I had lunch today at Lüke with a buddy of mine who also works for the Pels and Saints training staff (well, he works for Oschner, and he is assigned those two teams as he is in sports medicine). We obviously talked about the game last night, and we talked about (among other things) Jrue's min. restriction. Obviously he isn't going to tell me all the ins and outs about a patient, and I didn't care to listen as I would have been lost as soon as he mentioned a medical term. But every player is different, and in short, they call it practicing medicine because it's not an exact science.
Anyway, I brought up our injury history, and I brought up the point a lot of people on this board make. That point is, we have all these injuries because of the medical staff not knowing what they are doing, and or, the medical staff isn't diagnosing and treating the right things, and it's keeping players out longer. He laughed (as did I while I was relaying this info to him), and he said point blank, "whoever says that is an idiot. Do people not understand how much different a typical pro athletes body is as opposed to a normal persons? That's why they are professional athletes. They are bigger, stronger and faster than 99% of the people on the Earth. Their bodies definetly aren't going to react the same to treatments as a normal persons. Do people honestly think we are jumping on players, or hitting them with bats or canes during treatment?"
We moved on from the subject as our burgers arrived, and that was that.
I just thought it was interesting insight from a familiar scapegoat.