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Report: Coaches discussing rule to curb faking injuries during game

Nearly impossible to regulate IMO
It should be easy to regulate, just not fair.

If we have to stop the clock for the player to be able to leave the field, that players stay out the rest of that drive. That includes fakers and players that are actually hurt. Not really fair to the injured players but then all rules and regulations are made to stop someone from trying to gain an edge or bend a rule.
 

It should be easy to regulate, just not fair.

If we have to stop the clock for the player to be able to leave the field, that players stay out the rest of that drive. That includes fakers and players that are actually hurt. Not really fair to the injured players but then all rules and regulations are made to stop someone from trying to gain an edge or bend a rule.
“If we have to stop the clock”none of you see the arbitrariness of a rule like this .

It isn’t “we” it is an official who may see a player maybe just slow to get up and he blows the whistle and voila, official essentially plays doctor and jury right there. The very people in the official game day thread who complains on every play to call a penalty are willing to give the same officials this kind of clout

I would be more inclined to have the rule with the exception the team could put the player back in on the same drive but it would burn a Timeout.
 
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“If we have to stop the clock”none of you see the arbitrariness of a rule like this .

It isn’t “we” it is an official who may see a player maybe just slow to get up and he blows the whistle and voila, official essentially plays doctor and jury right there. The very people in the official game day thread who complains on every play to call a penalty are willing to give the same officials this kind of clout

I would be more inclined to have the rule with the exception the team could put the player back in on the same drive but it would burn a Timeout.
I suppose an official could blow a fast whistle if he wanted to get someone off the field. I was thinking more for the player that was actually hurt and forced to sit out a series just because there was a rule for those faking injury.
 
A series I could live with, still don't like it though. Just one man's opinion. Faking, flopping, etc has always been an issue, moreso in football now with high tempo, I get that. I just don't want it to be too punitive if the injury is legit is all.
I don't know if there are any members on the board who are old enough to remember this, but back in the day the substitution rules weren't nearly as liberal as they've been in the last 60 years. Used to be you had to pretty much be carried out on a stretcher for a sub to come in.

In other words, if you're not badly injured, rub a little dirt on it and keep playing. If an injury is bad enough to stop the clock, you need to spend some time on the sideline.
 

It should be easy to regulate, just not fair.

If we have to stop the clock for the player to be able to leave the field, that players stay out the rest of that drive. That includes fakers and players that are actually hurt. Not really fair to the injured players but then all rules and regulations are made to stop someone from trying to gain an edge or bend a rule.
Absolutely it’s fair. If the game has to be stopped because you’re injured it is not unreasonable to think that the injured player should have to sit out for a few plays. Player safety alone should be caution enough to do this. And yes, this is “legislating behavior” for a few who have abused this process.
 
“If we have to stop the clock”none of you see the arbitrariness of a rule like this .

It isn’t “we” it is an official who may see a player maybe just slow to get up and he blows the whistle and voila, official essentially plays doctor and jury right there. The very people in the official game day thread who complains on every play to call a penalty are willing to give the same officials this kind of clout

I would be more inclined to have the rule with the exception the team could put the player back in on the same drive but it would burn a Timeout.
It’s not asking the official to do anything that he/she isn't doing already. And the issue is if the player and his injury requires the play clocked to be stopped. Could a ref be quick on the whistle there … maybe … but is it the worst thing to err on the side of caution?

If a player has a cramp and the play is stopped asking him to sit out a series isn’t an unreasonable request. And if you want to blame someone for the necessity of this blame Tom Allen and his son Thomas … and other like minded cheaters
 
I suppose an official could blow a fast whistle if he wanted to get someone off the field. I was thinking more for the player that was actually hurt and forced to sit out a series just because there was a rule for those faking injury.
What kind of injury is rectifiable in 30 seconds, or a minute?
 
What kind of injury is rectifiable in 30 seconds, or a minute?
Well I got a few little rubber beads in my eye. Over on the sideline they rinsed my eye out quick and it was fine.

Of course with this rule in place I'd just cover my eye with one hand and run to the sideline so they didn't stop the clock.

I can see all the guys hopping to the sideline on one leg hoping they won't stop the clock so they don't have to sit out longer then they have to.

Two DBs run into each other and both lay there long enough they stop the clock, now both sit out the drive.
 


Well I got a few little rubber beads in my eye. Over on the sideline they rinsed my eye out quick and it was fine.

Of course with this rule in place I'd just cover my eye with one hand and run to the sideline so they didn't stop the clock.

I can see all the guys hopping to the sideline on one leg hoping they won't stop the clock so they don't have to sit out longer then they have to.

Two DBs run into each other and both lay there long enough they stop the clock, now both sit out the drive.
Well... In those cases, you know they're not faking it.
 
Or you have kids not getting the help they really need or team mates help carry them off so they don’t sit the whole series. Unintended consequences. Like the theory but not sure how it’s enforced and who does it. Like the HS concussion rule Nebraska had. 3 diagnosed concussion and you were done playing permanently. Guess what happened. No one went to get treatment anymore unless they were unconscious. Literally heard a parent say my kid will never go to the doctor for a concussion. Can’t take a chance it gets diagnosed and has to give up sports. Yes there is a lot wrong there, but with scholarship s and now NIL, things will happen.
 
The article says "if a player is injured during a game, he’ll have to be sidelined for the remainder of the drive."

How many times have you seen a player tap their helmet or hop or hobble towards their sideline and the coaches tell them to lay down on the field? It can be seen almost every game because the zebras then have to call their own timeout for injury. The team doesn't have to use their own timeout. Then the player usually goes to their sideline for one play and then goes back into the game.

It wasn't a series injury, if one at all, but it gave valuable time to the coaches to take a breath and decide what to do.

I think this is what the rule change would be for. That player would have to stay out for the rest of that offensive team's drive. This would be for either team, on both sides of the ball.

If that "injured" player (and coaches) want him to continue playing he continues hopping off the field to recover and then can go back into the game.

This could be detrimental to the player if he is truly injured and the coaches think he is too valuable to be out of the game so they motion him off the field for a play and the puts him back in where his injury could become worse. That would be on the coaches.

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Or you have kids not getting the help they really need or team mates help carry them off so they don’t sit the whole series. Unintended consequences. Like the theory but not sure how it’s enforced and who does it. Like the HS concussion rule Nebraska had. 3 diagnosed concussion and you were done playing permanently. Guess what happened. No one went to get treatment anymore unless they were unconscious. Literally heard a parent say my kid will never go to the doctor for a concussion. Can’t take a chance it gets diagnosed and has to give up sports. Yes there is a lot wrong there, but with scholarship s and now NIL, things will happen.
Or in Byron Leftwich's case they carry him down the field so he can keep playing. I'm guessing they wouldn't get by with that today, but it was fun to watch it at the time it happened.

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How about allowing a certain number (2?) of "injury timeouts" after which the player sits for a specified inimical time.
 

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