7thFloorRA
Cheesehead
I like to direct my bitterness towards guys never returning at the Pepper and the docs but the more I think about it I believe it is the organizational policy to return players to 100 percent that is the issue. Other teams will shoot guys up with toradol and cortisone and let them go at less than 100 percent. That makes them less effective and has huge potential for later in life issues. Pepper has been around the Pack since the Brett era and guys in the Ron Wolf regime would come back early and play through stuff. Brett played through all kinds of stuff they would never let him play through now and Pepper was the ATC.
The guy I have a beef with is Lovat. The hamstring epidemic is in my professional opinon (as I am a certified strength and conditioning specialist) a direct result of his program. When you get a greater than 3-1 ratio of quad strength to hamstring strength you put your hamstrings at risk for injury . You also put your ACL at risk too with that ratio. Something he is doing is building the quad at a higher rate than it is building the hamstring. It could be as simple as him deciding to back off of doing traditional back squatting and doing more front squatting. I have heard Clay say he does not squat heavy because he thinks is bad for his back....no one has a worse hamstring problem than Clay. He needs to strengthen the hamstring through the ENTIRE range of motion and back off some of the quad dominant exercises..........Actually the next strength coach does because Lovat has screwed this up already.
The guy I have a beef with is Lovat. The hamstring epidemic is in my professional opinon (as I am a certified strength and conditioning specialist) a direct result of his program. When you get a greater than 3-1 ratio of quad strength to hamstring strength you put your hamstrings at risk for injury . You also put your ACL at risk too with that ratio. Something he is doing is building the quad at a higher rate than it is building the hamstring. It could be as simple as him deciding to back off of doing traditional back squatting and doing more front squatting. I have heard Clay say he does not squat heavy because he thinks is bad for his back....no one has a worse hamstring problem than Clay. He needs to strengthen the hamstring through the ENTIRE range of motion and back off some of the quad dominant exercises..........Actually the next strength coach does because Lovat has screwed this up already.