Could the Skins do what the 49ers did in 2019-20?

[SunnySide]

Originally Posted by Buffalo Bob

That is a strange fact.

AP is a special specimen imo. I think some players are just born with stronger thicker ligaments. They are just less injury prone and on the flip side, some players are born more predisposed to injuries. Manny Machado was like that, he had "bad genetic knees" and had multiple surgeries including a preventive surgery to an uninjured ligament to just get it over with.

AP also takes stretching and his body health very seriously. He hyper extended his knee 2 years ago on a play and when I saw it, I thought he would be done for the year. It looked bad bad. But he was out a few snaps and back in, albeit hobbling a bit.

"Injury prone" is something I believe in. Teams who can identify it (seems hard to do) are in a better position bc like Czabe says 'availability is the best ability'.

[jamf]

Originally Posted by SunnySide

"Injury prone" is something I believe in. Teams who can identify it (seems hard to do) are in a better position bc like Czabe says 'availability is the best ability'.

This is true and very unfortunate for Guice.

We've seen it before with Michael Westbrook and even Chris Thompson.

Both can play but are only available for 8 games a season.

If Guice has another knee injury this season, we need to move on.

[Warthog]

Originally Posted by jamf

This is true and very unfortunate for Guice.

We've seen it before with Michael Westbrook and even Chris Thompson.

Both can play but are only available for 8 games a season.

If Guice has another knee injury this season, we need to move on.

Agreed. I think Guice is a RB who will need to be paired with another RB to split the carries. Guice should carry no more than 10-15 carries a game. This next season will be important for both Guice and Love. Can they get through a whole season??

I think the increased discipline and much harder practices and probably a lot more post practice running (like the Patriots do) -
will definitely REDUCE the number of injuries this coming season. I think Gruden’s “Camp Cupcake” practices, along with Bruce Allen’s love of hiring players with a long injury history, correllated with the high number of Redskin’s injuries, year after year. It’s not all luck regarding injuries.