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Originally Posted by PedOncoDoc
I'm heading down to NO today - this should make for some interesting dinner conversation. 
Do you think the pads have lead to more or less injuries? They certainly wouldn't be hitting each other the way they do now if hey might hurt themselves in the effort. The only thing out there for the players to hurt themselves on is eachother.  |
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FWIW, it has been my observation that NFL players are wearing fewer and fewer pads below the waist. Also, there have been a number of reports that many players no longer wear cups.
IIRC, the guys over on Fox Sports offered an observation last season that they've never seen NFL players compete as hard as they do today. Given the fact that Howie Long and Jimmy Johnson vigorously agreed with this point, I'm inclined to think that even if players wore neither pads nor helmets, they'd still go at it with all they had.