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funny ..everyone does it but its only BB who gets called out all the time
funny ..everyone does it but its only BB who gets called out all the time
GRUDEN ADMITS TO INJURY REPORT SHENANIGANS
Bucs coach Jon Gruden is the latest NFL coach to acknowledge that he has been less-than-truthful in his handling of the official injury report.
Quarterback Jeff Garcia suffered a back injury last month. He has since been listed as questionable, which suggests a 50-50 chance that he would play. But after the Bucs' loss to Houston on Sunday, Gruden said that he never intended to let Garcia play in either of the two games he has missed since suffering the injury.
As a result, then, Garcia should have been listed as "out" for both games.
But to do so would have allowed Tampa's opponents to spend no time preparing to play against Garcia, and to devote more time to defending against Luke McCown.
The broader issue, from the perspective of the NFL, is that anyone who knew about Gruden's plan would have been in a position to confidently wager money on the Texans to beat the Bucs on Sunday, as the Texans did.
It remains to be seen whether the league does anything about this. Sooner or later, however, the league needs to take meaningful action in order to ensure that these abuses don't continue to happen.
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