Jevon Holland: Since being in the league I’ve heard that field is trash

Raheem Mostert: We’ve got to do something about this turf. Something has to change.

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    10 months ago

    it’s so bad I’m hoping the Eagles have the 1 seed locked up and don’t need to risk injury to a starter (not that I want a backup to get hurt) on that dumpster fire of a field. The NFL can harp about player safety all they want, but I don’t buy it as long as that field is around.

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    10 months ago

    Nothing will change unless the players take a stand and refuse to play on turf. They’ll just complain every time someone tears an ACL or pops an Achilles and then move on to the next news topic in a few days.

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    10 months ago

    I am not discounting the issue with the turf, but it is rich that the Dolphins would complain about a stadium and its turf when they built a stadium that purposefully hurts the opposing team.

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    10 months ago

    Still remember when that field effectively ended our 2020 season in Week 2, Mostert was one of the many many injuries that game

    Fuuuuuuck Metlife

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    10 months ago

    People are jumping on the narrative, but Metlife literally changed their turf in the offseason. It’s the same one used in Detroit and Atlanta. Nobody complains about those.

    The issue is that athletes go so hard nowadays and their bodies can’t handle it. If you watched the broadcast, they literally mentioned that Phillips had actually retired due to injuries in college before deciding to come back. But people want to blame the turf? Metlife has not had nearly the amount of non-contact injuries it had in the past. It’s just easy to blame the turf because people don’t want to think about whether athletes are going too hard these days.

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    10 months ago

    Players come together and refuse to play is the only way I see the nfl taking this seriously. That’s going to be incredibly hard tho since players indeed want their game checks lol

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    10 months ago

    Times like this it’s nice to have an owner who’s paid for a new grass field multiple times in the last year

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    10 months ago

    Amazingly, this is brand new turf this year to replace the ligament graveyard we’ve had for years…

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      10 months ago

      Brett Kollman mentioned he’s heard it’s not necessarily the TYPE of turf used, but that teams are potentially cheaping-out on the INSTALLATION, which is very interesting. Hopefully he releases a full video on it soon, as I could totally see that being the issue, which is even more embarrassing for Metlife

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        10 months ago

        I feel like this would track since the lions have the same type of turf at Ford Field but it has been relatively major injury free (knock on wood)

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          10 months ago

          Ford Field has claimed some ligaments in its day. Von Miller, DBak, Tracy Walker… I don’t know how it stacks up vs. some of the other stadiums that use turf, though. I know they just switched from slit-film to monofilament this offseason as well

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        10 months ago

        If I know one thing about construction and NFL owners is that they will go with the cheapest price. Lowest bid/price equals cheap installation.

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          10 months ago

          If I know one thing about construction and NFL owners

          This goes with anything labor related. It’s why there are slaves and child labor around the world.