I also wonder if there's a correlation, either positive or negative, between missing OTAs and injury risk.
I realize most of us on here (myself included) have no idea what we're talking about with regards to injuries unless we're medical or sports medicine professionals. I generally speak on the major injuries I once suffered (hamstring, ankle, hip- which I eventually had replaced), but otherwise acknowledge my lack of knowledge.
But as a near lifelong fan of this team, too much of this year reminds me too much of last year- and previous years before that:
- Focus on getting athletes at skill positions
- (Fill in your own point here
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- Ignoring the interior offensive line in the draft
- Free agent signings of other team's backup linemen to start for us
- Line looks inadequate with aforementioned "starters" early in training camp and QB can't even flatulate without a defensive lineman being close enough to grade it
- 3 or more of the o-line starters go down (last year we lost 4 if them in the preseason), but many more exuberant posters swore we'd be ''fine"
- No continuity is established
- Pre-season ends and we proceed to not just get destroyed in the first game, but lose the first four games and look completely unprepared
- Rookie QB gets traumatized
Dan Campbell may be a meatball, but that team's philosophy of building the lines first is something the Bears could learn from.
I read a rumour that Flus is considering not playing CW this week in Buffalo due to offensive line issues. If true, that leaves two pre-season games left (Cincinnati and Kansas City), and I can guarantee you that KC is going to blitz from every conceivable angle if CW plays because Spagnola is an asshole. However you feel about JF, you know he's going to be watching and privately saying, "See? This is what they did to me. So glad I am with a team that believes in investing in a line."