You're not kidding. When he was here we had very few significant injuries. Tripping the opposing player may have been a dirtbag move but firing the guy for it was a cowardly response to media criticism that ultimately hurt our ball club.
Last night, Tomlin got praised for his "unintentional" near tripping and td saving sideline antics. Water under the bridge for Tomlin. The media sucks.
There's more injuries..period. I think there's a few contributing factors. 1. Drugs. Even the legal stuff. I can't imagine pumping yourself full of various things to make you bigger, faster, stronger does good things to the body. 2. Players are bigger, faster, and stronger. They hit with a lot of force. 3. NFL players are a business. Each and everyone of them. They don't take risks on their paycheck not recovering. That doesn't affect some guy getting a broken leg, but that soreness or tightness in the knee may have been ignored in the past. It's not anymore.
If it's the WRs pulling hammy [which happened last year] I'm with you, but other than that, Jets were pretty unlucky with freak injuries. That aside, Jets do need better position coaches. I'll hold my judgement on David Lee [I think he's better than Cav the sack of shit, but then I haven't found any QB that flourished under his tutelage.] Anthony Lynn seems solid, but then the whole offensive crew goes down the trash can, starting with Mike Devlin [OL], Steve Hagan [TE] and Sanjay Lal [WR]. It also amazes me when I see Seahawks just grab anybody off the street and plug into their secondary - and boom, he performs! That has a lot to do with Pete Carroll knowing how to spot a talent for the back four [1] and the position coach knowing how to make the talent useful in a hurry [2] Last time I checked, Seahawks secondary coach was Kris Richard, who played for Carroll as a DB, then became DB coach for him later. He started coaching for Pete during Carroll's USC days, then followed him to Seattle. I have to wonder if Ryan can do the same with DBs - he certainly has done much like this with front seven players, i.e. Bart Scott and Damon Harrison.
