I made it up :)

That’s the argument that’s made – “The Bills have a bad conditioning program therefore we get injured more often”. I just think it’s silly. The Peters’ injury is real. I just made up a funny quote because on more than one occasion Peters’ quote about how the Eagles off season program was much more intense than the Bills’ came up. Now he’s in the same place as everyone else – injured on a play where a guy rolled up on his legs, just like most of the Bills injuries over the past few years. Again, the quote is made up, the injury was real.

It just bothers me that every few weeks people say the Bills are too soft and with better strength and conditioning coaches all of these injuries would go away. I think they’re barking up the wrong tree, especially when there are much higher paid gentlemen to point a finger at. These injuries just happen, it has nothing to do with these guys time in (and not in) the weight room or running sprints on the field.

maybe not being aggressive enough?

We kind of read and react instead of forcing teams to do what we want them to do.

That is my argument. Our team is as fit as any in the NFL. It’s probably their footwork / team coordination that might be the issue. All I was trying to say, it happens to every team. It happened to Peters and Kris Jenkins this week. These injuries seem to happen more to younger teams with newer coaching staffs. It does not have to do with conditioning, it does have something to do with trust and knowledge of the plays. Our guys are fit, you’ve seen them without their shirts. We have also seen them look pathetic on the field. When you have a higher percentage of broken plays, I think that leads to injuries. I believe that pretty much correlates the higher number of injuries to the Bills. No confidence in the playbook leads to an “everyone for themselves” approach, which leads to guys running one another over.

Also, the Bills play a defensive scheme which includes “swarming to the ball”, leading to a pile of defenders on every play, increasing the risk of injury. I just think there are a ton of other substantial reasons before you get to conditioning. The guys are ready to play, at least fitness wise, when September rolls around. Our offensive plan was the opposite of ready to go, which very much put our offensive personnel at risk of injury, as well as the o-line’s lack of experience. We’re probably lucky(maybe?) none of the big boys rolled up on Edwards’ leg or crushed his foot in the first few games. Do you see what I’m getting at? Blame Jauron, blame Perry Fewell or Alex Van Pelt or the assistant coaches. The trainers and strength guys sre small fires who I’m sure are keeping the guys ready, as best as possible, in-season. As far as making the players stronger and all that, I think that’s up to the players in the off-season to have personal trainers and all that to stay healthy. I’m not sure how many guys participate in the optional strength program.

As bad as our football team is, and as borderline as some of the talent on the roster is, maybe the Bills have more injuries simply because the team is disorganized and nobody trusts in the systems in place.

I’m not sure about that, those stats are published elsewhere. From plain observation, I’m sure our linebackers are quite a bit lighter and smaller (not necessarily faster) as a whole, especially with Mitchell on IR. Our defensive tackles aren’t of the nose tackle type, so they are a little smaller. defensive backs are about league average, I would assume. I’m not going to even fathom the offensive stats. I know prior to this year, we had the biggest, heaviest, tallest o-line.

I think bad teams get more injuries than good teams and it has nothing to do with their strength coach.