Mark Morse

This is nothing new ... most teams have been doing this, but on third down, Bal wants to get Ray Lewis off the field ... the only way to do this is to fake an injury to stop the Patriots No Huddle offense.

Hopefully the league will take notice of this and make some type of rule to prevent teams from doing this.

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NEP4Life

Didn't Goodell send a memo out about faking injuries earlier in the season?

Unfortunately, I doubt fines are sufficient discouragement, and the probability that the officials can/will flag it is close to 0.

Thus, I expect lots and lots of mysteriously timely Ravens injuries.

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patsfan06

The thing we should do as fans when they do this is give them a standing ovation from the time they go down and an even louder one when they return.

Booing is bad. Because in the one instance where the guy is actually hurt it is terrible. I think a sarcastic standing ovation would do sufficiently to point out the embarrassing act.

Yehoodi

I hope they dont, I started to get worried that the Broncos were starting to do that in our last game . . .

TheBeers

No doubt we will see this at some point. But I'm pretty sure the league wont do anything about it until we fake an injury to stop some other teams no huddle. Actually I could be wrong but I do believe there is a rule? I'm sure the league would look at it and "re-emphasize" if we did it still.

Mogamedogz

Let's no act like our guys are above this. How soon we forget around here.

TheBeers

True I was going to put that in my post. We all remember Willie's "injury" only to come back two plays later and make the stop on the goal line stand against the Colts.

jmt57

Referees are not medical doctors so the league shouldn't put them in a position of making a judgement call as to whether or not a player is faking an injury.

It seems to me that the best course of action would be to require a player in that situation to have to sit out more than the current rule of only one play. The question is how much longer? Three plays? Five plays? That then becomes problematic with refs having to try to remember what player can't return and for how many plays, along with everything else they are doing. Perhaps you could have the replay booth official upstairs keep track of that and radio down if a player returns to early, but I doubt the league would go for that.

That leaves having a player be forced to sit for the remainder of that series as probably the best option. I used to feel that was a bit severe, but I'm coming around to thinking this is most likely the best alternative. It's really a combination of integrity (phony injuries) as well as player safety (not allowing them to return too quickly).

neuronet

Broncos did it a lot last week. Ravens will do it more. Refs will never do anything, league will do nothing but send memos.

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The difference is that Brady calmly calls audibles while Manning flaps like a chicken, barks 11 code words, and makes sure every camera in the stadium has documented his once-in-a-generation (and patented, I believe) ability to see a defensive formation and change the play. Both have the same effect, but Manning transcends measurable human intellect while Brady merely chooses a different play.

CityOfChampions

Instead of missing the next down they could make it so the player has to miss the whole rest of the time the opposing teams offense is on the field for that drive or something. I don't mind if it's once in a while, but teams have been doing it every down versus us and it's obnoxious.