Getting a new medical staff again.... it's funny because we fired the staff we had during the superbowl run immediately after... and been injury ridden ever since
Also a reddit post going into detail about what happened before the original staff was neutered. It's reddit so take with a grain of salt, but still.
The sports science program did things such as:
Doug pays lip service to it in the article, but it seems obvious he didn't take it that seriously.
Jenkins said all the equipment is still available to players, but the program isn’t being stressed as much and some of the “tedious things that I don’t necessarily think the players liked” are gone. Those things are the daily breathing and hydration tests and questionnaires and sleep monitors. Jenkins said the team didn’t use GPS monitoring during the spring
Jenkins, who continued to take all of this stuff seriously, has played almost every single snap, including on special teams, for years now and has had zero serious injuries that I can remember.
Now to be fair, some of the players didn't like some of the elements of the program, including the sleep monitoring and hydration tests, but it's clear that all of that stuff worked, and the players should have at least been strongly encouraged to utilize the program for the benefit of the team and their own careers, but it seems that they really weren't.
Especially given how the last two years have gone, they could have said "hmm, maybe it's time we really re-emphasize the sports science program and make it more prominent," but they decided to scapegoat Huls instead and let him go.
- Monitor players' hydration levels daily, and even hold players out of practice to prevent injury if they were not hydrated enough
- Monitor players' levels of a bunch of different nutrients daily, and make personalized smoothies with the nutrients they were low in (this is what all the smoothie jokes are about)
- Monitor things like heart rate and breathing rate
- Monitor sleep
- Use GPS equipment to monitor how players moved and determine things like how much stress they were placing on certain muscles and joints
- Use all of this data to specifically tailor workouts and recovery plans for each player to prevent injury
Doug pays lip service to it in the article, but it seems obvious he didn't take it that seriously.
Jenkins said all the equipment is still available to players, but the program isn’t being stressed as much and some of the “tedious things that I don’t necessarily think the players liked” are gone. Those things are the daily breathing and hydration tests and questionnaires and sleep monitors. Jenkins said the team didn’t use GPS monitoring during the spring
Jenkins, who continued to take all of this stuff seriously, has played almost every single snap, including on special teams, for years now and has had zero serious injuries that I can remember.
Now to be fair, some of the players didn't like some of the elements of the program, including the sleep monitoring and hydration tests, but it's clear that all of that stuff worked, and the players should have at least been strongly encouraged to utilize the program for the benefit of the team and their own careers, but it seems that they really weren't.
Especially given how the last two years have gone, they could have said "hmm, maybe it's time we really re-emphasize the sports science program and make it more prominent," but they decided to scapegoat Huls instead and let him go.
