I get it, different injuries, different people, etc. I know an ACL injury is different from an Achilles, I get all of that. It's just frustrating to read this news while we have not a clue why our players aren't fully recovered and continue to have to deal with these injuries. There's got to be something we are doing that has caused us to have a crazier amount of injuries than I've ever seen. It's why I said, maybe we need a new strength and conditioning coach, Saunders should have been fired for the COVID spread last year anyhow but clearly strength & conditioning is starting to be a weak point.
i mean it's really only stanley and wolfe with setbacks everyone else we've expected to come back has returned
i agree that saunders should probably have been fired for the protocol breach last year - but the injury recovery process and after-care etc. has very little to do with saunders and the conditioning team and much more to do with Dr Andrew Tucker, Dr Tricia Bent-Goodley, Ron Medlin and the medical and athletic training team
obviously the injuries are frustrating but it just happens that teams get hit with them in different ways at different times - in 2019 (with the same strength and conditioning and also training and medical staffs) we were basically the healthiest team in the league and this year we're probably the least healthy - there's a whole lot of luck involved
in fact saunders was the guy who came in and revolutionised the strength and conditioning department after his predecessor was still set in some pretty old dinosaur-based practices and we had a ton of flexibility and soft-tissue injuries that saunders helped massively reduce almost instantly
i dont like him for being an asshole but he's undoubtedly great at his job (if he wasnt there's no way they would have brought him back either)