Scarlet ObsessioN said:

In today's press conference Rhule brought up the injury that Fidone took in 21, his first ACL injury. He prefaced it by saying no disrespect to the player that caused it. Obviously football is a violent sport and injuries happen.

With that said I can't help but wonder if at that level some guys are reckless. I wonder how often players get hurt because of a "dirty play" or at the very least a play that is undisciplined and careless. Is anyone aware of certain guys that have injured a teammate and it caused locker room issues?

I have found myself thinking many times the way people talk about that injury that it may have been one of those types of plays.

If I am grasping at straws, forgive me and call me a rahtard.

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slattimer said:

Well, I remember back during the Bo era during spring practice when Abdullah ended up spraining his MCL. It was during the coaches clinic spring practice. Back then, they had two practices open to the coaches.

All the coaches were spread all over the practice field, and Abdullah took a hit on the sideline by a walk-on and came up hurt. Pretty sure they feared the worst, and Bo blew a gasket. I thought that walk-on might die...or get cut on the spot....was it dirty...I don't think it was, but was it stupid...definitely IMO.

There's instances of dirty play that has caused injury...pretty sure it was Warren Sapp who lit up an OL on an interception and the dude fractured a bunch of vertebrae or disks in his back. I think that was the beginning of the end of blindside blocks.

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slattimer said:

Well, I remember back during the Bo era during spring practice when Abdullah ended up spraining his MCL. It was during the coaches clinic spring practice. Back then, they had two practices open to the coaches.

All the coaches were spread all over the practice field, and Abdullah took a hit on the sideline by a walk-on and came up hurt. Pretty sure they feared the worst, and Bo blew a gasket. I thought that walk-on might die...or get cut on the spot....was it dirty...I don't think it was, but was it stupid...definitely IMO.

There's instances of dirty play that has caused injury...pretty sure it was Warren Sapp who lit up an OL on an interception and the dude fractured a bunch of vertebrae or disks in his back. I think that was the beginning of the end of blindside blocks.

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turek420845 said:

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slattimer said:

Well, I remember back during the Bo era during spring practice when Abdullah ended up spraining his MCL. It was during the coaches clinic spring practice. Back then, they had two practices open to the coaches.

All the coaches were spread all over the practice field, and Abdullah took a hit on the sideline by a walk-on and came up hurt. Pretty sure they feared the worst, and Bo blew a gasket. I thought that walk-on might die...or get cut on the spot....was it dirty...I don't think it was, but was it stupid...definitely IMO.

There's instances of dirty play that has caused injury...pretty sure it was Warren Sapp who lit up an OL on an interception and the dude fractured a bunch of vertebrae or disks in his back. I think that was the beginning of the end of blindside blocks.

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turek420845 said:

Just being funny because it said sensitive, but there is nothing sensitive about it.

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...TrueColors... said:

The overwhelming majority of teammates injuring teammates when I was coaching soccer happened in the preseason when the guy who was 21st on your travel roster (we traveled with 20) was trying to make the team. It wasn’t dirty. It wasn’t necessarily careless. It was a play he’d try to make in a game that he probably shouldn’t in practice.

I mean I get it. I’ve been in situations before where I’m doing everything I can to make a team. So it’s unfortunate. But guys on the team can generally distinguish between “dirty” and maybe just overly aggressive for what the setting called for.

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ZJSARENOTFREE said:

Yep. I feel like every team has these few kids. At my high school we had a kid we called 300%. Was a terrible athlete, but went full throttle even during walk-throughs. People were always like wtf guy. Even the coaches would be like bring it down to 150 at least. Can't tell you the amount of times people dodged injury because of this kid. The college level might make a little more sense, but always those types of people on teams.

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Scarlet ObsessioN said:

In today's press conference Rhule brought up the injury that Fidone took in 21, his first ACL injury. He prefaced it by saying no disrespect to the player that caused it. Obviously football is a violent sport and injuries happen.

With that said I can't help but wonder if at that level some guys are reckless. I wonder how often players get hurt because of a "dirty play" or at the very least a play that is undisciplined and careless. Is anyone aware of certain guys that have injured a teammate and it caused locker room issues?

I have found myself thinking many times the way people talk about that injury that it may have been one of those types of plays.

If I am grasping at straws, forgive me and call me a rahtard.

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...TrueColors... said:

The overwhelming majority of teammates injuring teammates when I was coaching soccer happened in the preseason when the guy who was 21st on your travel roster (we traveled with 20) was trying to make the team. It wasn’t dirty. It wasn’t necessarily careless. It was a play he’d try to make in a game that he probably shouldn’t in practice.

I mean I get it. I’ve been in situations before where I’m doing everything I can to make a team. So it’s unfortunate. But guys on the team can generally distinguish between “dirty” and maybe just overly aggressive for what the setting called for.

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