News: Dallas Cowboys reportedly still in the mix for Eric Berry

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yes, we do... thats why we keep sean lee around. If you take lee, why wouldnt you take Berry?

Lee has played 57% of the games the last 2 years. Berry has played 9%. Both are troublesome, but clearly 9% is much more troublesome than 57%.
 
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Lee has played 57% of the games the last 2 years. Berry has played 9%. Both are troublesome, but 9% is way more troublesome than 57%.
Berry ruptured an achiles.. something that just happens to players.... sean lee cant keep his hamstrings healthy....wth???? Hey, you blow a knee, sprain an ankle, break a bone... stuff happens, but multiple years of hamstring injuries??? cmon. I love lee, and when he is healthy is a beast, but if he misses one game this year due to hammies??? it is time to go
 

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Berry ruptured an achiles.. something that just happens to players.... sean lee cant keep his hamstrings healthy....wth???? Hey, you blow a knee, sprain an ankle, break a bone... stuff happens, but multiple years of hamstring injuries??? cmon. I love lee, and when he is healthy is a beast, but if he misses one game this year due to hammies??? it is time to go
And a ruptured Achilles is very difficult to come back from at all, much less at anything close to the level of play as before, so the fact it was one injury really isn’t much consolation.

Besides, there is a limit to the number of injury risk players a team can take on. You can’t justify taking on more and more simply because you took on one.

Plus, in Lee’s case, they didn’t “take it on”, they are just dealing with it in a player they have had for year and know intimately, and they will try and limit his exposure by playing him part time.
 

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It’s amazing and a little puzzling how certain players just always seem to get injured easily and often. Lee, Malik, Wentz and so many many more. Maybe @Doc50 has some insight as to why. I think part of it is that once you get injured and you try to come back too early you start to favor the injury which puts more stress on other parts of the body. But that’s just a guess and doesn’t explain all of it.

It's mostly genetics.

Some people are are just more sturdy and durable, with thicker and stronger connective tissue. In a recruit, their own past injury history should be evaluated, as well as that of their close family.

Some injuries require more time to heal than others, while some may render a player at only 5 or 10% impaired; the player and team may elect to play through it, knowing it won't completely heal until the offseason.
 

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Another well-documented problem for injuries is androgenic steroid use.

While recovery time is decreased, and a "fountain of youth" may be perceived, injuries inevitably occur when muscles become too strong for their connective tissue.
Then, when the 'roids have to be halted, rapid deterioration is likely, not to mention all of the other risks of PED's.
 
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