What is it with hamstring injuries?

by Kirkendall on Oct 30, 2008 3:48 PM EDT in Injury Comment 2 comments

After the news that Dexter Jackson went on Injured Reserve because of a hamstring injury, I realized that Jackson's injury is becoming a trend. In fact, along with Jackson, Herana-Daze Jones, Reagan Maui'a, Dede Dorsey, have all been lost for the season because of a hamstring. That's four of 11 (13 if you're counting the injury-waived players). Admittedly, I don't know the overall rate for hamstring injuries across the league, but I'm sure it's not as high. I understand the difference between a sore hamstring and a truly injured hamstring and it seems like our team has the most injured (not just sore) hamstrings.

Jamar Fletcher and Kenny Watson have missed time because of a hamstring problem and Brandon Johnson, T.J. Houshmandzadeh, Chris Perry, and Johnathan Joseph has showed up on injury reports because of a hamstring; though they've played through it.

On the latest injury report, Jonathan Fanene was added as the latest hamstring injury. That's nearly a fifth of the team that's dealt with some hamstring problem through eight games this season.

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I remember last season Amhad Brooks, and another linebacker, possibly Schlegel or Marshall both had groin pulls against the Browns last year when we gave up 51.
This year we have a rash of hamstring injuries.
It’s almost like our conditioning staff doesn’t know what they are doing and they forget to have certain position groups do all of their stretching before some games.

Would it shock anyone if we had an understaffed strength and condition department?

by R.F. Mehl on Oct 30, 2008 4:18 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Ya think?

Yeah, honestly, that’s my theory too: that among the other mis-staffed aspects of Mike Brown’s Underachievement Emporium, we have a strength and conditioning department that could use a complete overhaul. We’re forgetting also that Rudi Johnson missed a significant amount of time last year due to a bum hammy that ultimately led to the demise of his tenure in Cincinnati.

by TheWalrus1971 on Oct 31, 2008 12:29 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs