Jevon Holland: Since being in the league I’ve heard that field is trash
Raheem Mostert: We’ve got to do something about this turf. Something has to change.
I am not discounting the issue with the turf, but it is rich that the Dolphins would complain about a stadium and its turf when they built a stadium that purposefully hurts the opposing team.
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Please educate me if need be, but how does the turf affect the injury here? It was just normal movement at the snap, that could happen anywhere.
I was wondering this as well. I want the league to move to grass simply because the players want it, but this seems like a total freak accident. Either way it sucks, and I hope he comes back strong and quickly. He’s been through a lot over coming injuries.
Grass in MetLife just isn’t feasible - moving to grass would be significantly worse than the current (updated) turf.
Patriots play there Sunday 😐
Gillette uses the company fieldturf as well lol
Damn… then why does MetLife get all the hate?
Because people are dumb and parrot everything they hear
They shouldn’t allow turf outdoors and teams that use turf should subsidize the teams that use grass so there’s not a cost advantage.
I worked at MetLife and when I was on the turf I literally felt like it was trash
nfl needs to mandate grass
blame Mara. can’t even blame Woody for this one…
Nothing will change unless the players take a stand and refuse to play on turf. They’ll just complain every time someone tears an ACL or pops an Achilles and then move on to the next news topic in a few days.
Wish the players would strike over artificial turf.
it’s so bad I’m hoping the Eagles have the 1 seed locked up and don’t need to risk injury to a starter (not that I want a backup to get hurt) on that dumpster fire of a field. The NFL can harp about player safety all they want, but I don’t buy it as long as that field is around.
I personally want there to be two selections and it is consistent across the league. If you choose turf it is this 1 company and 1 config, if grass 1 blend of seed. That way it can create more of a consistent test criteria of variables.
Then in say 5 years if turf is main culprit. Everyone gets grass.
That will never work.
I understand what you’re trying to say, but grass isn’t grass. What grows in Arizona in Dec won’t grow in the north east.
Grass grows differently in Pittsburgh than it does in Arizona or Miami. 1 blend of seed would be nearly impossible.
Nobody should be playing on fully artificial turf. Hybrid at a minimum if they need the longevity. You share $12bn/yr between 32 teams, with a total of $20bn in revenue. You can afford to pay for a stadiums with a safe playing surface.
https://youtu.be/BB_o7gp8HIw?si=rV_cw5eLjfOMMOrE
See what the Kelce brothers have to say about artificial turf.
People are jumping on the narrative, but Metlife literally changed their turf in the offseason. It’s the same one used in Detroit and Atlanta. Nobody complains about those.
The issue is that athletes go so hard nowadays and their bodies can’t handle it. If you watched the broadcast, they literally mentioned that Phillips had actually retired due to injuries in college before deciding to come back. But people want to blame the turf? Metlife has not had nearly the amount of non-contact injuries it had in the past. It’s just easy to blame the turf because people don’t want to think about whether athletes are going too hard these days.