Strength & Conditioning

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Originally Posted by J. Spanky

Strength and Conditioning is an issue that I believe needs to be strongly addressed this season. Perhaps even to the extent of staff dismissal. The amount of muscle/soft tissue injuries this season is inexcusable. These are largely preventable injuries that cost us dearly.

Moss, Randle El, Smoot and several other players missed time due to injuries of this nature. If I'm not mistaken, most, if not all of our o-line injuries we muscle/soft tissue. With the small margins of most of our losses, these injuries are among the small bumps that prevent us from winning consistently.

Excellent points.
Many here were unhappy with all the cramping and pulls.
And though these issues, particularly cramping, declined, that can be attributed to declining temps.

My issue with training is on the offensive side of the ball with stretching.
There were a ton of Hammy's and pulls early in the season that impacted the team for multiple games. I asked at the time if there is a different conditioning coach for Offense because the D wasn't having this problem.
No one seemed to know the answer.

This is BASIC conditioning and it likely costed us a game or two.
I agree that this is a concern.