Hypothetical ?

[tepop84]

nope.  Injuries can be (and often are) caused by poor conditioning and preparation.  Sure, they can be random, but 12 random instances?  On one team?  When does it stop being random?

So it was cam camerons fault that Ricky wiliams shoulder got stepped on in his first game back after missing over a year and being suspended for the first whatever amount of games.  Ronnie brown is always injured, how is it camerons fault. Trent green got concussed, camerons fault how? Crowder is an overpaid pussy, so no surprise with him.

And I guess Zach Thomas needs a coach to tell him how to train?

[dolphins4life]

"Black and white views of a truth clad in gray"  Some injuries are caused by lack of conditioning and preparation...and some injuries are random flukes. That team definitely seemed like it had an unhealthy amount of both.

Exactly.  They were in TERRIBLE shape.  That's why the Defense went from being one of the best in the NFL in 2006 to one of the worst in 2007.  

This is one of Sparano's strong points as a coach.  Getting players in shape.   

[tepop84]

+1. 

However, how the team responds to injuries is not random and is a measure of the coaching and GM staff.  The NEP had 13 players on IR in 2008 and won 11 games.  The Dolphins had 12 players on IR in 2007 and won one. 

the miami dolphins won 5 less games in 2007 than they did in 2006.  The Patriots won 5 less regular season games in 2008 than they did in 2007.

[Pappy13]

Do you think the dolphins would be better off if they hadn't fired cam cameron?

That was the most rose colored glasses post I have ever read.  I think the Dolphins would have been better off if they never hired Cam Cameron.

[MaineDolFan]

Injuries:

If those injuries are training related (pulled muscles, etc), I would agree with Brian that the training staff has something to do with it.

In this case, Tepop is on the mark.  Ricky's injury happened as the direct result of someone stepping on him.  Trent got a concussion after taking a helmet to helmet.  Ronnie Brown gets hurt when he reads the word "injury" in the newspaper.

This rash of injuries (under Cameron's watch) didn't have much to do with the training staff.

NFL football is the most violent game on the planet.  Injuries, and a lot of them, are "whens" not "ifs."  If your team doesn't have a rash of them each year it's generally blind luck.  You can't plan nor prevent blown out knees, concussions, etc.

[Pappy13]

So it was cam camerons fault that Ricky wiliams shoulder got stepped on in his first game back after missing over a year and being suspended for the first whatever amount of games.  Ronnie brown is always injured, how is it camerons fault. Trent green got concussed, camerons fault how? Crowder is an overpaid pussy, so no surprise with him.

And I guess Zach Thomas needs a coach to tell him how to train?

The problem is that even when all those guys were healthy Miami was still losing games.