In reply to: Below are some quotes from a 2001 article on Kadish posted by Moff
article because (albeit 22 years old) it is behind a paywall, but one additional thing he said was how the doctors on the sideline would simply ask how many fingers they were holding up. He said unless you were knocked out, you were going back in.
As I mentioned in another post, when a simulation video was posted the other day on Twitter purporting to show how much the brain sloshes around just by a hit to the forehead with a hand, TB responded that hits like the one depicted happen at least 30-40 times per game for a lineman.
full-go practices at least 3 times a week were the norm as recent as 15 years ago for many programs. Back in my day (early 90s) it was 4 days a week.
That shit adds up.