Buddy has his work cut out for him

[cardsfanmd]

Am I the only one mystified by the amount of, albeit mainly minor, injuries that we have? I can’t remember a preseason where we were so nicked up. This is especially bizarre considering how toned-down training camps are these days. Do we have a soft team, is it just players these days or is the team being ridiculously over-cautious? If this trend continues, we’ll be starting people off the street by week 3.

 

[SECTION 11]

Who’s buddy?

 

[Syracusecards]

Who’s buddy?

Morris, the trainer.

 

[Jetstream Green]

I would imagine all teams as a whole are treating their players, particularly starters, with the same kid gloves since the advent of 17 games and possible playoffs

 

[tnmike]

Am I the only one mystified by the amount of, albeit mainly minor, injuries that we have? I can’t remember a preseason where we were so nicked up. This is especially bizarre considering how toned-down training camps are these days. Do we have a soft team, is it just players these days or is the team being ridiculously over-cautious? If this trend continues, we’ll be starting people off the street by week 3.

Yes you must be the only one mystified

 

[PDXChris]

It could always be worse!

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[Chris_Sanders]

It could always be worse!

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Yeah Offensive Line are already getting decimated. It's why Ford was a good pick up at the time.

 

[tnmike]

Seems like yesterday because it was

 

[Stout]

Am I the only one mystified by the amount of, albeit mainly minor, injuries that we have? I can’t remember a preseason where we were so nicked up. This is especially bizarre considering how toned-down training camps are these days. Do we have a soft team, is it just players these days or is the team being ridiculously over-cautious? If this trend continues, we’ll be starting people off the street by week 3.

I'm not mystified, merely dismayed. We are not in a good place with injuries, which, given our lack of depth (or starters) at key spots, makes for grim reading.

 

[SoonerLou]

It could always be worse!

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Might have lucked out with Ford. Could see the Cowboys trading for him and then moving their rookie guard to tackle.

 

[Chopper0080]

It could always be worse!

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Curious if we get a call on Josh Jones.

 

[cardsfanmd]

Curious if we get a call on Josh Jones.

It would take a lot for me to pull that trigger. He’s one snap away from protecting Kyler’s blind side.

 

[Proximo]

I'm not mystified, merely dismayed. We are not in a good place with injuries, which, given our lack of depth (or starters) at key spots, makes for grim reading.

Actually our injury condition seems pretty good to me. We haven't lost anybody for the season yet - which by this point in camp usually happens.

The issue isn't really how many injuries we are having, it's our lack of depth.

 

[Stout]

Actually our injury condition seems pretty good to me. We haven't lost anybody for the season yet - which by this point in camp usually happens.

The issue isn't really how many injuries we are having, it's our lack of depth.

It's both. Losing time in camp, especially for young players, is bad. Injuries that can linger into the season, like hammies and backs, are no bueno. The depth issue just exacerbates the problem.

 

[cardsfanmd]

It's both. Losing time in camp, especially for young players, is bad. Injuries that can linger into the season, like hammies and backs, are no bueno. The depth issue just exacerbates the problem.

Exactly. We haven’t lost anyone for the season besides Gladney but the fact that 3-5 guys seem to going down with minor things almost daily is a really concerning trend.

 

[football karma]

do we have any evidence the Cardinal experience is worse than average this year? It doesnt seem worse, and in some ways is better

 

[JeffGollin]

Just a gut suspicion, but all clubs are juggling injury issues in varying ways (some better &/or luckier than others). I just hope the Cards are a bit better than middle-of-the-pack. There isn’t a whole lot of transparency here.

 

[Stout]

do we have any evidence the Cardinal experience is worse than average this year? It doesnt seem worse, and in some ways is better

It sure seems worse than usual. The only possible explanation, for me, is that the team is putting out some false info, resting players, and just being super cautious.

 

[ASUCHRIS]

Well, our starters are certainly not being worn out by the preaseason!

 

[cardsfanmd]

Well, our starters are certainly not being worn out by the preaseason!

A huge chunk of them aren’t even practicing though. The other day there were 15 starters/major role players sitting due to injury/covid

Watt
Fotu
Lawrence
Golden
Hamilton
Wilson

Pugh
Hernandez
Hayes
Isadora
Murray (OL)
Ward
Moore
Wesley
Ertz

 

[juza76]

Am I the only one mystified by the amount of, albeit mainly minor, injuries that we have? I can’t remember a preseason where we were so nicked up. This is especially bizarre considering how toned-down training camps are these days. Do we have a soft team, is it just players these days or is the team being ridiculously over-cautious? If this trend continues, we’ll be starting people off the street by week 3.

Yes, vanilla practices to avoid injuries and then the team is already banged up

 

[PACardsFan]

Wouldn’t be surprised if many of our injuries are just the Cardinals being overly protective. I still think though that if we don’t upgrade the CB position, Mahomes will throw for 500
yards in the opener.

 

[ASUCHRIS]

A huge chunk of them aren’t even practicing though. The other day there were 15 starters/major role players sitting due to injury/covid

Watt
Fotu
Lawrence
Golden
Hamilton
Wilson

Pugh
Hernandez
Hayes
Isadora
Murray (OL)
Ward
Moore
Wesley
Ertz

Yeah, it's the perfect storm of injury prone players all going down at the same time.

Wolf and Max Starks were talking about it yesterday, their concerns with the lack of preseason reps. Between getting physically and mentally prepped, they worry about the last taste from the previous season, and jumping into real life fire drills against KC.

Between the injuries, the obvious depth issues, Hop being out, Gladney,, etc, this has been a nightmare of an offseason.

 

[HammerCards]

Being overly cautious. My guess is 90% of the guys would be practicing if it was week 1.

 

[PDXChris]

Yeah, it's the perfect storm of injury prone players all going down at the same time.

Wolf and Max Starks were talking about it yesterday, their concerns with the lack of preseason reps. Between getting physically and mentally prepped, they worry about the last taste from the previous season, and jumping into real life fire drills against KC.

Between the injuries, the obvious depth issues, Hop being out, Gladney,, etc, this has been a nightmare of an offseason.

This training camp looks identical to last year as far as how vets are being used and we stomped the Titans in week 1 last year, a 12-5 team.