Here's a picture of New England's starting 5 offensive linemen yesterday
http://www.patriots....dc-74a0d090ffdb
With the exception of Logan Mankins left knee, 9 out of the 10 knees of the New England offensive line are wearing a heavy-duty knee brace.
Outside of Eric Wood, no offensive linemen on the Bills wears a knee brace. Kraig Urbik went down yesterday with a knee injury, not surprising he wasn't wearing a knee brace. Is this a coincidence?
The DonJoy armor series knee brace, http://www.djoglobal...ts/donjoy/armor, runs around $1,000 each. Couldn't an argument be made that spending $2,000 for 2 good knee braces help protect your $500,000 or more per season player investment? Is this a question that is best suited for the analytics dept?
The following links are 2013 GameDay pictures of all Bills linemen showing if knee brace is present:
#74 Colin Brown - no knee braces - http://espn.go.com/n...1/buffalo-bills
#59 Doug Legursky - no knee brace - hurt knee http://cdn0.sbnation...ndard_352.0.jpg
#70 Eric Wood - 2/2 knee brace present - http://www.buffalobi...9e-c29472eb112a
#60 Kraig Urbik - 0/2 no knee brace present - http://espn.go.com/n...1/buffalo-bills
#71 Sam Young - 0/2 no knee brace present - http://espn.go.com/n...5/buffalo-bills
#77 Cordy Glenn - 0/2 no knee brace present - http://www.buffalone...22009998&Ref=PH
#79 Erik Pears - 0/2 no knee brace present - http://espn.go.com/n...4/buffalo-bills
#66 Thomas Welch - 0/2 no knee brace present - http://espn.go.com/n...9/buffalo-bills