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The General Front 7 Thread
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Tank
Hall of Famer
Gotcha, but certainly doesn't account for most of it.
allblackraven
Hall of Famer
Definitely not and I agree that some injuries you just can't avoid, shit happens. But the pile of crap that's happening to the Ravens on the injury front since SB year is so big that there has to be some more scientific explanation for it.
TheCity5
MVP
Looking back on that post, I forgot to note that some of those players didn't have documented injury history, with that said we've given opportunities to players who have problems with staying healthy and that includes Perriman and Woodhead among others. I don't really have an answer outside of that, it's the legit best you can do, just because someone is an iron man it doesn't mean that they can't go down.
The Raven
Veteran
Eating a lot of crow today. Had no idea how good he made other people look.
DeVito52
Ravens Ring of Honor
Perriman didn't have a big injury history.
TheCity5
MVP
Yeah but we gave him the benefit of the doubt after his second injury which was my point, sometimes you have to question whether you can trust him to stay healthy and then he misses a whole pre-season to a hamstring. Maybe the Ravens should have never depended on him to stay healthy in the 1st place.
K-Dog
MVP
I mean you sure would like to think there is. I am no scientist by any means but I feel like I can hold my own when it comes to logic and reason, and with the Ravens injuries I just can't come up with anything that would not have been already addressed.
I mean if it were bones getting broke only. Drink more milk.
If it were muscle pulls, stretch more.
There is not enough of a common denominator with the injuries other than the the team the players just happen to be playing for.
*shrugs*
I don't know. It is just so bizarre. It really is.
Maybe Harbs didn't click "like" on facebook for that kid with cancer and now the team is paying the price.
BloodRaven
MVP
Theres two "scientific" reasons that players get injured, either theyre made of glass like Urban, Camp, Gillmore etc or its a freak injury.
I know fairly recently UPenn was identifying a possible genetic link in players who are more injury prone. Could be pretty revolutionary to sports if they find a link.
BloodRaven
MVP
Its absolutely genetic, some players are far more prone to injury than others yet we still draft them and keep them here for 4 years. If we bring in a guy like Stanley (who if I recall correctly never missed a game for Notre Dame) and hes been dinged up, well you cant account for that. What you can account for is perrenial salary cap thieves like Urban and Camp, we know better yet theyre still here producing nothing.
i dunno but it might have been nice having one of our backup 5 techs active - both wormley and kaufusi havent done a thing and we needed at least 1 of them to come in after urban went down
Jernigan didn't do much with Brandon Williams next to him. Whats to say that he would have done anything with him not in the lineup. Jernigan was way overrated by some. We did hold Fournette to 3.5 yards per carry without BWill on the field, but we had a lot less pressure on Bortles this week as opposed to the previous two weeks.