because teams practice more than they play. You play three hours a week, but practice more than that.
 

RodentRampage said:
If there are more injuries in practice, perhaps it is because teams practice more than they play.
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Agreed, its easy math. On top of that, practice how you play. We've been playing well which reflects the intensity at practice.
 

How many hours are spent practicing compared to game time? I wonder if there are studies/statistics on this?

So...we lost our best DB, our best WR, and our center. Nelson has missed a game. Bak sat out last week. Who am I missing? That's five starters on a young team and we're still in a position to do something really special. Amazing.
 


is it just me or do our injuries seem to happen in practice more than during ...

What I'm curious about is the seemingly-skyrocketing rate of ACL/MCL injuries in recent years. Am I just becoming more aware of them, or is there any data that shows an increase?

Is Brandon Meriweather right somehow that leagues are encouraging lower hits; which protect the head but put knees at risk?

Edit: did some googling and found this link from the NCAA that's says ACL injuries have increased 1.3% per year over the last 16 years.
https://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connec...features/obstacle+course#sthash.jCoQck5I.dpbs
 

That was a big problem with Warmath, who pounded his players during the week - lots of injuries; this in contrast to Gagliardi at St. John's (my brother played for him) who had little contact during the week, hence few injuries. This made them all the more enthusiastic about contact in games, my brother said. Gag ran plays over and over and over, with light blocking.
 


MinneStoa said:
Is Brandon Meriweather right somehow that leagues are encouraging lower hits; which protect the head but put knees at risk?
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Nelson said in press conference today that Engel came down funny.
 



If I recall correctly, there was an interview (posted here on Gopherhole....somewhere) where Tracy Claeys said one of the thing he did when he took over was lessen the amount of contact at practices, and Kill has let that stand.

As has been pointed above, you have a lot more practices than games, but your are also not as intense and sometimes that may make you clumsy.
 

killme said:
Nelson said in press conference today that Engel came down funny.
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Sorry, didn't mean to insinuate that he was hit in practice. I'm just wondering if constant shots to the knee start to wear down the ligaments and make it more likely to tear eventually.
 

MinneStoa said:
Sorry, didn't mean to insinuate that he was hit in practice. I'm just wondering if constant shots to the knee start to wear down the ligaments and make it more likely to tear eventually.
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Mase has been asked that a few times when he is on Barreiro and he surmises that it might have more to do with over-trining and year rounf training, since acl and mcl injuries are usually cumulative.

Not sure if he has been peer-reviewed on this theory but hey, SCIENCE!!
 

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