fulfilling prophecy.

mccaffrey about to be fucked up after the last 2-3 yrs at CAR.

conversely, being on a rb committee team fucks up your bread, but extends your health.

but the mythical 'every down back'... i would not have my kid play football nowadays. and DAMN SURE not RB.

back in the day, friend of mine was boys w/ the starting rb for a team that now has a generic name. he said his boy drank a fifth of jack on monday mornings just to deaden the pain enough to fully get out of bed and start his day.

think about that shit. (at same time, cats were popping the fk outta ibuprofen and shit that we found out is terrible for your liver). in college, they had a big ass sam's club bottle in the training room and we would literally get handfuls of advils before (and sometimes after practice).

i didn't really feel the effect / benefit of it but i'm so glad i never made that a habit.

shit is crazy.

per the threads up above, lineman is a dangerous assed position, too. think about the HoF center for pittsburgh who died and was one of the first recognized CTE cases. dude's brain was basically mush.

RB (and LB, which is its positional mirror) has some unique characteristics and dangers.

every position has its own inherent dangers and mitigations (i was a TE, so i got to see the the world as both a lineman and a receiver).

the high usage and the type of usage for RBs, however, in the current multi-year cycle, make it a particularly devalued position. (also, officiating trends, which are geared toward $$$ (don't kill our franchise qb) and, increasing, PR (don't decapitate my WR), afford protections to other positions that RBs don't get the advantage of).

granted, RBs do some vicious shit, like lowering their heads right before contact against a db or lb, that is also super dangerous. but if they run straight up, someone is coming for their crown, literally, so part of it is shoot first.

i find myself cringing a LOT more watching games than i ever used to, because i know how close players are to a devastating, life altering (or damn near ending ) hit on so many plays. especially the friendly fire joints, where multiple defenders converge on a tackle and a safety or lb damn near knocks his teammates block off.

i be thinking they are being extra and reckless, but truth is that their positional coach is probably digging in their ass in films session if they don't fly to the ball with suicidal abandon. there may be a handful of exceptions to this in the coaching world.


peace & blessings,

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