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"Nick Hardwick is a thinker who’s thankful he still can assimilate, and so he’s capable of some great thoughts as to why NFL players are dropping like so much fall foliage.
Still, we can’t know for sure, not even the king’s horses and king’s men."
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"The Chargers may have set injury records — really, 12 players coming off the field in Baltimore, eight not returning? — but they are not alone in sick bay. There’s a league-wide epidemic. Pandemic. It’s widespread, OK?"
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"There isn’t enough training for a brutal game,” Hardwick says. “Everyone’s going somewhere else to get the proper training — or they’re not getting it at all. And we used to get all we wanted to get ready for combat...
...In hindsight, a lot of player reps were vets who didn’t need 14 weeks of (offseason) work. But it hasn’t helped the younger players. Back then, we worked on our bodies."
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/new ... -injuries/
Still, we can’t know for sure, not even the king’s horses and king’s men."
...
"The Chargers may have set injury records — really, 12 players coming off the field in Baltimore, eight not returning? — but they are not alone in sick bay. There’s a league-wide epidemic. Pandemic. It’s widespread, OK?"
...
"There isn’t enough training for a brutal game,” Hardwick says. “Everyone’s going somewhere else to get the proper training — or they’re not getting it at all. And we used to get all we wanted to get ready for combat...
...In hindsight, a lot of player reps were vets who didn’t need 14 weeks of (offseason) work. But it hasn’t helped the younger players. Back then, we worked on our bodies."
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/new ... -injuries/