How worried are people with injuries?

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I'm not too worried about injuries. They're going to happen and i don't think we're seeing more injuries, rather, I think we're seeing a more Belichickian approach - that is: the default is injured and they cross healthy players off the list. I think Fox is - well - fox like in his secretive approach to injuries and media reports.


I also don't think Fox is willing to jeopardize players long term health over pre-season games or practice.

Still, I am worried about positional depth. We have some positions - TE, DB, OL - that are very thin looking and we all know - or can assume based on recent history - that players at those positions are going to be on the injury report come reg season.

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Aug 23, 2016 10:42:55 GMT -6 @soulman said:

Aug 23, 2016 4:54:25 GMT -6 riczaj01 said:

Something I didn't know, but the area that SF is built on is Chicago wetlands transformed. It helps to understand, beyond the fact that they are in a cold shitty enviornment for grass, why that stuff just can never take hold.
The city won't do anything about grass to turf b/c then they lose FIFA soccer which has to be played on natural grass.

The CPD has said they will install any type of playing surface the Bears ask for because they're the primary tenant.  It's the Bears who keep insisting they want to stick with natural grass.  There is a huge soccer stadium out in Bridgeview already.  That's where they're playing soccer isn't it?

www.toyotapark.com/

Yes, but I don't think they have FIFA games there.

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Aug 23, 2016 11:10:47 GMT -6 @belliot said:

I'm not too worried about injuries. They're going to happen and i don't think we're seeing more injuries, rather, I think we're seeing a more Belichickian approach - that is: the default is injured and they cross healthy players off the list. I think Fox is - well - fox like in his secretive approach to injuries and media reports.


I also don't think Fox is willing to jeopardize players long term health over pre-season games or practice.

Still, I am worried about positional depth. We have some positions - TE, DB, OL - that are very thin looking and we all know - or can assume based on recent history - that players at those positions are going to be on the injury report come reg season.

I'm hoping that's it too.  By now I think they have a pretty good handle on who among the vets they like and who the might prefer to keep.  With the rookies I would not put it past that crafty bastard to be holding a few he would like to move to the PS after final cut down out just so other teams can't evaluate them properly and he can get them through waivers or he stashes them on the IR for this year.

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Aug 23, 2016 11:21:17 GMT -6 shark86 said:

Aug 23, 2016 10:42:55 GMT -6 @soulman said:

The CPD has said they will install any type of playing surface the Bears ask for because they're the primary tenant.  It's the Bears who keep insisting they want to stick with natural grass.  There is a huge soccer stadium out in Bridgeview already.  That's where they're playing soccer isn't it?

www.toyotapark.com/

Yes, but I don't think they have FIFA games there.

Could well be Shark.  I really don't know much about soccer at all but I know about that soccer stadium because it's out in my old neck of the woods.