addressed the power-plant point<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cI kind of buy it,\u201d Bourne said. \u201cI\u2019m a conspiracy theorist, so I don\u2019t know. Our grass is brown on that side and the soccer field on the other side is green. So that kind of trips me out a little bit, but I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s so much research they probably have to do, but whatever we can do to help prevent injuries, we got to look into. So [G.M.] John [Lynch] said he\u2019s gonna do it, and I think he will. So it\u2019s just crazy that that\u2019s even a thing, but that thing is a crazy, like, I was looking at it one time at practice, and I just was like randomly kind of getting dozed off. Like, that thing is huge. Like, it\u2019s carrying real power. So I don\u2019t know if they can crank it more. crank it less, but I think it\u2019s serious. I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kostos asked whether other players agree that it\u2019s a thing. <\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody\u2019s different,\u201d Bourne said. \u201cEverybody\u2019s different. Some people don\u2019t care. Some people talk about it. Some people talk about it more than others, but I\u2019m just one of those trolls that like, \u2018Man, nah, bro, something ain\u2019t right.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Again, the whole topic feels like social media-driven bullshit, with all due respect. The 49ers have practiced there since 1988. Football is inherently physical and demanding. Injuries happen for a bunch of different reasons.<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t a rash of broken kneecaps in the break room at Dunder Mifflin. Football players get injured while practicing and playing football. The challenge for the 49ers is to treat this as not simply a medical issue but as a P.R. issue to and say, loudly and clearly, that it\u2019s not an issue \u2014 and that anyone who suggests otherwise is cuckoo for power-plant Cocoa Puffs.<\/p>\n
It may be too late for that. The only complete fix at this point may be to move to a new practice facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The notion that the 49ers\u2019 uptick in injuries flows from the proximity of an electrical substation to their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-453480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}