Another Chicago Bears Injury Proves Worse Than Team Let On

1 would wonder if a good yoga regiment might help with the team remain flexible. I am not sure if they still do the old style of stretches, butkus3595 would know better but with the size and speed of the league just touching your toes a couple of times don't help much lol

LOL...yeah...the cowboys totally revamped their warm ups when they figured out the stuff they were doing from 1975 didn't work any more. I have no problem with yoga...a lot of my guys do it...but like everything else there can be too much of a good thing. You don't want them to become hyper mobile either.

I think it's a multi layered problem. A lot of these coaches are still stuck in the old school mentality where they're using training camp to "get guys in shape"...the only problem is these guys already come in in great shape. They've been sprinting and conditioning all off season, they've been running routes multiple times a week, etc plus lifting. They come in for the most part primed and ready to go...and then you put them into over drive in conditions that in no way mimic game conditions. Thats just a recipe for disaster. Add into the fact that a lot of these guys, in my opinion, just lift too many damn weights. You look at some of the stuff these guys are doing it's just meat head bullshit. Case in point...JJ Watt is done for the year, and maybe more because he rushed himself back and felt the need to film himself doing dumb ass shit in the weight room so he could show everyone how hard he was working to come back. Thats a dumb meat head mentality. I think a large portion of the population just doesn't understand how taxing sprint work is on the body, how taxing jumps are on the body. Add in all the injuries these guys incur and the effects that has on their alignment...it's amazing even more guys aren't hurt.

So to sum my rant up...yeah...I think they could all use more flexibility and mobility work. I think more of them should take advantage of massage as a means of recovery. I think they should be more mindful of what they need in regards to what is going to keep them on the field, meaning do they need more strength work(Which the answer is probably no because they wouldn't be in the league if they were overly weak)? Do I need more speed(Who doesn't? And by the way, speed work will influence strength immensely)?

Sorry if that was all over the place.

But it wasn't or at least not to me.  It answered some of my questions.

Maybe this is why there are problems.  Pace hires a high tech training staff who conditions players a certain way and then "old school" Foxy gets them in camp or OTAs and frustrates all of this carefully prepared training by the way he runs his practices.

Guys get hurt, trainers and med staff say if you play him it'll only get worse, they sit out, Fox fumes but can't do anything about if because Pace runs that part of the program and he can't over rule the medical staff. I've heard some frustration and anger in his comment at times when he discusses injuries.

In his hey day the shoot the guys up and they practice and play but they can't do that as freely any longer or at least the Bears won't.  There's some good logic to connect to what you posted butkus, thanks.

  So I guess these younger NCAA coaches that I thought was baby'n the players a bit might just in fact be onto something. I imagine the facilities in the Universities are much more prepared for injuries then NFL teams? How do they compare when you look at how technically advanced they are?