It sure does. We have been a very unhealthy, injury prone team over the past 6 years. Only fools continue to make the same mistakes while expecting different results.

I would fire that staff today, if not 2 years ago...

Originally Posted by: play2win 

Explain Hawk, Explain Tramon, explain the others players under the same conditioning program that are not injury prone or miss games. If you blame the conditioning program on the injuries, you must credit the conditioning program for those who do not get hurt.

What should the program do different? What does it do wrong? You say hire the best conditioning coach available, how do you know we don't have the best?

Originally Posted by: PackFanWithTwins 

I watched a few of the practices this summer and documented how poorly the Packers were stretching. They were going through the motions, not actually stretching. I do NOT believe conditioning is the cause for the injuries or directly correlated. However, I do think improper stretching does lead to pulled muscles such as hamstrings.

I also attribute the NFL wide increase in injuries to the the dramatically less contact players can experience via practice.


We expect players to go full speed in a violent sport with a minimalist preparation? I feel that is wrong. You often hear about players not being in football shape, well, with the regulations, how are players supposed to get into adequate football shape?

To exaggerate the point I'm making. You don't swim 2 two miles over and over and over again to prepare yourself to swim 30 miles.





If two out of 53 are the exception, then maybe there is merit to the rule.

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool