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.
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.
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.
https://youtu.be/BB_o7gp8HIw?si=rV_cw5eLjfOMMOrE
See what the Kelce brothers have to say about artificial turf.
If teams started resting starters there, the league would respond.
Still remember when that field effectively ended our 2020 season in Week 2, Mostert was one of the many many injuries that game
Fuuuuuuck Metlife
that field was torn out this past offseason
Holland is unaware that the turf is different than the turf that was there. They replaced the turf prior to the season with field turf core
The same turf is used in Atlanta and New England as well as Notre Dame and Texas.
I’m not saying the turf is fine but it’s incredibly irresponsible of the media to not mention these facts as if it’s left over turf from the Vet in Philly or something.
The media feeds into these types of stories intentionally, because discord gets attention.
Or when Nick Chubb’s leg died. That was grass. Crickets. It’s just confirmation bias
There’s a huge difference between a non-contact catastrophic leg injury vs some guy rolling up on someone’s leg and fucking it up.
Look at the flair, you can’t expect to have a logical conversation…
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
blame Mara. can’t even blame Woody for this one…
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.
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.
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.
Players come together and refuse to play is the only way I see the nfl taking this seriously. That’s going to be incredibly hard tho since players indeed want their game checks lol
nfl needs to mandate grass
Meanwhile Kenyans can run barefoot all through Africa at great distances and speeds
Who gives a shit
-ownership