re: FYI: There were more injuries among the top 20 "slow-paced" teams last season...

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Saban's argument is that more plays = more injuries. Therefore defense/offense shouldn't matter

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I generally agree. Assuming there is a certain % of injury on any given play, then running more plays would directly lead to more injuries; however, this doesn't really work in practice. Teams that run the HUNH are conditioned for such an offense and are generally in better shape for such plays. This would in theory drive the % for an injury on any given play down (as is correlated by the stats). The problem lies for the defenses that are not used to such an offense. They have the higher % of injury per play of a "slow" team due to not being conditioned for the HUNH. This would result in a higher likely hood of an injury occurring in any given game against a team that ran the HUNH.


That said, I think anyone bitching about the HUNH is just bitching to gain an advantage instead of adapting.