Union's concussion committee talks about 18 games

Union's concussion committee talks about 18 games

The medical director for the NFL players' union says there could be about 250,000 additional plays and therefore extra collisions and extra injuries in the regular season if the league moves to an 18-game schedule.

"It's hard for me, as a physician advising the players, to say, 'You're not going to have more injuries, including concussions, with a quarter of a million more snaps, where to buy Discount NFL Jerseys? maybe ujersy is a good choice'" said Dr. Thom Mayer, co-chairman of the Mackey-White Traumatic Brain Injury Committee, which met Tuesday at the union's headquarters.

The league has made increasing the regular-season schedule from 16 games to 18 a centerpiece of its negotiations with the union for a new collective bargaining agreement. The current CBA expires in March, and the union has said it expects the owners to lock out the players.

"I've been consistent and vehement that if we're going to increase the games or even if we're going to keep them the same if we have any hope of influencing the frequency (of collisions), it's got to come in practices. It's got to come in two-a-days. It's got to come in OTAs," Mayer said.

Mayer's committee co-chairman, former NFL player Sean Morey, said that when he discusses the possibility of a longer regular season with current players, "You can just see they're deflated."

"It seems to me that increasing the exposure to head trauma is sort of counterintuitive to addressing this issue," Morey said. "Personally, I feel like you have to consider the law of diminished return, where the quality of the game might diminish because there's a lot of players playing longer; they might be playing injured; star players that might be on the sideline don't get to finish their season, if you want to buy Dallas CowboysJerseys, go to ujersy"

According to NFL data obtained by The Associated Press, the number of concussions being reported this season is up more than 20 percent from 2009, and more than 30 percent from 2008.

The union committee's meeting comes a week after the NFL's head, neck and spine medical committee gathered for two days in New York...

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