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God I want the regular season to start. I'm watching the fox live feed from camp this morning and it was eerily similar to watching those reporters in Viet Nam giving live updates on servicemen casualties.

Please someone get to the trainers and team doctors and shake them till they wake up and start fine-tooth combing the players for any sign of potential injury and help them train to avoid them.

My psyche can't handle another 7-9 season. Do it for me.

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Seriously dude. This **** is scaring me. We could end up having a worse defense than last year at the rate we are losing folks to injury. This is really bad.

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You guys slay me.

Relax..............

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Injuries suck, but we'll be better than last year still.

Calling it now - D will be ranked between #15 and #19.

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You are stressed because your lesson plans are not ready for the new school year.
I will send you an apple "teach".

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It seems to be every team is experiencing a laundry list of injuries in training camps this season ... it's almost like the "year of the hamstring".

Training camp & the preseason are like purgatory, you gotta' suffer through it to get to the joy of the regular season & the playoffs, :mrgreen:.

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Hey roger, hows your 18 game schedule idea looking now?

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It doesnt bother him at all-he doesn't give a damn about player safety.

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Maybe if you are lucky they will switch to flag football and then everybody will be getting rich without any risks whatsoever...and we, the fans, well...we will be so excited...especially when someone rips that flag off.

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Am I that transparent?

I believe that this newly negotiated workout schedule is the culprit. It has to be that players aren't in shape and/or fully stretched up to and during camp. It's never been this bad.

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Yoga for the win!

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I am sick of hearing about our injuries too. Can't TB & Carolina get a few?

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Now that my initial panic has resided, lets regroup.

We lost Butler - Pretty big loss but not a deal killer.

And we lost an aging 2-down DE that was probably gonna be replaced by Hicks, who will be a full time starter.

A veteran 2-down run stuffing DE shouldn't be that difficult to acquire after the cut downs. We can also shift a 3-tech DT over a gap and basically achieve the same thing.

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Well..... Considering the circumstances a 1 game season seems to be too much at this point.

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Some forget about the 2011 Championship Packers team who had 15 players placed on IR during the regular season including key losses to Grant & Finley. We have decent depth at most of the skill positions but it's just time for them to step up. TRUST AND BELIEVE.

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A football season is a war of attrition, starting the season with the same 53 as you end the season should never be an assumption or game plan.

Everyone must plan for the long haul.

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He is all about player safety, if it will potentially result in future lawsuits.

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They'll get hurt now, they'll get hurt later. My advice to myself and others is to start drinking heavily. Of course, that's usually my advice to myself and others.

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... you really can't get any better advice than that, :lol:.

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Bottoms up *******!