PFW Ranks The Worst Injury Hit Teams

by JasonB on Dec 16, 2011 4:30 PM EST in Philadelphia Eagles News

Pro Football Weekly did a ranking this week of all 32 NFL teams in order of how badly they've been hit by injuries. It's a somewhat subjective rank in that it's not about the amount of weeks missed to injuries, instead they focus more on how important the injuries they've had were. They ranked the Eagles down at #23.

The Eagles have five players on IR this season (DE Victor Abiamiri, S Colt Anderson, DT Antonio Dixon, OLB Moise Fokou, WR Steve Smith), but as PFW says, their injuries have been more week to week.

The Eagles' injuries have been more of the week-to-week variety. Starters such as QB Michael Vick (three games), WR Jeremy Maclin (three), CB Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie (three), DE Trent Cole (two) and OLT Jason Peters (two) all have missed time. Other key contributors such as DE Brandon Graham, Smith, Dixon, QB Vince Young, DE Darryl Tapp and special-teams ace Anderson all have missed various lengths of time, but it's not like you can say injuries have decimated Philly's season.

What do you say? Have injuries played a big part in the Eagles struggles this year? Obviously they lost two of three without their starting QB, so that's notable... There have been a lot of key players missing games but it is true that there hasn't been one killer, lost for the season type injury.

The Bills, who have 14 players on IR, led the list.

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I would of thought that Houston will be on top of the list

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by FloridaEagle on Dec 16, 2011 4:37 PM EST reply actions

shhhhhhh – you’ll give Reid & Co a reason for not winning their division if you keep this talk up.

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by NJBammer on Dec 16, 2011 4:40 PM EST reply actions

Even when healthy we blow

It’s not like the packers of last year…not at all

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by Joe_D on Dec 16, 2011 5:03 PM EST reply actions

yep, see below

by MikeCampy on Dec 16, 2011 5:22 PM EST up reply actions

I'm not bitter about injuries this year... especially considering how horrible the last 2 years were.

We were remarkably healthy in the beginning of the season… we hadn’t had anyone significant put on IR, no freaking ACL tears… all key starters were playing. And we still went 1-4.

So now that injuries have caught up with us, I don’t care. So if the team didn’t throw away the season by giving away those 4 early games we could presumably have weathered this storm of recent injuries and be very healthy again in time for the playoffs. We still haven’t lost anyone important for the season.

by MikeCampy on Dec 16, 2011 5:22 PM EST reply actions

Pretty Much. You can name a lot of problems with this team and a lot of reasons for losing (play calling, missed oppurtunities, lacking effort, lacking talent, mistakes, etc), but injuries isn’t something one that immediately comes to mind.

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He had a black eye one day, but he wouldn’t say just what happened to him
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by Snax on Dec 16, 2011 5:25 PM EST up reply actions

Injuries have definitely hurt. I see the Eagles beating the Cardinals and Seahawks with a healthy Michael Vick at the helm, giving them two more wins and having them right in the thick of the NFC East playoff picture.

Can the season’s woes totally be written off to injuries? Shit no, but those two wins could’ve changed the season dramatically.

by mvict on Dec 16, 2011 5:25 PM EST via mobile reply actions

Actually

I think this might be one of the Eagles healthier years in recent memory. Yeah losing Vick, Maclin, Peters, Cole, etc. for a short stretch of time has hurt, but it could be worse. The wild card is of course losing Vick for three games plus not finishing a couple of games. That was a big blow and probably could’ve changed the outcome of at least two games. But overall we haven’t lost a ton of key guys to IR. Not like the Giants and some other teams this year (or recently).

by Smitty2K3 on Dec 16, 2011 5:32 PM EST reply actions

I’m assuming that they aren’t taking into account the effect of the missing players on the team, like Peyton or Cutler and Forte.

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by KByars on Dec 16, 2011 5:47 PM EST reply actions

What do you mean? I think that’s exactly what they’re taking in to account

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by JasonB on Dec 16, 2011 6:33 PM EST up reply actions

Hoo boy. The more stuff I see KByars post the more my zero key gets ground down. At this point it’s just a little nub.

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by IggleGreen on Dec 16, 2011 6:38 PM EST up reply actions

The rankings don’t seem right is what I mean.

AR should have to wear a Flava Flav necklace until he learns how to manage a clock.
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by KByars on Dec 16, 2011 10:24 PM EST up reply actions

Before the season I was convinced the only thing that could slow us down was injuries. Woops.

by groot on Dec 16, 2011 6:57 PM EST reply actions

Yes I thought EXACTLY the same thing.

I came to the PE.com website every night during training camp. The only thing I looked at was the injury news… If nobody was carted off grabbing their knee, I was happy.

I was so grateful that the team was 100% at the start of the season, convinced the team would be unstoppable.

And then the 4th quarter of the Falcons game happened. That drove me absolutely nuts, but I thought it was a ridiculous conspiracy of bad luck and couldn’t possibly happen more than once.

And then…

FAIL

by MikeCampy on Dec 16, 2011 7:08 PM EST up reply actions

Haha, yep, same here. Since we had such a good offseason (or so I thought) I was sure we’d have a huge injury or two. When it didn’t happen I was so optimistic.

Sigh.

by groot on Dec 16, 2011 10:25 PM EST up reply actions