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I mean, it's rough," Sherman responded. "It's rough on the body. Any time you play a football game and play another one a few days later, it's going to be tough on the body. But it's just another one of those things. Another one of those simple contradictions of the league, because they care about us."
The half-week between the Seahawks’ Week 6 and 7 contests means that players will have three fewer days than normal to rest and rehab their injuries, with many being thrown back into the fire before their bodies have properly recovered from the previous matchup’s beating.
Sherman is not the first to call the NFL on what SBNation deemed the
“hypocritical” nature of Thursday Night Football. In a league whose party line is seemingly
we do care about player safety, players from Green Bay to Houston have all pointed out the tension between the NFL’s PR-conscious statements on safety and the grind of suiting up two times in five days. While Packers offensive lineman Josh Sitton said last year that Thursday Night Football is “
all about money,” Houston Texan running back Arian Foster announced just weeks later that it puts “
every player on the field in danger.”
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