This discussion is just subjective....but I would say it is hard to make a comparison of past football injuries to the current situation in the NFL...one glaring reason is 40 years ago there was hardly any media coverage...now if a player has a hangnail it's on ESPN an hour after it happened...but I will say that conditioning now is light years better that it was 40 years ago.Clint, I know what you mean about not being able to avoid 'some' injuries.
But the ones related to a lack of conditioning & fatigue is what I'm referring to. Those you could do something about!
Ya, I know how do you differentiate between them?.. sort of subjective.
There's a past discussion in this thread, somewhere, sort of related to this. That's about how the players are big, faster.... blah blah blah blah blah. But the things like ligaments, tendons, bones are now more prior to injury than in the past.
It sure seemed that going back say 40+ years, there weren't the volume of guys hurt like today
I'm not so sure that back in the day is much different getting ready in the locker room