Bills should just do walkthroughs first 3 training camp days

[BillsWatch]

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000220109/article/chiefs-rookie-sanders-commings-breaks-collarbone

The Kansas City Chiefs rookie cornerback is out indefinitely after fracturing his left collarbone.

 

Sanders Commings wasn't wearing shoulder pads at the time of the injury, which he suffered while trying to defend a pass intended for tight end Tony Moeaki. The Chiefs

can't go in full pads until their fourth practice, per the collective bargaining agreement

(aka agreement with the idiots).

 

NFLPA does not believe in safety first which has been obvious for years according to collective bargaining stances.

[HamSandwhich]

Tough break...I'm sure we'll have couple this year. Hopefully not to any big time players.

[San Jose Bills Fan]

This injury to Commings was more of a freak accident than anything else.

 

While the players "took it on the chin" in the last CBA, they won in the area of "working conditions" where they gained numerous concessions making the offseason, training camp and regular season practice much more safe and much less arduous.

 

For example:

 

1) The offseason programs have gone from a 14 week period to a 9 week period.

 

2) The number of OTA days has gone from 14 to 10.

 

3) The dreaded "two-a-days" (two full-contact practices) in training camp have been completely eliminated.

 

4) Training camp practices are now limited to no more than 3 hours. If there is a second practice that day, it has to be a walk-thru practice lasting no more than 1 hour.

 

5) Also new in training camp is the rule stipulating that teams give their players one complete day off with no practices or meetings.

 

6) Teams cannot have a padded practice until at least the 4th day of training camp.

 

7) During the regular season the team may hold no more than 14 full-pad practices with no more than 11 such practices in the first 11 weeks and the remaining 3 padded-practices spread out over the final 6 weeks.

 

The players are overjoyed by these changes for good reason.

 

What happened to Commings was virtually a non-contact injury. In the Cowboys training camp they've already suffered two non-contact injuries involving a bone bruise to the knee and a ruptured achilles tendon.

 

Despite now enjoying the safest practice standards in decades, injuries will never be eradicated from NFL practices.

[bowery4]

This injury to Commings was more of a freak accident than anything else.

 

While the players "took it on the chin" in the last CBA, they won in the area of "working conditions" where they gained numerous concessions making the offseason, training camp and regular season practice much more safe and much less arduous.

 

For example:

 

1) The offseason programs have gone from a 14 week period to a 9 week period.

 

2) The number of OTA days has gone from 14 to 10.

 

3) The dreaded "two-a-days" (two full-contact practices) in training camp have been completely eliminated.

 

4) Training camp practices are now limited to no more than 3 hours. If there is a second practice that day, it has to be a walk-thru practice lasting no more than 1 hour.

 

5) Also new in training camp is the rule stipulating that teams give their players one complete day off with no practices or meetings.

 

6) Teams cannot have a padded practice until at least the 4th day of training camp.

 

7) During the regular season the team may hold no more than 14 full-pad practices with no more than 11 such practices in the first 11 weeks and the remaining 3 padded-practices spread out over the final 6 weeks.

 

The players are overjoyed by these changes for good reason.

 

What happened to Commings was virtually a non-contact injury. In the Cowboys training camp they've already suffered two non-contact injuries involving a bone bruise to the knee and a ruptured achilles tendon.

 

Despite now enjoying the safest practice standards in decades, injuries will never be eradicated from NFL practices.

It seems to me that they kind of shot themselves in the foot though with the way only top FA's were signed this year and a lot of older players will be working for way less money or they retired (which seems like happened way more than in the past).

[San Jose Bills Fan]

Yeah as I said, the players generally lost in this last CBA but they greatly improved working conditions.

[eball]

Nice summary SJBF...thx.

[Meatloaf Sandwich]

Injuries happen you can't really avoid it. Walk through the first 3 days and on the 4th day someone ends up getting injured. Doesn't matter how long you wait.

[Kellyto83TD]

You think they lost? Wait till the next one. Ownership was willing if they lost in court to disband the league and reform in a year under a new org that would allow them to bypass all this CBA bull crap. Players get paid MORE Than enough.