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Panthers, Bears hit the hardest

Pro Football Weekly

Tuesday, December 7, 2004

It's the nature of the NFL beast. Week by week, players at every position keep dropping like flies, their bodies brutalized by the high-speed collisions that have become a fact of life in a sport featuring bigger and stronger athletes with every passing season. As one respected NFL head trainer so aptly put it, "It's auto racing with humans." As a result, NFL players have never been subjected to greater injury risks. "There's no secrets," CBS NFL analyst Phil Simms told PFW in late October. " ...

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