MLive Open Practice Observations

Submitted by Rumsey on

Some good observations from Nick Baumgardner. My favorite part:

At Harbaugh's Michigan, being injured is really not any fun. The injured players never stopped working. Never. Jehu Chesson -- who is still rehabbing a knee injury -- and Shelton Johnson -- who has some type of leg injury -- spent basically three full hours on an exercise bike or pulling a rope or doing situps or doing situps while holding a rope or just carrying weight bags from one end of the field to the other.

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mGrowOld

March 27th, 2016 at 11:11 AM ^

And what a great message it sends.  You may be injured but you are still part of this team and we expect you to do SOMETHING to try and get better today.  Cant run?  Then instead of standing around doing nothing then you'll do something you CAN do.

Man if more coaches did this I guarentee you those little "ouchies" Hoke lamented would go away fast.  No incentive to claim injury unless you are really hurt and even then you're expected to contribute somehow.

Bravo!

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PopeLando

March 27th, 2016 at 7:18 PM ^

Disagree. First of all, it's pretty common PT to exercise the non-injured parts of your body, as I understand. Second of all, and more importantly, Hoke's issue is that he pretty much denied or ignored injuries until they couldn't be denied or ignored. Denard's QB-ending infection was pretty much glossed over. Gardner played with a broken foot because Hoke didn't want to hear about it. And we all (except Shane, most likely) remember the Morris Fiasco.

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JTrain

March 27th, 2016 at 7:34 PM ^

Did Chesson tear an ACL ? Or is it an injury of an I know variety?? What did we used to call it? A "boo boo"?



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Blue_In_Texas

March 27th, 2016 at 8:46 PM ^

One thing i am v excited for is the effect of another offseason with this coaching staff for our OL and RBs. If they can even incrementally continue to improve, that is a major benefit for us, and something we did not experience under the last staff. 

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