When Arian Foster tweeted a pic of his X-ray, he was criticized on NFL network. Former players admitted that if they knew a player had an injury they would give that area a little extra attention. Maybe coach is trying to help his players avoid that, if they can practice and produce then why give opposing teams any incentive to put that player out?

1) The NFLPA needs to get better representation. If players don’t want to be on the injury report for things like this then they need to actually negotiate it out of the rules.

2) The reason this rule exists in the first place is because injury information is valuable to gamblers and bookmakers. The NFL is trying to avoid a huge potential scandal by erring on the side of caution and making too much information available.

If not, one could make a pretty good argument that the injury reports violate medical privacy laws.

I would sue them and I am pretty sure they would win.

So not only does it defer teams from targeting a specific player, it also keeps them from going after a specific injured body part.

So injury report or not, the line would presumably be adjusted accordingly, right? Introduces some more uncertainty but at the end of the day, what is “certain” in NFL betting anyway? Might as well just do right by the players. We bettors will figure out how to cope.

EVERY incompletion he angrily berates the refs, looking for a flag. Every Ravens penalty, he bellows. He even implies the “refs are out to get us,” even though – last year – the Ravens’ opponents recieved more penalties than ANY team in the league.

He’s a crybaby.

The fact is if they don’t release the injury report gambling interests will bribe the information out of someone and create a huge, corrupt black hole in the sport.

Once somebody takes a bribe to release injury info the criminals own them and can force them to do much more damaging things.

But go ahead, keep believing that the only reason for the report is to “help the gambling interests”, its easier than actually trying to, you know, understand something.

If a player goes on the radio and says he’s injured, there’s a good chance he’s received some treatment for it and the team’s aware of it.

Bravo!

Standing ovation to Harbaugh for saying what should have been said long ago.

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I agree. And had he said it long ago, or at least long before he was fined for it, his words would have had more authority. Now it just sounds like he is whining about it because he got caught.

The Ravens are a class organization. Pay the fine and get on with the business of trying to win football games. Harbaugh has made his point. Time to move on.