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The original was posted on /r/nfl by /u/TheFencingCoach on 2023-09-14 14:52:42.

Original Title: [Wood] David Bakhtiari believes Aaron Rodgers’ ruptured Achilles could have been prevented playing on grass, especially because Rodgers was wearing molded cleats. Asked him what about Rodgers’ injury was aggravated by turf.

Full answer:

"I’m not a doctor. I don’t think that it was the sole reason, but I think anyone who can observe the play

  • and I can tell you from personal experience - if you don’t wear turf shoes and you’re wearing molded or especially detached, and your cleats go in the ground, they will be stuck there. That’s why some of these young guys who are young, light, they absolutely love it. I know Aaron Jones is a huge fan of it because they can grip, and then it turns into a track meet. I can’t stand it because it means generating more force, more power into me for guys who want to do bull rushes, and then also for pass rushers some of them like it because they can turn corners better. That’s the pro. The con that comes with it is you’ve got to understand the force going through your body, not only what you’re generating through your joints and your ankle, your knee and your hip, but also the force being applied to that opponent, and then what they have to do to counteract that. There is a lot of force going around.

That’s why this game wasn’t constructed on the blacktop, it was constructed on grass. Going back to that point with Aaron, you see his foot gets stuck in there, and it doesn’t come out. In my honest opinion, I think on grass - I think you could have had a different outcome. You could. I’m not eluding that it 100 percent would have or wouldn’t have, but I would have rather seen it on grass and then just chalked it up to, ‘That’s football.’ Because, right now, there’s another variable. You can’t change anything else in that situation other than the surface, and that’s the one thing we know that can add to injuries. You can’t change anything about Aaron’s body or Aaron’s age or anything like that, or the play. But you can change the surface.”