re: Faking injuries should be reviewable

If the injury causes a stoppage in play, then they must sit out a minimum of 4 plays.

If it goes into the next game…it must be a minimum of ten total plays to sit out.

In this manner, the officials simply stop play for an injury, fake or not.

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what if theyre standing, walking, look at the sideline for 10 seconds and collapse holding their

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I have literally seen that happen - disgusting - all hell should come down on the coaches that allow this - and fired if they command it.

and the firing should negate any provisions of any contract they have

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There’s no way to have indisputable evidence that someone is truly not hurt. It’s literally impossible.

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Simple solution

Player can't enter game again until change of possession.

like cramps or something
---How do you prove he's faking cramps, "or something"?

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appear to be fake

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Yeah, let’s penalize someone for an injuries that “appears” to be fake.

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Yeah, let’s penalize someone for an injuries that “appears” to be fake.

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Yes, that is what this entire thread is advocating for. Obviously if it were a flag, it would only be implemented in obvious cases.

BUT this is also why most are simply advocating for the rule to be that if you stop the pace of play via injury that you can't return until the next drive.

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all hell should come down on the coaches that allow this - and fired if they command it.

and the firing should negate any provisions of any contract they have

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No one is going to fire a coach for trying to help their team within the rules. Right now there are no injury rules so a coach would be dumb not to have a player lay down if the offense is going super fast.

Honestly LSU was really dumb not to do this multiple times against OM and it definitely cost us.

Now as a spectator I hate it and want a rule that makes any player that goes out with injury to have to sit the remainder of the drive. But as the rules stand now, any coach not using this tactic to slow down hurry up offenses is doing his team a disservice.

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That's a tough because it's hard to know when a guy is hurt and when he's strategically flopping. But when a guy looks to the sideline and then sort of just sits down, that's a good place to start.

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In an NFL game last year, Damar Hamlin stood up and collapsed, having to be administered CPR and taken off the field. Football can be a violent game and we should realize that a person's wellbeing is of a higher level than the game. Possible case in point: Greg Brooks is playing and suffers a hit and has to kneel--sometimes health issues we never diagnosed can creep up on a person and then be triggered by some seemingly miniscule event. Sometimes we don't see the big picture because we don't have God-sized eyes. I personally would rather see care and prayer rule as long as there is honesty, something we seemingly have lost in these latter days.

Didn’t the Buffalo Bill guy stand up and take a step before collapsing?

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If they are "hurt" make them sit out 5 min of game time.
That will stop that crap.

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this is the right answer. Make the "injured" player sit for a period of time or for a specific number of plays.

Also, don't let the teams use the injury timeout as their own timeout. If a team is out of timeouts, it's give them a free one, which shouldn't be allowed. Make the players stay between the hashes and don't allow a coach to communicate with them until the injured player is off the field and the game resumes.

Also, if the team of the injured player benefits from a clock stoppage for the injury, there should either be a runoff of time, or the team would have to burn a timeout.