NFL Week 7 -- I Goff at your Darnold

[jr/shotglass]

I've always wondered about the percentage of players on the offensive-defensive lines with CTE and/or repetitive consussive issues vs the glory boys.

Linemen smash heads almost every play, especially the interior guys. Those build up. But it always seems like we're hearing about the receivers, backs, linebackers and QBs with issues. Would be interesting to see any percentages by position group.

Think about it. Soccer players get CTE from repeated headers. These guys are bashing heads 50 times a day or more.

 

[Webster]

Amazing how exactly one poster on these threads manage to lose their mind pretty much every week.

 

[swingline]

Bring back Merton "Long Neck" Hanks and his helmet, which I couldn't find a picture of so maybe I'm thinking of someone else.

 

[outofplace]

Amazing how exactly one poster on these threads manage to lose their mind pretty much every week.

Mocking you for being a whiny fanboy is losing my mind? Sure lol

By the way, thank you for distracting from Myles Garrett's idiocy, the discussion that was actually worth having.

 

[outofplace]

I've always wondered about the percentage of players on the offensive-defensive lines with CTE and/or repetitive consussive issues vs the glory boys.

Linemen smash heads almost every play, especially the interior guys. Those build up. But it always seems like we're hearing about the receivers, backs, linebackers and QBs with issues. Would be interesting to see any percentages by position group.

Pardon me for being a little Pittsburgh-focused on this, but one of the early studies of brain injuries in football players were done in connection with the Steelers. It was either late '70s or early '80s. Also, the doctor who first discovered CTE was working in the Pittsburgh Coroner's office at the time. In fact, he first noticed something off when he examined the body of Mike Webster after his death.

Just anecdotally, there are way too many former Steelers linemen who have had CTE or other brain injuries. Webster was one. So was Terry Long, who committed suicide. They found signs of CTE in Justin Strzelczyk, who went through severe behavioral changes and ended up being killed in an accident after leading police on a high-speed chase on the New York State Thruway. There are others, and I'm sure fans of other teams can come up with examples there, too.

 

[outofplace]

Shrug. I'd still rather see precautions being taken rather than doing what's been done forever.

I tend to agree, but if the helmets don't actually offer any additional protection but give the players the illusion of improved safety, that could also be a problem.

 

[Starman]

You'd think the manufacturers trying to sell the pillow helmets would be doing studies 24/7 to come up with experimental evidence to help sell 'em.

 

[outofplace]

You'd think the manufacturers trying to sell the pillow helmets would be doing studies 24/7 to come up with experimental evidence to help sell 'em.

Maybe, or perhaps they know any study is going to show that they really don't do much, so it's better to perpetuate the illusion of increased safety.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

I know how to do that when the situation warrants it. I mostly play nice these days, but sad little Jets fan didn't want to play nice.

Get over yourself. It's a darn football game. You started this. Stop it.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Mocking you for being a whiny fanboy is losing my mind? Sure lol

By the way, thank you for distracting from Myles Garrett's idiocy, the discussion that was actually worth having.

 

[Liut]

I've always wondered about the percentage of players on the offensive-defensive lines with CTE and/or repetitive consussive issues vs the glory boys.

Linemen smash heads almost every play, especially the interior guys. Those build up. But it always seems like we're hearing about the receivers, backs, linebackers and QBs with issues. Would be interesting to see any percentages by position group.

The late Kent Hull once told me about a study done by the Rochester (NY) Institute of Technology.
It somehow calculated that, on average, every play Kent was involved in was tantamount to a 35 mph automobile collision.
Now, Kent was a center. He said the speeds per hour were much higher for RBs and LBs ... which would seem to make sense.
Still, repetitive 35 mph car wrecks are going to tear you up in a hurry.
Kent died at 50.

 

[Starman]

Maybe, or perhaps they know any study is going to show that they really don't do much, so it's better to perpetuate the illusion of increased safety.

They're already being sold on the premise of being beneficial for safety. With CTE being more and more in the news every day you would think EVERY helmet manufacturer would be working nonstop to develop more protective helmets, whether they're the Kazoo style pillow helmets or whatever.