Rhule wants a Sports Science department. What is it?

[PhillyB]

31 minutes ago, Mitchl13 said:

Nope. I would be fired within a day when I told Tepper to stay in his lane.

edgy

[Happy Panther]

The NBA has been doing this for a while just  like they have been using analytics for a while. Sports medicine is about limiting and mitigating injuries which any owner should be interested in. How much you play, how much you train, how you train how you recover, how you prepare and how you avoid injury in the first place. Then add in diet and medicine.

There will always be dolts that say you can't win games with this stuff! Eat a banana lol. Stop.

No these things are supplements to coaching and execution. We are hoping to gain a 1% advantage or whatever on Sundays.

[Rubi]

8 hours ago, zacka77ack said:

You don't know this yet. Just because Hurney is still here doesn't mean his responsibilities are the same.

Yes we do

[d-dave]

On 1/7/2020 at 10:55 AM, TheWiz said:

Gotta be honest... been binge watching interviews of him and checking out what he brings. 

And I think it really works. It's gonna be a process.... but I think I'm sold.  

Take a drink!  I love that he's already got a vision and the steps to get to the end.  Now to see if it works.  I'm optimistic right now.

On 1/7/2020 at 2:38 PM, Happy Panther said:

The NBA has been doing this for a while just  like they have been using analytics for a while. Sports medicine is about limiting and mitigating injuries which any owner should be interested in. How much you play, how much you train, how you train how you recover, how you prepare and how you avoid injury in the first place. Then add in diet and medicine.

There will always be dolts that say you can't win games with this stuff! Eat a banana lol. Stop.

No these things are supplements to coaching and execution. We are hoping to gain a 1% advantage or whatever on Sundays.

I would think that for the millions you invest in the players, you'd want to make sure you get your money's worth out of them.  You want them playing on Sundays, and anything to get those guys out there and healthy on Sunday should be a good investment.  A lot of games come down to a few plays where an inch goes a long way.  If our guys can be just a little bit fresher to make that play, I'm all for it.

These guys are high performance athletes who do lots of work to their bodies for our entertainment.  The old school "rub some dirt in your aspirin/banana with ice" stuff should be left in the times when guys were smoking in the locker rooms.  NFL Athletes today are just a different breed compared to the guys who smoked cigars and drank bourbon on the sideline.

[Moorgan]

On ‎1‎/‎7‎/‎2020 at 2:06 PM, Mitchl13 said:

Unless we are talking about blood doping, I find it head to believe that these guys will hear something they haven’t heard before. 
 

 

There's a documentary on Netflix that @Jeremy Igo may have seen where they did blood tests on 3 Dolphin players in relation to what they ate. Results were minor but the point is that if changing any/all aspects of the approach to game day through a holistic (or if you don't like that buzz word...if you just look at every damn thing including diet and sleep etc) and that translates to ANY competitive edge, then it was worth it.

In the end, it costs nothing but Tepper money (which is not a thing) and it COULD translate in to an edge and it should surely translate into healthier more focused athletes. Getting the whole team to approach diet and sleep (as an example) from a business perspective leading up to gameday would be an example of focus. And that's something all by itself.

[1of10Charnatives]

4 minutes ago, Moorgan said:

There's a documentary on Netflix that @Jeremy Igo may have seen where they did blood tests on 3 Dolphin players in relation to what they ate. Results were minor but the point is that if changing any/all aspects of the approach to game day through a holistic (or if you don't like that buzz word...if you just look at every damn thing including diet and sleep etc) and that translates to ANY competitive edge, then it was worth it.

In the end, it costs nothing but Tepper money (which is not a thing) and it COULD translate in to an edge and it should surely translate into healthier more focused athletes. Getting the whole team to approach diet and sleep (as an example) from a business perspective leading up to gameday would be an example of focus. And that's something all by itself.

Probably get some placebo effect regardless would be my guess.

[KatsAzz]

It is great to have a head coach that wants a sport science department that should help keep players healthy and the richest owner in the NFL that will see it happens.