That being said, I believe this satement was made in a moment of rage, and presented a problem that Rog could think of no way to handle. Thus, he blurted out the first thing that came to his mind, and without even thinking about how dumb of an idea it was, or the fact that this is going to make him look even more the fool, had his secretary send it out to all the teams. Now the press has it, and I really don’t see how they’re going to get out of this debacle.

It sucks when a player gets injured. I like to see highly competitive games, so I like when everybody (including my opponents) are at full health. But, if someone gets injured, there should be something given to the other team when that injury interferes with their game strategy. It goes both ways; an injury on the offense should not give the offense time to get their play together beyond the play clock. If they don’t want to take timeouts away, then a 5-yard penalty would be fine, IMO. Delay of game is a delay of game, especially if it turns out that the player fakes the injury just to buy some time.

That having been said, it’s pretty sad that you’d have to fake an injury (be it the Patriots or not), because your D or O-line isn’t prepared enough to deal with no-huddle offense.

People who love to foam at the mouth over the whole ‘spygate’ thing, should certainly be just as vocal about this, since it is, for all intents and purposes, cheating.

They already have lawsuits against them by former players about them not doing enough to prevent concussions and head injuries. I’m sure those lawyers would LOVE to be able to enter into evidence a current example of the NFL fining somebody for supposedly faking an injury, along with a doctor’s report about how the guy actually was hurt.

Pretty odd that they gave up 38 points 5 weeks prior and the only 14 in the Super Bowl. Injury faking CHEATERS!

Super Bowl XLII Champs*

Haha

Any player, and or players, that are “injured” during the game, whether real or not, have to sit out a minimum, predetermined amount of time much more serious than the “one play” as it now stands.

For example, if a player is injured, real or not, make the sit out last at least the following possession. Less people will hit the turf if they know they’re about to miss nearly a quarter of play for doing it.

If Bill “I Use My Post On The Competition Committee To Shepherd Rules Changes That Will Benefit The Colts” Polian didn’t get anything done about this after 2006, nobody will ever get it changed. I did hear one guy saying that they could change the rule on injuries to “you come out injured, you don’t get to go back in for the rest of that defensive series.” This would definitely deter a defense from faking injuries.

Perhaps they could reduce that to you can’t come back in for 4 plays. The fake injuries usually happen after a first down conversion and this would guarantee that an injured player have a least a set of downs to “recover” before going back in.

Of course, I’m referring to defensive injuries. Faked injuries are very rare on offense. Maybe you’re out of timeouts and want to give the FG team time to get on the field without rushing things. I can’t think of too many other scenarios where it’s an issue on offense.

The 5-yard delay of game penalty and automatic first down would be for an ‘injured’ player on defense.

The game should be stopped for injured players, but there must be an end of the games being played against teams with high powered offenses by defenses that are faking.

Rules for inside 2 minutes should continue – offense loses 10 seconds but should also lose a game injury timeout; defense should lose game injury timeout AND be penalized 5 yards and an immediate clock stoppage as if the offense had called a timeout with clock resuming when the ball is hiked. Again, any injury resulting from a flagged offense of personal foul shall not be counted in the under 2 minute period of each half or overtime period.

that’ll slow it down…

I can see pros and cons for that in football, which, as a one-play-at-a-time sport, is a bit different. Wonder what anyone else thinks of the idea.

Currently if a player is ‘injured’ on a play they have to sit out at least one play before re-entering the game.

That’s not enough of a detriment to keep some who needs a break (or who knows 3 of his brothers in battle need breaks) from taking a dive… they’re doing it either because they need to regroup or need a rest… That’s exactly what is granted via a fake injury.

Instead, increase the ‘consequences’ for getting injured to missing the remainder of the quarter OR 5 minutes of game time, whichever is GREATER.

If the injury occurs within the final two minutes of the game, the player may not re-enter the game AND the team will be charged a timeout.

You will not see so many cramps, tweaked ankles, or other unverifable injuries when a player must miss a significant portion of the game.

This isn’t soccer and you don’t live in Cleveland.

However trainers failed to mention that they were MENSTRUAL CRAMPS, because that was the biggest P*SSY MOVE I’ve ever seen.

It’s just smart to use that tactic once in a while… The Giants are just fools for making it so obvious.

As a Patriots fan, it’s great news that the league is scaring teams away from faking injuries since it looks like Brady and Belichick want to run the no-huddle on every possession.

$750k in fines and the loss of a first round draft pick seems to have ended that practice rather quickly. And if I recall correctly the existence of the said memo being sent around was used to justify the fine and loss of pick as a penalty.

Perhaps the league is sending the memo around and will use it to make an example out of a team for fake injuries?