The turf at MetLife is notoriously terrible. Remember when the Niners played there week 2 of 2020: we lost Nick Bosa and Solomon Thomas both to ACL tears, plus Jimmy G to a high ankle sprain, and Raheem Mostert and Tevin Coleman both to additional knee injuries. Losing our best defender (the reigning DPOY at the time) and hobbling the starting QB for much of the year derailed that entire season. Five knee/ankle soft tissue injuries caused at least in part by the crappy, grabby turf.
I understand there was new turf installed this year - but it is still turf, it is not grass.
The fact that the Jets AND Giants play there means there is twice the financial backing for field maintenance not to mention twice the team investment to protect against injury. (Same goes for LAR/C and SoFi btw.)
So the Jets pay a bunch for Aaron Rodgers, clearly setting their sights on the Super Bowl. All in, they're all in. And four offensive plays into the year, they've effectively crapped out. (Zach Wilson is not winning the Super Bowl this year guys.) Yes that's football, but also if you're all in, like spending hundreds of millions of dollars on this one goal, don't you want to go all in in every controllable facet?
I'll never know if grass would have prevented this injury, but maybe? If players themselves are calling for grass instead of turf, it's got to mean something.
Really crazy stuff, man.
