{"id":234495,"date":"2014-10-26T22:17:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T03:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ultimatenyg.com\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2014-10-26T22:17:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T03:17:40","slug":"injuries-are-a-serious-structural-problem-for-the-ny-giants-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/injuries-are-a-serious-structural-problem-for-the-ny-giants-franchise\/","title":{"rendered":"Injuries Are a Serious Structural Problem for the NY Giants Franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"

New data has been compiled by this NY Giants blog that points to a systemic problem with NY Giants injuries.\u00a0 While some may\u00a0point to “1” freak injury\u00a0for Victor Cruz as a sign of randomness, data of NY Giants injuries since 2008 indicate a worsening trend and alarming underachievement\u00a0from the organization in maintaining adequate physical conditioning of their football players.<\/p>\n

UltimateNYG has\u00a0been critical of\u00a0the NY Giants Strength\u00a0& Conditioning\u00a0coach for many years.\u00a0\u00a0We have seen a truckload of injuries, with particular note paid to the rash of hamstring injuries in 2009<\/a><\/strong> and the series of Round 1 draft picks<\/strong><\/a> all having injuries to one degree or another.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Last year, after the brutal 2013 season was over, the NFL reported that the Giants finished in last place<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>with the most\u00a0games lost to starters due to injury.\u00a0 It was a quantifiable metric\u00a0that supported our running belief that an absence of up to date stretching and flexibility regimens were costing the Giants players starts and by its implication, competitiveness.<\/p>\n

Then this past week, the NY Times reported that through Thursday, the NY Giants were in 2nd to last place<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in\u00a0injuries for the 2014 season…<\/p>\n

A survey of every team revealed that through Thursday, 223 players populated those three (injury) lists, out of almost 1,700 players on the active rosters. The Colts, with 13, and the Giants, with 11, had been clobbered the hardest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All of the anecdotal pieces of data were accumulating and it was painting a very poor picture of the Giants and the work they do to have their best players on the field as much as possible.\u00a0 Two years of data plus anecdotal evidence allows for inference, but more data was needed to support the claim that injuries have been systemic.\u00a0 Enter Football Outsiders.<\/p>\n

The people at Football Outsiders<\/strong><\/a> have been collecting\u00a0team injury data for years and I just needed to sort through old posts to see what was going on for the Gmen.\u00a0\u00a0Their site uses a metric called Adjusted Games Lost<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(“AGL”), which it contends is actually more accurate than starter games lost.\u00a0\u00a0The point is that we have an objective meaure of how the Giants rank and it is using the same calculation method\u00a0year after year, for every team.\u00a0 The table below contains the results of the Giants:
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There are a number of things to consider from the data.\u00a0 For starters, with a data set this large for 53+ players and many starters over a 7 year period starting from when the team was 12-4, we can look past “freak” injuries\u00a0from one player like Victor Cruz and\u00a0look at general group data.\u00a0\u00a0Second, since each team has\u00a0to face the same yearly conditions that the Giants have to face (i.e. the changing 2011 CBA), all of that noise is normalized when looking at the team’s ranking vs the other 31 NFL organizations.\u00a0 So even if AGLs are rising for everyone due to less practice, it’s rising faster<\/em> for the Giants.\u00a0 Third, the Giants have been living in the bottom half of the league since 2009 and the bottom quartile for the past 4 years.\u00a0 Fourth, and perhaps most damaging, is that the trend of the ranking has been declining consistently during this period.<\/p>\n

Naysayers will point to data that shows that AGL is poorly correlated to playoff teams and Super Bowl Championships.\u00a0\u00a0And we already know the quick retort- hey, the Giants won a title in 2011 when they were 26th in the\u00a0NFL in AGL ranking.\u00a0 But this is where it is important to understand\u00a0 the contribution of injuries as ONE variable in the larger picture of competitiveness.\u00a0 If anything, the 2011 AGL\u00a0ranking goes EVEN FURTHER to explain just how important injuries really are to a team.\u00a0 Remember that in 2011 the\u00a0team\u00a0lost Osi Umenyiora for 9 starts before he returned in the playoffs.\u00a0 Justin Tuck battled through injury (likely captured in the AGL stats better than his loss of 5 starts) all season, only to come on at the end of the season to make an impact.\u00a0 And\u00a0lesser known player (who got\u00a0the\u00a0call from the couch to fill in for an\u00a0injured LBer corps)\u00a0Chase Blackburn made a late season impact that we on this blog have only recently understood to be far more important than one would otherwise believe<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 In other words, the injuries accounted for a very sloppy 7-7 start. The reemergence of Osi, Tuck and Blackburn\u00a0put the team on a 6-0 Super Bowl run.<\/p>\n

The data is stark and compelling.\u00a0 Not only are injuries consistent for this organization every year relative to the rest of the league, they are also trending more negatively\u00a0as well.\u00a0 In the last ~3.5 seasons when the Giants have been in the lower quartile of injuries, the team has amassed a 28-27 won loss record.\u00a0 It is certainly not being helped by a steady and worsening undercurrent of injuries.\u00a0 Relative to its competitors, it can do a lot better.\u00a0 And if you think that the strength and conditioning programs of all NFL teams\u00a0are\u00a0equal, just\u00a0read this link<\/strong><\/a> as a reminder that all forms of technology and techniques are moving forward, leaving others behind.<\/p>\n

The Giants have won a grand total of 2 games vs teams with a winning record in the last season and a half.\u00a0 Those two games were last year against 3rd string starting QBs Matt Barkley (PHI) and Scott Tolzien (GB).\u00a0\u00a0The Giants injury data is not “the” reason that the team is not beating the NFL’s better teams, but it certainly isn’t helping them.\u00a0 Obviously there are a number of reasons why the team has\u00a0not been\u00a0competitive.\u00a0\u00a0Common sense would dictate that when your team is in the lower half of NFL injuries for the last 6 years and lower quartile for the past 4 seasons, that the Giants need to change some of the things they are doing to make their players healthier from a macro organizational approach.\u00a0 That starts with the responsibilities of your strength and conditioning coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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