Looking at the amount of injuries this team suffered this year one has to question the S&C program. I know players get injured in this league but I looked at the NFL injury list week by week for 4 teams during the regular season (Not Patriots because they are notorious for cooking the list). http://www.nfl.com/injuries Texans, 49ers, Falcons and Ravens and what I found was obvous for us but compared to the other teams it was amazing. Falcons had an average of 8.25 injuries on list per week 49ers had an average of 8.6 injuries on list per week Ravens had an average of 12 injuries on list per week Texans had an average of 17 injuries on list per week That says a lot to me about the ability to keep a relitivley young team healthy. The Texans are one of the youngest teams in the league and they were conistently hurting every week. Some of that should fall on the S&C staff right? Also watching the Ravens keep up defensively with the uptempo Patriots was incredible. THIS IS THE NEW NFL. Teams are heading into uptempo offenses and Chip Kelly is a sign that things are changing. Defenses need to evolve and the Ravens credit their conditioning for keeping up. The Texans defense looked winded since week 12 and for a young team to be injured AND gassed 4 weeks before the playoffs is just unexceptable to me. thoughts?
Hard to say without looking at more specifics, like the kind of injuries and who is getting injured. Could be a lot of guys getting held out as a precaution, especially when we were cruising and there was no need to rush them. Also have to look at plays played in games. If we're not using as many guys as other teams, then that could explain it. However, FWIW, Foster has been injury free and i believe he trains with his brother. Daniels also started training with Foster this summer and looked to be in great shape, but did have an injury. So, that's something else to look at. Who is training where and is it only in the off season or in season? I know Cushing trains in Jersey in the off season. IIRC, Watt, Barwin and others trained somewhere locally. If the ravens are well conditioned and they were above average, then what does that really say about the connection you are trying to make? i think the Texans just had a lot of minor injuries and guys got extended rest.
I think you're making a huge reach. You have to get more specific with the numbers. Player names, reasons, etc... we're actually notorious for poor field conditions, maybe the field is the problem, there's even a lawsuit behind that notion. Again, it could be anything, huge leap to make.
I remember there's regularly some article about how our training camps have some of the worst conditions in the league as far as heat goes. Also, just like how Belichick is never straight with the injury report, maybe Kubiak is overly cautious with his friday report too. What's probably more telling is the number of injury inactives every sunday.
Not buying it unless there is some more long term & historical data with a particular set of trainers. Two OT games on 3 days rest aint helping anybody heal right.
Take the week two report as an example. 13 players were on it. 11 of those players were listed as "full participation in practice - probable". Many of the other weeks had similar numbers. Based on that it appears that Houston was being very thorough in their reporting.
Maybe having our training camp in a HUMID DESERT has something to do with it. I'm sure they are leaving some of themselves out there on the practice field in july and august.
