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Age vs Wear & Tear. This writer gives D-Lo the thumbs up.


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I think that saying that "he is not anywhere near the same" is just not taking the relative failure of the  O-line into account.

 

i think its a combination of both.

 

dwill is not as bad as people claim and the oline isn't as bad as people claim.

 

the combination of the two gave us what we had last year.

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Everyone is talking about college carries, but don't seem to be taking youth into account.  When you are young, you heal a whole helluva lot faster without ill effects for the future.  You are also playing against athletes who are considerably less talented, less quick, and less strong.  To me, it's an apples to oranges comparison.

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yea but its still not like they don't take a beating in college...its just not as much of a beating but its still a beating.

 

i look at deangelo last year and its obvious his age is showing. i still think he can be somewhat productive but we obviously need better RB's and O-lineman.

 

tbf from the pics of ota's he does look like he hit the weight room hard this offseason

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I am very interested to see how Dengelo's season plays out since this will be a good look at how splitting carries in the NFL can affect a player's career aside from lower stats. if he shows that he is still capable of carrying the load at a professional level then we could see more of this as teams to use it as a way to reduce spending at the position while also extending the careers of running backs in the NFL.

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i think that having other ball carriers share the load has added some more mileage that we probably wouldn't otherwise have gotten out of him, but yeah.....he came into the league with a ton of mileage already.

 

and a lack of mileage still doesn't detract from the fact that he's at an age that his body wears down quicker, is more prone to injury, and takes longer to recover.

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i think that having other ball carriers share the load has added some more mileage that we probably wouldn't otherwise have gotten out of him, but yeah.....he came into the league with a ton of mileage already.

 

and a lack of mileage still doesn't detract from the fact that he's at an age that his body wears down quicker, is more prone to injury, and takes longer to recover.

 

Sorry. I just don't think the body says "Hey, you're 30. It's time to wear down."  How you treat your body plays a role in its relative age and durability.

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Sorry. I just don't think the body says "Hey, you're 30. It's time to wear down."  How you treat your body plays a role in its relative age and durability.

 

it essentially does. sure, how you take care of your body plays a role, but the lifestyle and workout habits/routine of a pro football player isn't exactly healthy or good for a body. it essentially speeds up the aging and wearing down process.

 

when you get to a certain age, though, your body just quits responding the way it used to and every year that passes you see a bigger change. it may not be adrastic change, but the change is still there and every year it's more noticeable. it's very few people, even in the nfl, who don't see much change.

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going from college to pros, I think they said he had one of the highest amount of touches in history.  But his rookie year he only had 121 attempts followed by 144 his second year.  His big year in 08 he increased to 273 in all 16 games and then 216 again in 09 in only 13 games.  He didnt have 200+ again since 09 til last season at 201.  In 2010 he only had 86 in 6 games so that injury kept him from probably getting 200+ again that year.

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it essentially does. sure, how you take care of your body plays a role, but the lifestyle and workout habits/routine of a pro football player isn't exactly healthy or good for a body. it essentially speeds up the aging and wearing down process.

 

when you get to a certain age, though, your body just quits responding the way it used to and every year that passes you see a bigger change. it may not be adrastic change, but the change is still there and every year it's more noticeable. it's very few people, even in the nfl, who don't see much change.

 

I agree in a general sense that as we age, we slow down. I must disagree about workouts though.  Workouts, a good diet, and a generally healthy lifestyle keep a body young.  As for athletes, it's the injuries, the hits---the trauma which causes the problems as we age physically which gets back to the point: sometimes age is just a number---perhaps maybe not by decades, but certainly by a few years here or there. 

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it essentially does. sure, how you take care of your body plays a role, but the lifestyle and workout habits/routine of a pro football player isn't exactly healthy or good for a body. it essentially speeds up the aging and wearing down process.

 

when you get to a certain age, though, your body just quits responding the way it used to and every year that passes you see a bigger change. it may not be adrastic change, but the change is still there and every year it's more noticeable. it's very few people, even in the nfl, who don't see much change.

 

Agreed.

 

The list is very short for 1000 yard rushers after 30.  It's just one of those things.

 

It only takes a little bit of slowing down in the NFL before it's really noticeable, and you can't do the things that you once could.

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I agree in a general sense that as we age, we slow down. I must disagree about workouts though.  Workouts, a good diet, and a generally healthy lifestyle keep a body young.  As for athletes, it's the injuries, the hits---the trauma which causes the problems as we age physically which gets back to the point: sometimes age is just a number---perhaps maybe not by decades, but certainly by a few years here or there. 

 

i think that's true for moderate working out, but there's nothing moderate about the amount of conditioning that a professional athlete has to endure to keep their bodies in that shape.

 

they essentially abuse their bodies to get them to the place they need to be able to compete. they lift more and run more and do more work than the human body was meant to endure for long periods of time and because of that their bodies wear out at a faster rate. there is a line between what is a healthy workout regimen and an unhealthy one and pro athletes probably cross that line frequently. they aren't immune from the effects of increased cortisol that comes from too much stress (emotional or physical) which can result in poor sleeping habits, emotional state, your body's ability to repair itself from injury and illness, and puts you at risk of diabetes because of the raising of sugar levels.

 

it also takes a huge toll on bone strength and can wear out muscles and joints...just from overuse, which is what these elite athletes do. there's also a lot of problems, esp. long term, of muscle scarring on the heart and irregular heart rhythms.

 

the biggest thing for athletes like dwill, though, is the effect of constant training on his bones, muscles, and joints. the amount of weight that many of these guys bears isn't healthy for their body either.

 

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