Interesting GPS article

They'll do anything to get those extra two games that no one but the league office wants.

 

I just don't see how this will prevent injuries that aren't necessarily from over exertion. Things like ACL/MCL tears and of course, concussions. You get plenty of these at the start of the season, so it isn't like overuse is an issue.

How about you implement it, then see how it affects injuries? Meanwhile, the league should stop pushing the 18 game issue.

 

lol so wait a gps gonna be all in 5 yards turn right turn around extend arms catch spin run run run stiff arm run run run and this gonna reduce injuries

 

This has nothing to do about directions. It's about tracking your players health. How much they run, how fast they run, how's their heart rate etc. Instead of wearing a heart rate monitor and a GPS watch to monitor it all, they build the tracker technology into the jersey and let a laptop or similar collect all the data.

 

I hope this was an idiotic joke... try at least skimming the article in the link before replying...

 

It isn't meant to prevent those sort of injuries you mentioned. This is a tool that gives you data to show when you're going beyond the point of training that your soft tissues may be able to handle. Say that accumulating 500 points in a weeks span has proven to increase the risk of a strain,sprain,muscle pull etc.. your player is at 450 points Thursdays practice...the data shows that the player should take it easy Friday or the risk of injury increases. It can't predict an injury..but it can show at what point injury is more probable, giving a scientific means of preventing injury if used correctly. Not an exact science..but couple prevent a lot of injury related to over exerting the body. Its like an oil light in a car.. yeah you can ignore it and maybe your engine won't blow...but you know with the warning that the probability is higher so you stop driving the car til you put some oil in it.

 

This technology is already being used in some capacity to rehab players. I'd like to see it tested on the field now.

 

of course it was a joke