Football injuries (american)

[Freemymind93]

Do you think that in football, you can blame a loss on a key player getting injured? I was thinking about this since Colt McCoy got hurt last night and Texas lost.

[Trunks]

If my team loses and a few starters are injured I don't mention it. Atleast I try not to say anyting about it. Every team gets injuries, if you say "They only lost because blah blah was hurt" It's just an excuse because they lost.

[HamadaLFC8]

Well it doesn't really matter what sport we're talking about if it's Soccer, American Football, Basketball or others, a really good team should keep winning if a couple of players are injured. I mean that's what makes a good team right ? It's the whole team, if I'd just have 3 extremely good players and the rest is average I won't win anything will I ? Except if these 3 players stay in superb form throughout the season.

[Trunks]

well basketball, 3 really good players can easily win a lot of games, if the other 2 are terrible. in football it's kind of different. If your QB is injured he's the one who starts/runs the plays so if you have a terrible back up, you won't win lol.

[HamadaLFC8]

Ok I barely know anything about basketball so I'll take that back =p

[Iceskater101]

Lol I said it depends
just because for football like trunks said if the QB is injured you do have a less chance of winning the game
but on the other hand, in basketball you could have like 2 good players on a team and the rest aren't as good, and one of them gets injured you can't use the excuse because the team probably would have lost anyway

[thedeparted]

excuses are excuses. when you have a starter go down you should have someone that can step in and fill the void. It's Texas fault that they put in a inexperienced freshman. One other note, man for being #1 against the run, the longhorns sure were ran over.

[Jaykub]

who cares? its only texas

[xmtxm]

Well it doesn't really matter what sport we're talking about if it's Soccer, American Football, Basketball or others, a really good team should keep winning if a couple of players are injured. I mean that's what makes a good team right ? It's the whole team, if I'd just have 3 extremely good players and the rest is average I won't win anything will I ? Except if these 3 players stay in superb form throughout the season.


Thank you. Its a team not a person team. People need to stop making excuses and accept the fact they lost. And not blame it on something.

[Charlotte]

it's giving the another team change. :L

[Samus-Fan]

In Football, it's a team game for a reason
One person gets injured, it's no excuse, the players should be trained to be a good team.
A "good" team doesn't have 1 great guy.
It has a team full of great guys.

This is why I don't like Basketball, with 5 people on the court, having ONE great guy (LeBron on the Cavs) CAN and WILL make a difference, so it's barely a team game.