ChicagoRedskinsFan Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 I know injuries are part of life in the NFL. But does anyone else thinks it is ridiculous the number of injuries the Redskins suffer week after week? Even with the injuries to Portis and the o-line, our running game was doing pretty well recently. But now we lose yet another lineman and our backup RB. It's so disheartening when every game we are losing someone for the season. Do the Redskins have more than their share of injuries or is it my imagination? I've been thinking this ever since 1996 when a 7-1 start was derailed largely because we had no one left to throw the ball to. Why did this not happen to the Redskins of the 80's? Do we need new trainers? Or are the scouts not taking "injury prone" into consideration? And yet despite all our injuries, it's missed field goals that keeps us from winning in big-D. I don't know what to think about this team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman#21 Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 Skins have had alot of injuries this year, but their part of the game, for example today GB lost 2 of its best def players for the year, Kampman and Al Harris. So its part of the NFL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dallascrushers Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 yea injuries are part of the game...look at the Colts their d is injury riddled but still 10 and 0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenchBrunell Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 Teams that are outmatched are usually the ones that suffer the most injuries. It makes sense if you think about it.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadKarma Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 Cuz we are old and brittle, the rest of the NFL is moving towards more well rounded and younger rosters built through the draft while we bring in all the vets via free agency, the rest of the league is miles ahead of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warhead36 Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 Every team has injuries. The Colts secondary is decimated. Dallas lost their starting RT. Miami lost their All Pro RB. Good teams have quality depth and can make do with backups and good coaching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaryGreenMonk Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 unfortunately, it's because we got guys that aren't quite good enough, trying really hard to be good. and they get hurt in the process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAFGA Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 Haynesworth is always one play away from major injury. He is poorly conditioned, and his body type doesn't really scream fit as a fiddle. He is good at clogging the lanes and drawing double teams, but he burns out quickly. Haynesworth doesn't have anyone on this coaching staff (or front office for that matter) to push him to be better conditioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedlightG20 Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 Injuries happen all the time. But what happens here is that our backups aren't any good, so injuries to starters hurt that much more. There is a huge gap in talent between our starters and backups. Most of them are hardly serviceable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stwasm Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 IT's not so much injuries as it is we spend so much time and money on superstars and ignore the process of grooming back-ups and developing our own players that when injuries do strike, they strike us harder because there's no depth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselPwr44 Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 Old roster, out of shape players and soft camp = rash of injuries year in, year out. It all comes down to utilizing the draft and roster building. Not our GM's strong suit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Lloyd Christmas Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 every team in the NFL loses guys over the course of a season. our front office stupidly relies on injury prone and older players and fails to provide adequate backups for them. our oline was going to get injured, it was a given. guys like portis who have been abused will be injured. were no different than any other team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Lloyd Christmas Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 Old roster, out of shape players and soft camp = rash of injuries year in, year out.It all comes down to utilizing the draft and roster building. Not our GM's strong suit. the soft training camp thing is true too. i remember in TC time people were joking about how that would be used as an excuse if we started losing, but its true. the redskins culture is club med, not hard ass football. hopefully that changes with our new coach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightbird Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 It seems worse when it happens to us because our front office doesn't know what the word "depth" means. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuriousD Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 Every team has injuries. The Colts secondary is decimated. Dallas lost their starting RT. Miami lost their All Pro RB. Good teams have quality depth and can make do with backups and good coaching. What he said. There's no better example of why it is better to build through the draft than it is with high priced free-agents. :anon: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wdcredskins Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 I know injuries are part of life in the NFL. But does anyone else thinks it is ridiculous the number of injuries the Redskins suffer week after week? Even with the injuries to Portis and the o-line, our running game was doing pretty well recently. But now we lose yet another lineman and our backup RB. It's so disheartening when every game we are losing someone for the season. Do the Redskins have more than their share of injuries or is it my imagination? I've been thinking this ever since 1996 when a 7-1 start was derailed largely because we had no one left to throw the ball to. Why did this not happen to the Redskins of the 80's? Do we need new trainers? Or are the scouts not taking "injury prone" into consideration? And yet despite all our injuries, it's missed field goals that keeps us from winning in big-D. I don't know what to think about this team. same reasons why other teams get destroyed with injuries? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mi6 Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 Because we have prima donna's like Clinton Portis who don't like conditioning and practicising. And, then we get injury prone players like FAT ALBERT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyphenatedbren Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 Every team has injuries. The Colts secondary is decimated. Dallas lost their starting RT. Miami lost their All Pro RB. Good teams have quality depth and can make do with backups and good coaching.As a Colts fan I'm not upset by the injuries to the secondary. Bob Sanders is always hurt and getting to see a lot of Melvin Bullitt leads me to believe he wouldn't be a terrible replacement for Sanders. Both Jerraud Powers and Jacob Lacey have both done really well, by and large, in relief and I doubt we would have seen that if not for injuries.I will, however, be happy when Kelvin Hayden gets back from his injury. Depth in the secondary will be very nice because one more injury and they're really depleted back there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polywog999 Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 People get injured in the NFL. If you don't like it, use a first round pick on a good doctor. :doh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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