Without Reggie Bush, The Saints Will Have A Tough Time Against the Atlanta Falcons

I’M GLAD YOU FOUND THE SARCASM TONE TOO! I’ll edit it, my bad!

From the comment section:

What people will say is that he’s too small and thus injury prone…but the reality is that he really isn’t. His knee problem was the same knee that he never was given the time to really heal…but people don’t want to hear it.

In my mind, what you’re describing is one of the very few ways anyone CAN accurately be described as “injury prone”. Players who suffer a variety of unrelated injuries are NOT “injury prone”. Injuries happen all the time. More often than not, these players are just an extreme on the spectrum of random occurrence, just as Peyton Manning and probably several dozen more guys that no one ever associates with the topic represent the other end.

Two other exceptions: someone with a rare disorder, like golfer Casey Martin would be more prone to injury. To the best of my knowledge, there are no NFL players that fall under that category. Players whose running style is not congruent to their size and/or physics of the common tackle, i.e., little guys who don’t play little (Darren Sproles) and players who run too upright (Chris Brown). Sproles has yet to suffer a rash of injuries, but I feel confident that if he was used with more regularity, he would.

In summary, for the most part, no one is born with an inert knack for winding up on the sidelines. It just happens. The laundry list of guys like Brian Westbrook, Fred Taylor, Clinton Portis, etc., that we compile in our heads is nothing more than a visceral summary of that collective happenstance.

Some peoiple are just injury prone. From a Physiologic perspective it can have much to do with things like ligament reiliency, flexibility, reflexive reaction to physical trauma, ability to heal quickly, and things like nutrition and the way you take care of yourself can impact this in a big way. Some individuals produce more growth hormone naturally than others. This is HUGE. Your recovery time and ability to heal is so much augmented by this naturally occurring variance. We know this by testing and by seeing how much better individuals who supplement with Growth Hormone, GH precursors and Creatinine, etc fare. Somewhere after adolecense, Growth Hormone starts to decrease from a peak of say 700 ug/day to eventual adult status of 400ug/day. Where you are on the spectrum as far as closer to 700 or 400 can impact your injury risk greatly- whether it’s because you are older or because you are just an individual who secretes less GH naturally. So, your muscle mass, reaction time, flexibility and ability to recover from micro trauma as well as macro trauma is hugely affected.

Players like Ki Jana Carter are not just “unlucky.” They often have physiologic attributes that predispose them to injury. It can also even have to do with minor injuries suffered in Pop Warner, High School, College that predisposes a joint or area of the body to be weaker and less flexible/ resilient/strong.

It doesn’t “just happen.” There is an element of randomness but there is also a gradient of resiliency to injury that all of the factors I have mentioned and many more play a huge role in. Walter Payton was not just lucky- he was an abnormality that was hugely injury resistant. He was just very fortunate that he was born that way. He took many, many hits that would have sidelined many other players .

Most dynamic offense in the NFL. You make the first down . Oh Ok lets kick . Cuss I don’t trust my offense Bull CHIT !!! Lay it on me . Geaux Saints .

But didn’t want to say anything. I started to post it but then thought otherwise.