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Check out the last two paragraphs from this 11/16/16 conference call:
Bill Belichick Conference Call Transcript 11/6
Mike Reiss had a column on the subject a week earlier:
Bill Belichick pleased with 'significant improvement' on health of roster
The promotion of Moses Cabrera as the Patriots' Strength and Conditioning Coach is hopefully more than just a coincidence with fewer injuries as well.
After five years of bad injury luck, Patriots are finally one of the healthiest in NFL
Patriots were 8th healthiest team in 2016 after changing STR&C coach
Injuries are inevitable so you can't truly base anything on one or even two seasons. Time will tell. Worrying about it would be an exercise in futility.
We certainly should be spending out time worrying about something that hasn't happened yet and we have no way of knowing how likely it is.Did the Pats change something to be so injury-free, except for Gronk, by playoff time in 2016, or were we just luckier?
I'm asking partly to try to assess how worried about a 2015 injury repeat one should be at this stage.
We will see at the end of the year, but from comments made by Bill Belichick it appears that there has been a focus by the coaching staff on preventative maintenance in regards to injuries.
Check out the last two paragraphs from this 11/6/16 conference call:
Bill Belichick Conference Call Transcript 11/6
Mike Reiss had a column on the subject back then:
Bill Belichick pleased with 'significant improvement' on health of roster
The promotion of Moses Cabrera as the Patriots' Strength and Conditioning Coach is hopefully more than just a coincidence with fewer injuries as well.
After five years of bad injury luck, Patriots are finally one of the healthiest in NFL
Patriots were 8th healthiest team in 2016 after changing STR&C coach
Injuries are inevitable so you can't truly base anything on one or even two seasons. Time will tell. Worrying about it would be an exercise in futility.