I'm going to state a strong opinion here about something Mike Lombardi said on his podcast and if you have evidence that I am wrong please push back.
This motherfucker Lombardi was ranting and raving on his pod, and I don't mind that, about rest during the 17 game season and said something I thought was extraordinarily dumb. Something that has a veneer of logic but does not stand up to scrutiny. He said in terms of rest/load management is does not matter how many games you play what matters is how many plays you play. Therefore teams could manage the number of snaps a player is in for to be equivalent to a 16 game season over 17 games.
Here is why I think this is incredibly dumb. I roll live grappling matches 3x per week for between an hour and 1.5 hours, It's roughly 12 matches (because of rest between rounds and odd number of guys). We go pretty hard because we are dumb old bros and some of these guys are tough. Lombardi's argument is that if I were to roll 10 matches instead of 12, after 5 sessions this would be like taking a day off to rest. This is absolute bullshit. Once you are warmed up and your body is hot, the marginal match isn't taking that much out of you and similarly, I cannot see how an additional 3-5 plays in an NFL game is the same as having a full week off sometime during the season. This seems like a total misunderstanding of how the human body recovers from a workload. Am I wrong?
This motherfucker Lombardi was ranting and raving on his pod, and I don't mind that, about rest during the 17 game season and said something I thought was extraordinarily dumb. Something that has a veneer of logic but does not stand up to scrutiny. He said in terms of rest/load management is does not matter how many games you play what matters is how many plays you play. Therefore teams could manage the number of snaps a player is in for to be equivalent to a 16 game season over 17 games.
Here is why I think this is incredibly dumb. I roll live grappling matches 3x per week for between an hour and 1.5 hours, It's roughly 12 matches (because of rest between rounds and odd number of guys). We go pretty hard because we are dumb old bros and some of these guys are tough. Lombardi's argument is that if I were to roll 10 matches instead of 12, after 5 sessions this would be like taking a day off to rest. This is absolute bullshit. Once you are warmed up and your body is hot, the marginal match isn't taking that much out of you and similarly, I cannot see how an additional 3-5 plays in an NFL game is the same as having a full week off sometime during the season. This seems like a total misunderstanding of how the human body recovers from a workload. Am I wrong?