How worried are people with injuries?

wow, really? that looks good on paper... hopefully this is his year, but its gonna be tough getting minutes

At this point I'd call my view on it more of a concern than outright fear or worry we'll be screwed again as a result of too many injuries to front line players and too little experienced depth. But my concern in colored by this.

Why is it we seem to have so many players experiencing the same type of injury? Why so many "hammy's" and other muscle and soft tissue related stuff? Is Fox just being overly cautious and allowing these guys to fully heal before sending them back out or are the injuries more serious than he lets on? His verbal claim is that players have to play with the little "owies" but that doesn't seem to be what's happening. So what's the real story?

If the condition of the Bears practice fields are not a contributing factor then what in the hell is Pace's high tech training and nutrition staff doing to prevent these types of injuries or worse yet are there methods contributing to them? This is year two of having more than our fair share of soft tissue injuries so there has to be an answer somewhere and someone needs to find it and fast. We don't have the depth to afford them.

We all know the playing surface at Soldier Field is an atrocity yet the Bears continue to resist making a change. Why? No one will convince me it didn't contribute to Grasu's injury and many other over the years. Continual re-sodding to combat the over use by the combination of the Bears games and CPD sponsored events has never worked long term.

I've been on the Grassmaster surface at Mile High and I think it's the perfect solution for teams who play their home games in temperate climate in an outdoor venue. Lambeau Field has the same playing surface. Green Bay has an even more hostile climate than Chicago and yet that field looks great in December, as does Mile High, while Soldier Field looks like a torn up rug in a 50 year old "fixer upper".

I've lived nearly my entire life in one of these three locations; Chicago, Green Bay, and Denver.  My grass won't grow after early November either and out here it's always been sod. So why in the blue hell do the Bears keep on insisting it's the safest playing surface when their own experience should tell them it isn't. Even the added team speed we're developing will not benefit as much playing on lousy sodded turf as it will playing on a hybrid playing surface like Grassmaster. Some days it looks to me like we aren't completely over being dumb yet.

Something I didn't know, but the area that SF is built on is Chicago wetlands transformed. It helps to understand, beyond the fact that they are in a cold shitty enviornment for grass, why that stuff just can never take hold.
The city won't do anything about grass to turf b/c then they lose FIFA soccer which has to be played on natural grass.

FIFA soccer has to be played on natural grass? hmmm I know some european clubs have artificial grass... weird