So, Where Was This Fake Injury 'Outrage' When Everyone And Their Mother Did It To Stop The Colts?

It’s not realistic because the NFL will never take the chance that a ref might assume a real injury is just a player faking it.

What they can do though is require that the injured player sit out a certain number of plays. It would be a step in the right direction.

A Saints player, defensive tackle Hargrove goes down after Manning had attempted 6 consecutive passes in the SB down 17-24 going no huddle for the most part.

The next play is the Tracy Porter pick six. No one talks about what happened before the pick six.

Then Hargrove comes back and spears Addai on the ground to get a 15 yard penalty the next drive.

Only way to somewhat stop this is to force a team to either take a timeout or have the player miss an entire series (till the next first down or punt happens, whichever is earlier). That will reduce it thought not stop it altogether.

Cuz of the 4 letter network and mainstream sports media.

Everytime i have seen the fake injury story on the 4 letter network I ask where was thr outrage in 2003 when McGinest did it agaisnt he Colts…and ALL th3 other times it has happened since then.

When it happens in the 4 letter networks backyard, well THATS when it becomes important…typical biased media

I think players that are injured, should actually be forced to miss the rest of the current drive and the drive after. Realistically, if you are injured (i.e. a cramp is not an injury…) enough to fall on the field, then you should need to be checked out. Notice that during times when teams would be penalized (i.e. lose timeouts) in the final two minutes of the half and game, players don’t just go down with injury, you will see many hopping off with ankle problems/etc. I don’t think one series is enough as they could be on a goal line stand and may not have much more to the drive. I think it also makes it more obvious if a team were sending players off the bench to feign injury.

On a side note, I forgot how it was to feel good about Jim Caldwell. Good feelings in 2009, until he was outcoached in the Superbowl.

What I personally find fascinating is the utter gall of New England Patriots players (like Tom Brady) complaining about the San Diego Chargers apparently ‘faking’ injuries on Sunday to slow down the Pats no-huddle

Except Brady did not complain. Whatever.

it’s a big deal because it’s affecting the darlings of the NFL: the New England Pats.

I dare you to not look around the sports media world and see one bad thing mentioned, (aside from some scant mentioning of some accusations brought against their storied franchise a few years back) about the Pats, their players, or their tactics. You may see a line here or there about the proverbial “window”, too… but then it’s quickly brushed aside.

Every sports news show I watch, every pregame show, every sports web site (SI.com mainly), seems to have nothing but words of praise and a severe case of some disease that makes them want to take Brady and shove him as far up their keisters as possible. While, even when we were doing well, it was nothing but comparisons and an almost curiosity towards how and or why we are even in the picture year after year. (Granted, this year has given every sports pundit carte blanch to just rip us to shreds)

It’s because of the Pats… plain and simple.

@frogfromthemud: he may not have been vocal, but standing over a downed man, injured or not, showing no signs of concern, shows a lot of gall when his team has benefited from the same act he is skeptical of in the past. His actions and body-language in doing so are physical embodiments of somebody with an immensely “entitled” attitude and short memory of their own actions of the past.

Brady’s a spoiled brat… eff the Pats.

I watched Kubiak run out onto the field to intercept a player jogging with a limp. Colts were running no huddle and a defensive player got knicked up. He was making his way off the field when Kubiak ran out, grabbed him and put him on the turf. He then waved on the trainers. Now the guy was truly hurt but he was also going to make it off the field just fine. I’m not sure if this could be seen on tv as I was in attendance.

Sounds like a lot of whining to me. Your contrived penalties that might be imposed on suspected injury-fakers are dumb and would only add more official involvement in a game that can hardly go two plays without a God damn flag !

If a faked injury slows a no-huddle offense down – so be it. If the offense is talented enough it will continue its advance down the field. If an offense stumbles when their rush to run a play is interupted, then that team’s offense has problems. The Patriots are using the no-huddle to great effect this season, others are using it with mixed results. Fans are bitching about the rather blatant “fakes” that the Giants employed on Monday night – the Rams were held to a field goal and they lost the game but, their offense kinda sucks anyway. If your team’s offense can be stymied by an occassional stopage of play then your team’s offense just ain’t good enough.

What pissed me off the most was two plays after his near death experience, and after stuffing us on 4th down. Mcginest was miraculously healed and sprinted three quarters of the field in celebration. If the pats wanna complain about it now its total hypocritical bullshit.

its so hard to watch those channels even when the colts are good. i think that if i ever met deion sanders in person i would punch him in the face and hope it left a permanent horse shoe on his face

If it’s not against the rules. And say you put in a rule about faking injuries? What if a player does actually get a severe injury and it looks like he’s trying to sell it. Or what if someone has a heart attack and goes down that looks like a fake injury? There’s not much that can be done about this.

If we stop watching garbage daytime sports shows, they’ll stop airing and talking about stupid shit just to fill time.

In this case, the video showed such an amazingly egregious example of football flopping, it was just too good to ignore. That first Giant that fell down and got right back up.. Priceless!

Play keeps going, the injured player gets treated on the field and his team plays a man down.