In injuries, Yay. Once again this team has shot to the top of the league as the most injured team to play any sport on Earth. And it has been for quite a while. Yeah, football is inherently injury-prone, but at what point do the 49ers evaluate their conditioning staff? Year in and year out they are the most injured team in the league. Javon Kinlaw, yet another 1st round pick who looks to be forever injured, is injured. The guy he replaced is a stalwart on defense, and our resident super-genius Kyle Shanahan didn’t even bother to talk to him before shipping him off to Indiana.
Charvarius Ward got hurt. Sampson Ebukam was on and off the field numerous times with cramps. McGlinchey strained a calf. Not to mention the D line which was previously decimated by strains and muscle pulls in last week’s game in Carolina.
Field grass, or whatever they call that shit, really needs to be addressed by the league. The end of yesterday’s game, and countless others across the NFL landscape, saw guys cramping up left and right, and every other play saw an injury. These owners are worth billions, but can’t water a fucking field? The New Jersey field turf took out the whole 2020 season with games 2 and 3 being played there vs the Jets and Giants. Carolina? Same thing. Sofi? Yep. Atlanta, Minnesota, Indianapolis, on and on. You’d think that all the attention being paid to player safety, this would be a no-brainer. AZ and Vegas have grass fields in their domes. It can be done.
The injury rate on fake grass compared to grass is pretty obvious. Most markedly on non-contact leg injuries.
https://nflpa.com/posts/only-natural-grass-can-level-the-nfls-playing-field
The gist of the article is:
The data supports the anecdotes you’ll hear from me and other players: artificial turf is significantly harder on the body than grass. Based on NFL injury data collected from 2012 to 2018, not only was the contact injury rate for lower extremities higher during practices and games held on artificial turf, NFL players consistently experienced a much higher rate of non-contact lower extremity injuries on turf compared to natural surfaces. Specifically, players have a 28% higher rate of non-contact lower extremity injuries when playing on artificial turf. Of those non-contact injuries, players have a 32% higher rate of non-contact knee injuries on turf and a staggering 69% higher rate of non-contact foot/ankle injuries on turf compared to grass.
Duh. Let’s not protect our players with a better playing surface. I know the 49ers have a turf field to practice on. Does that mean our guys are getting hurt before games practicing on that shit? Fuck, I don’t know, but yesterday’s game showed that it is hard to win games with your backup defensive line in the game. Now we are down our best corner and yet another offensive lineman.
Most of the attention on yesterday’s loss went to the inept offense, and a lot of it is warranted, but the defense could not stop Marcus fucking Mariota from going 12-13 for 130 yards and running through our depleted defensive line all game.
San Francisco 49ers Forever 
Yeah, this is rant # 273 on the fucking fake grass. It is ludicrous that the owners don’t acknowledge the correlation between turf and injuries.
Fucking Joe Thomas back in 1978 pulled the concrete out of Candlestick Park and put in grass to try and further OJ Simpson’s career. They all KNOW what is going on.
Ohhh, but watering grass is a bridge too far.
Seems to me the Union should be screaming down the owners throats. There is so much money involved in the NFL that probably every aspect from the owners/ commissioner, and union is crooked.
This is before the Falcons game.
This is from the chart above:
It’s Week 6 of the NFL season and injuries are starting to make bigger and bigger impacts. Where does your team rank? The BUS is a proprietary algorithm using many variables including depth, game status, IR and others to show where teams rank regarding health. As we get further and further into the season health tends to take on a big role in terms of wins and losses. Remember “Health Matters” because healthy teams win championships.
Wow. the whole western division is in the bottom of that list. And this has been the theme of the Niners the last few years.
Seattle and LA play on fake grass. Amazingly only 16 of the 32 teams play on real grass.
Stat of the day under Kyle:
The 49ers are 0-26 when trailing by 5 points or more in the 4th quarter.
Get a fucking OC.
Explain how we were down to the Rams 24-17 in the 4th quarter in the last regular season game of the year, last year, and won? That right there blows that stat up.
ok, 1-26. I guess I should stop listening to Scott Ostler.
There are probably more wins. I just looked at one game. I heard them say this on TV and immediately knew it was wrong.
Huh. Had never seen Burrito footage from Altamont before. Pretty cool.
New thread is up.