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2026/2027 NFL Thread
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MC BumSlap
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Shannahan's offense is not friendly to the health of RBs and TEs due to the outside zone blocking schemes.
One game means a lot in the NFL. There are only 17 games overall and six of those are conference games. It’s not like MLB, NHL, or NBA where the number of games is insane. Seattle won but I think SF is the better team of those two, and AZ should be two wins for the 9ers.
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In track, we know that athletes are most likely to get injured when they get to a state of over-training, when their recovery can't keep up with the damage they do to their cells from games and practice. There are 2 causes of this: 1. Insufficient pre-season preparation to strengthen the tissues and joints to a level that can withstand higher intensity (speed) forces as they get into a season, 2. Insufficient recovery, both daily and programming in a recovery week every 4-6 weeks during season.
Tissues break down when practicing or competing, without a recovery week you go backwards throughout the season until micro tears and micro fractures become macro tears and macro fractions, then one day you're jogging off the field and a knee gives out or something else.
The Niners have a long history of not properly ensuring recovery, that is overwhelmingly clear by their record of injuries over many years.
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Another factor, and maybe more causal, is PEDs. Specifically, those that promote muscle hypertrophy while thinning the very connective tissue holding these bundles of strength onto bone.
Think of it as installing a high-performance engine without strengthening frame or transmission. Something's got to give. And it does.
Think of it as installing a high-performance engine without strengthening frame or transmission. Something's got to give. And it does.
Niners replaced the strength & conditioning coaches due to injuries a few years ago and revamp their approach. It doesn't seem to have made much of a difference. I doubt there is some kind of S & C trick or method that they are missing because that would quickly spread to all teams.
It has to be a combo of player age, randomness (i.e. bad luck) or something Shanahan is doing or not doing since it has gone on for so long. I don't know what "outside zone blocking schemes" means but it would be interesting to see if other teams that use that method have higher injury rates. Also, Shanahan isn't much into "load management" since he will run CMC or Kittle into the ground in the heat of battle on game day if needed. Of course they want the rock so they are happy to go along with that but part of the coach's job is to protect players from themselves.
It has to be a combo of player age, randomness (i.e. bad luck) or something Shanahan is doing or not doing since it has gone on for so long. I don't know what "outside zone blocking schemes" means but it would be interesting to see if other teams that use that method have higher injury rates. Also, Shanahan isn't much into "load management" since he will run CMC or Kittle into the ground in the heat of battle on game day if needed. Of course they want the rock so they are happy to go along with that but part of the coach's job is to protect players from themselves.