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During his first team meeting as coach of the Jets in 1997, Bill Parcells seized his players' attention by holding aloft a thick three-ring binder. It was not a playbook It was the team's injury report from the '96 season, when the Jets went 1-15 under Rich Kotite.
Punt this, Parcells said. Things were going to change. The Jets weren't going to suffer a mass of broken bones, torn ligaments and pulled muscles on his watch. Parcells believes firmly there is a correlation between the quality of a team's offseason program and the injury factor during the season. So every player would participate fully in his offseason workout program--or else.
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