Originally posted by theduke85:I agree. For example, look at the Vikings and Adrian Peterson: if Adrian Peterson played for the 49ers how do you think they would've handled his injury? Chances are they would've put him on IR. The Vikings abstained from doing so, and now he's back in time for the playoff run. Like you alluded to, there wouldn't have been incentive in the Niners getting a player like that back.Originally posted by TheWooLick:The 49ers have 15 players on IR, there are 11 other teams who have as many or more players on IR. It is bad but not out of the ordinary.
Bad teams put more players on IR because these players have nothing to play for so there is no reason to risk injuring them further.
Many of the IR players were "redshirt stashes" -- Dres Anderson, DeAndre Smelter, Busta Anderson, Trey Millard, Keith Reaser, Kaleb Ramsey, Kenneth Acker, Luke Marquardt, Brandon Thomas. We can't cry poor fortune on injuries when we're either drafting injured players, or coming up with make-believe injuries to stash them away.
Then you look through the list and realize that there are a lot of bad players on it. Thad Lewis? Chuck Jacobs? Fou Fonoti? Shaun Draughn? Michael Wilhoite? Shayne Skov? Nick Bellore? Chris Davis? Seriously, who cares? These are like fringe practice squad players.
IMO looking at total IR players is extremely misleading. There are many reasons that our counts are inflated.
Agree 100%
The injury excuse rings hollow this year.