Dynasty

[mraynrand]

Not enough free weights.

If not that, then too many free weights.

[Guiness]

I thought Gullickson was the fall guy for Harrell's injury.

IIRC, Redman was pretty squared away.

Don't know about the new guy.

I also thought that they'd ditched the stupid machines under Gullickson.

Ya, Gullickson got rid of the Nautilus fad that seemed to have infected a lot of NFL weight rooms. He's in St-Louis now.

[George Cumby]

Well, here's a vid of the weight room from '09, not too many machines:

[rbaloha1]

I thought Gullickson was the fall guy for Harrell's injury.

IIRC, Redman was pretty squared away.

Don't know about the new guy.

I also thought that they'd ditched the stupid machines under Gullickson.

Musical chairs are not good.

Wasn't there a time recently the Packers were having numerous hamstrings issues attributed to training methods?

[Patler]

Wasn't there a time recently the Packers were having numerous hamstrings issues attributed to training methods?

Attributed by who to their training methods? The Packers themselves?
Speculated by fans here and elsewhere, perhaps.

[sharpe1027]

The thing with the injuries is that they are all over the place: backs, concussions, hands, knees, hamstrings, flu, ankles, hips, shoulders, collarbones, etc. I find it difficult to believe that poor training could be the cause of so many different injuries.

I think maybe they are being too physical. Yeah, that's it. If the Packers played less physical, then they would have less injuries.

[denverYooper]

The thing with the injuries is that they are all over the place: backs, concussions, hands, knees, hamstrings, flu, ankles, hips, shoulders, collarbones, etc. I find it difficult to believe that poor training could be the cause of so many different injuries.

I think maybe they are being too physical. Yeah, that's it. If the Packers played less physical, then they would have less injuries.

Everyone knows that playing more physically results in fewer injuries. I think McGinn wrote an article wherein he assigned each team a physicality rating and then showed a clear linear trend between that physicality rating and the number of injuries. His figures also showed an R^2 of 0.95 between his patented eliteness rating and that physicality rating.

[Cheesehead Craig]

Everyone knows that playing more physically results in fewer injuries. I think McGinn wrote an article wherein he assigned each team a physicality rating and then showed a clear linear trend between that physicality rating and the number of injuries. His figures also showed an R^2 of 0.95 between his patented eliteness rating and that physicality rating.

That still doesn't explain the unanswered question though: Why is the rum gone?

[pbmax]

I think hammies were on ongoing thing in one year and M3 changed the practice patterns to allow more rest and recovery to account for fatigue injuries.

Shoulders were another pattern and that happened over two years I think. Not sure if that ever got addressed. As of now, the only pattern is Matthews hamstring, which apparently is strung like suspension bridge. Or a violin bow. Or a Nyjer Morgan kite strng. Sorry, I am not a structural engineer so that's the best I got.

[sharpe1027]

I think hammies were on ongoing thing in one year and M3 changed the practice patterns to allow more rest and recovery to account for fatigue injuries.

Shoulders were another pattern and that happened over two years I think. Not sure if that ever got addressed. As of now, the only pattern is Matthews hamstring, which apparently is strung like suspension bridge. Or a violin bow. Or a Nyjer Morgan kite strng. Sorry, I am not a structural engineer so that's the best I got.

Pad level addressed that.

[mraynrand]

I think hammies were on ongoing thing in one year and M3 changed the practice patterns to allow more rest and recovery to account for fatigue injuries.

Shoulders were another pattern and that happened over two years I think. Not sure if that ever got addressed. As of now, the only pattern is Matthews hamstring, which apparently is strung like suspension bridge. Or a violin bow. Or a Nyjer Morgan kite strng. Sorry, I am not a structural engineer so that's the best I got.

tacoma narrows bridge

[Freak Out]

They all had to get off the juice once they got to the NFL.

[pbmax]

Pad level addressed that.

Good point. And extra good (read: low) pad level puts those hamstrings at risk. Which is why Matthews is a great leverage player with hamstrings made out of Gainesburger.

[Smeefers]

why are the packers continually unlucky?

Pretty much. There's always a finger to point, but there's never any kind of hard evidence you can slap on the table to prove why we've gotten injured more than other teams. We can make wild speculation about the cause of it, but in reality each and every injury has a specific reason why it happened. They all can't be traced back to one point. Someone landed wrong, someone used a poor technique, someone's foot got caught on the shitty soldier field. Guys get hurt, there's no rhyme or reason behind it and to attempt to assign a trainer with some mythical power to prevent all the injuries is an injustice.