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Those who watched MNF saw the blatant flopping by two Giant defenders during a no huddle series by St Louis. As the Rams O marched down the field against a disorganized, gassed D, two Giants went to the ground after looking over to the sidelines. One "injured" player popped right back up after realizing his teammate beat him to the turf.
Yes, Willie McGinnest secured a SB birth doing the same thing.....bogus then, bogus now. San Diego flopped on Sunday vs the Patriots. The NFL is starting to resemble soccer.

Solution if I were King: Considering how blatant the Giants fakery was…$500,000 fine. This fine will quickly end any future crap. Repeat offenders will lose draft picks as well. Illegal taping was dealt with severely….I don’t see why onfield cheating would be considered a lesser offense.
In the future, if an injury (fake or real) occurs during a no huddle situation, the team will only be allowed to substitute for the injured player and that player must remain on the sidelines for the duration of the series.

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TX_Patriot

This has been discussed a bit over the last few years, and a lot of fans feel that the Pats new aggressive hurry-up style is going to be affected by this "phenomenon" all year. PFT has also posted an article on the egregious flops in Giants/Rams game last night.

Ref was powerless on Giants’ fake injuries, but NFL is not | ProFootballTalk

My question is, is there a way to curb flopping on D?

Personally, I think that the "injured" player should be forced to sit out the remainder of the possession rather than just a single play. This would give the team's medical staff the proper amount of time to "Evaluate" the player's condition. Also, if the league feels that the player did, in fact, fake the injury, then team should be fined (not the player) and heavily. Put the pressure on the owners and coaches to take this crap out of football.

TX_Patriot

Ugh, merge please. Didn't see the other post when I wrote this.

sportsreport360

Well, it is tough because so many of the teams wants to switch defensive personnel and a no huddle offense does not allow this to happen. I think defensive teams will continue to flop, it is just a part of the game.

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The-Hooded-One

McGinnest did it in a regular season game so I'm not sure how that secured a Super Bowl birth.

DarrylS

IMO if you are injured you have to stay out for something like three plays instead of one.. but not sure that would solve anything as a reserve player could flop as well as a starter..

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patsfaninpittsburgh

What ever happened to delay of game?

TX_Patriot

The problem with assessing a penalty is then the onus is on the Refs to determine if a guy is really hurt or not. I'm sure the league doesn't want that to fall into the Refs hands.

Armchair Quarterback

The rest of the possession is the answer. They need to fix this, the game has enough stupid distractions without turning it into soccer.

Against Miami, Marshall was limping off the field and you can see Sunglasses at Night Fist Pump and another coach motioning him to get down and he went down like he was shot. That wasn't as bad as what the Giants did with two flopping at the same time.

ctpatsfan77

Simple: if the player comes back in during that possession, assess an automatic DOG penalty.

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