Jevon Holland: Since being in the league I’ve heard that field is trash
Raheem Mostert: We’ve got to do something about this turf. Something has to change.
I am not discounting the issue with the turf, but it is rich that the Dolphins would complain about a stadium and its turf when they built a stadium that purposefully hurts the opposing team.
nfl needs to mandate grass
Nobody should be playing on fully artificial turf. Hybrid at a minimum if they need the longevity. You share $12bn/yr between 32 teams, with a total of $20bn in revenue. You can afford to pay for a stadiums with a safe playing surface.
They shouldn’t allow turf outdoors and teams that use turf should subsidize the teams that use grass so there’s not a cost advantage.
I worked at MetLife and when I was on the turf I literally felt like it was trash
What exactly is it about turf that causes injuries though? Has there been any actual research.
There’s a good YouTube video out there that details some of this stuff
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LBWSoNlgv00&pp=ygUTR3JlZW4gbW9uc3RlciB0dXJmIA%3D%3D
The weird part is, I could have sworn that I heard that Metlife stadium just got a new playing surface this year
The general consensus is that turf has less give compared to grass. Thus when they are making cuts and changing direction quickly there is a lot more stress on joints and ligaments causing tears and injuries to happen more frequently. This is why it seems like you have a higher amount of knee and ankle injuries.
I’m sure part of it is the attention turf injuries get compared to grass, but it shouldn’t be ignored that players just prefer grass to turf. I’ve used both and much prefer grass myself. I’m nowhere near the level of athletes these guys are so I can only imagine the amount of forces they are applying to their body when playing.
The pellets that hold the turf in can cause your cleats to stick to them. This causes extra torque on your routes and cuts, causing increased leg injuries. The Kelce brothers have talked about why turf sucks a couple times on their podcast.
Does it even matter that much? The players playing on it say they would much prefer playing on grass. Why would fans need to see research to back that up? Aren’t we here to watch the players?
Of course it matters.
If it’s just the players preference, the owners have a reasonable argument to say turf is cheaper, get over it.
If turf actually causes a statistically significant increase in injury, the same owners should be forced to replace it with natural grass or some other safer alternative.
Got it. Screw what the players want as long as the poor billionaires save some money. I get this argument coming from the owners’ cronies. Never going not be insane to me that regular ass fans do this. But it is what it is. Some people just love to worship owners.
Pretty much screw what the players want, yeah. Billionaires got that way by pleasing themselves sadly, not other people. I’ve never seen a fan worshipping an owner but I guess they must exist.
Because many players have dumb takes and data should be driving changes lol
Go to any social media post about players getting ejected or fined for spearing or something and you’ll see countless guys, occasionally former players, grumbling about how it’s not FOOBAW
This is not about a “take” though? This is about the actual people playing on this surface saying they feel better playing on grass than turf. How is that a “take”? Do you go to the doctor and tell them your tummy hurts and expect the doctor to go, “Well that’s just your take”?
And again, I don’t understand what fans gain by rushing to the defense of the billionaire owners. What do you lose by being on the side of the players? If the players say they would rather play on grass, why are we pulling out our financial analyst hats and rushing to save the billionaire owners a couple million dollars by going, “Well the data shows this is a bad take”. It makes no sense.
It’s not financial analysis, it’s injury analysis. Lots of players are superstitious, hell a bunch of people in this thread didn’t realize the turf itself was new. If the data backs the players’ opinions, which it seems to, then install grass. If it doesn’t, ignore their opinions because who gives a h*ck if they feel more comfortable on something proven to actually be worse for injury?
Fans should, no? Do we watch for the players or the owners? We shouldn’t care that the people doing the actual entertaining are not more comfortable? What is the drawback? This literally makes no sense to me. As a fan, what does it matter whether the games are on turf or grass? Why such vehement defense of turf? Even if you are 100% right and every piece of research says there is no difference, what does it hurt you to root for having grass? Are you getting some bonuses or stocks in turf or something?
Idk how you aren’t getting this
If players are actually getting more injured on a surface
Then it doesn’t matter if they “like” it better
it’s so bad I’m hoping the Eagles have the 1 seed locked up and don’t need to risk injury to a starter (not that I want a backup to get hurt) on that dumpster fire of a field. The NFL can harp about player safety all they want, but I don’t buy it as long as that field is around.
Times like this it’s nice to have an owner who’s paid for a new grass field multiple times in the last year
MetLife is trash.
People are jumping on the narrative, but Metlife literally changed their turf in the offseason. It’s the same one used in Detroit and Atlanta. Nobody complains about those.
The issue is that athletes go so hard nowadays and their bodies can’t handle it. If you watched the broadcast, they literally mentioned that Phillips had actually retired due to injuries in college before deciding to come back. But people want to blame the turf? Metlife has not had nearly the amount of non-contact injuries it had in the past. It’s just easy to blame the turf because people don’t want to think about whether athletes are going too hard these days.
Who gives a shit
-ownership
https://youtu.be/BB_o7gp8HIw?si=rV_cw5eLjfOMMOrE
See what the Kelce brothers have to say about artificial turf.
If teams started resting starters there, the league would respond.
Meanwhile Kenyans can run barefoot all through Africa at great distances and speeds
Players come together and refuse to play is the only way I see the nfl taking this seriously. That’s going to be incredibly hard tho since players indeed want their game checks lol