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[QUOTE="leftytg, post: 2513198, member: 2651"]
you're falling into the trap of equating "injury prone? with weakness or physical defect, which isn't the same as Cusester points out above.  Dungey is injury prone because of his playing style.  I don't see how that can even be debated.  You mention the types of hits it took to injure him.  I agree.  What you are missing is that he was absorbing more hits and harder hits than he needed to because of his playing style.  The Clemson game, for instance, rather than going down he was stretching out for more yards when he got blasted.  WR's, RB's, anyone who handles the ball learns how to protect themselves, or else they don't stay on the field.

Part of playing the game at this level is protecting yourself.  Dungey doesn't protect himself like he should, which makes him injury prone.  A big part of why NFL QB's don't run the same way is because teams want to protect their QB's.  It is simple - the more you expose yourself to big hits the more likely one of those big hits will take you out.  A QB is always going to take a measure of big hits by virtue of the position he plays.  Recklessly taking more than necessary is the issue.

I'm not, nor have ever said Dungey is fragile or weak or physically deficient.  I said he was injury prone, the same way I would say that a perfectly healthy person who likes to juggle chainsaws while riding blindfold on a bicycle in highway traffic is injury prone - their choices make injury inevitable.
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