Quote:I think that's the opposite of the reaction the coaching staff should have.  Everyday you can wake up and search for a news story about how a perfectly normal driver got smashed by another car through no fault of their own on their way to work.  If you use that excuse to not start your car and get into work, you're not going to have a very successful career.

Exactly.  If you don't practice in these drills to work on technique and assignments, you are more exposed to injury.  This mentality that we need to water down non-contact drills is the same mindset that says everyone should get a trophy for participating even if they don't win.  It's the "estrogenization" of sports.  The biggest advocates of watering down practices probably have a closet full of mom jeans.

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