**CLOSED** NFL Pick The Winners Contest - Week 8

[ScareCrowAKA]

I think BYE weeks are more about recovering from injuries, not fatigue from running... something soccer players dont really have to worry about on a play by play basis, considering the 1st little nudge of contact they feel they fly to the ground and roll back and forth, screaming for about 2-3 mins

funniest espn commercial I have seen

[NDN]

I won't work for weeks! Love it!

[eejit101]

First of all, i love NFL. Alot. But the players are utter pussies.

Lets compare the NFL, where a "leading rushing breakout performance" by DeMarco Murray, was heralded when he rushed for, 253 yards. Thats a distance I just ran. I measured it. Its 230 metres (approx). I ran this in a total of 30 seconds.

THIRTY SECONDS.

Compare that to the following post about soccer, from an actual scientific study...

According to The Sunday Times website, midfielders in England's Premiership worked the hardest in the 2005-06 season, running on average 7 miles, 246 yards per game. Right midfielders win the distinction of performing the most "high-intensity" runs -- running at a three-quarter sprint speed or faster -- averaging nearly 150 bursts per game that cover 339 yards. Discounting goalkeepers, centerbacks ran the least amount per game, yet still impressively averaged six miles, 332 yards. Gennaro Gattuso of Italy's AC Milan racked up more than 6-1/2 miles in the 2007 semifinal of the Champion's League, suggesting that the particular league a player is a part of has no bearing on the average distance covered during a professional soccer match."


Ok, thats 6.5 miles average. Over 90 minutes. With a 15 minute break.

Bear in mind with injuries like you are claiming, the clock DOES NOT STOP. This means that even if they "fall over and roll around", they still do these distances in 87 minutes.

So your point is just dumb. Yes, some players overact for injuries, and yes, i hate it. But soccer is continuous, there are no breaks to recover, there is not 45 seconds between plays, of HALF THE ENTIRE GAME SAT ON THE BENCH. Football has 3 teams, soccer has 1. In soccer all the team is on the pitch, and continuing to move. In NFL, if an RB doesnt get the ball, he runs say 5 metres, blocks someone,t hen just watches.

How can you possibly compare the two.

And then compare this to NFL without the padding. A.K.A Rugby.

I dont even need to type anything. They run 5.5 miles a game on average... and this happens...




So, that being said, sit your fat american asses in your chairs, with you beer and wings and whatever cheese covered crap you eat, and watch rugby, and now tell me rugby and football plyers dont work harder, and would literally outlast any single NFL player (with maybe 2 exceptions), in any game where you have to be at speed for longer than 7 seconds.

[ScareCrowAKA]

I wasnt comparing the 2... I just said the bye weeks are important, not in the fact that the players are fatigued from cardio aspect, but rather... many players are playing w injuries, that are caused from the physical part of the game, something that does not apply to soccer nearly as much...

take Beanie Wells for example... the last 3 wks hes been listed as questionable or probable, cuz he has nagging injuries hes playing threw

the bye week will give him a extra wk to rest and heal up some

its 2 diff, things, football is sprinting... even 300lbs lineman are running sub 5 sec 40yrd times in the NFL... then crash into a 200+ lb man... its the culumative effects of that that cause sprains, strains, etc...

... injuries that can only fully heal by resting

plus the NFL players are so roided up and bigger than any rugby player... if steven jackson collided w any footballer, he would kill them instantly

[eejit101]

Ok, but get this.

Manchester united will play 64 games this season. SIXTY FOUR.

Packers will play what, 19 at max?

[ScareCrowAKA]

but there is barly any contact... nba players run up and down up and down... and have like 80+ games, but im pretty sure a full nfl season is more phsically taxing than a nba players, especially if u are a running back

[eejit101]

How. You are covered in fricken padding.

Ok, compare to rugby. Watch that video.