Guardian caps for practice?

I just tried using Dall-E 2 to generate an image of a Michigan football player wearing a fedora and failed miserably.  Switching to a borsalino didn't yield any better results.

Obviously, I need help.

It’s a Stanzo…they’re nice.

They said concussions are down like 50% in NFL camps this season ... but they also control those stats. Who knows

A Guardian cap won't do a whole lot to mitigate a high-impact blow to the head, but it should help to some degree with the low-impact collisions that happen regularly (particularly on the lines) and which can have a cumulative effect.

I do think they should (and likely will, eventually) use them in games also.

As a high school coach whose team uses Guardian Caps, they're supposed to reduce the impact to the brain by about 33%. Last year we had just two diagnosed concussions during practice - which was a large reduction from the previous years - and both of them were due to odd circumstances.

On one of them, the player was running, tripped, and fell flat on his face with his facemask slamming into the ground, and there's no Guardian Cap in place to cover the facemask. 

On the other one, an offensive lineman was way too high when being asked to trap and he didn't move his head out of the way, and he ran full speed into another player's helmet. One got concussed and the other didn't, but the player used poor technique, which led to the concussion. So the Guardian Cap didn't really work, but also...the player screwed up. Poor technique - when you don't use your head properly - is going to cause problems, which is why we try to teach proper technique.

Anyway, the point is that the Guardian Caps work. They're not perfect. Seat belts don't reduce fatalities to zero. But they do help a good deal.

Wait, what? So the inside of the helmet is a pillow which helps, but also putting a pillow on the outside won't do any good? Sounds like you've done a lot of research and testing to come to this conclusion. 

if they don't use them that is better for team building 

What does one have to do with the other?  

If a player has a history of concussions, the wearing a Guardian cap in practice should be more than "highly recommended".  The word 'mandatory' comes to mind...

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