PFT: Brady describes his offseason knee surgery as "pretty serious"

[sb1]

Tom Brady describes his offseason knee surgery as "pretty serious" - ProFootballTalk (nbcsports.com)

at Florio's last two paragraphs.

If you think you blinked your eyes and missed Brady’s name on the injury report with a knee problem in 2020, you didn’t. The Buccaneers never disclosed Brady as having any type of injury. Not once. Other than getting a handful of “not injury related” Wednesdays off, his name never appeared on the practice report.

The league rarely takes action against teams that fail to disclose injuries. Often, the player says enough about it (e.g., Brett Favre in 2009, talking about his 2008 partially torn biceps tendon) to force the league to take action. Whether Brady’s comments are enough to get his knee surgery on the league’s radar screen remains to be seen.

Why am I not surprised he would try to stir the pot. If the player doesn't say anything the league can't do squat. And there's no evidence that Brady told them about the injury. Give it a rest dude.

 

[VectorPrime]

Pats rode that same exact line regarding injury reporting as have tons of other teams
most notably the Seahawks.

Here’s the dirty secret that by now most people realize, the injury report is meant for gamblers. And the gamblers get mad if teams fool around with it because they can’t accurately gauge how to set and judge betting lines.

 

[PatsWSB47]

Pats rode that same exact line regarding injury reporting as have tons of other teams
most notably the Seahawks.

Here’s the dirty secret that by now most people realize, the injury report is meant for gamblers. And the gamblers get mad if teams fool around with it because they can’t accurately gauge how to set and judge betting lines.

That and a team doesn't want opponents to know how to game plan with knowledge of an injury of players

 

[Pats1971]

Brady never missed a practice. If you play full practices, you do not have to be added to an injury report.

 

[Patsfanin Philly]

Brady never missed a practice. If you play full practices, you do not have to be added to an injury report.

https://operations.nfl.com/media/2683/2017-nfl-injury-report-policy.pdf

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The NFL's policy on teams reporting injuries, in part, reads: “If any player has a significant or noteworthy injury, it must be listed on the practice report, even if he fully participates in practice and the team expects that he will play in the team's next game.Jan 9, 2020"

 

[PatsWickedPissah]

https://operations.nfl.com/media/2683/2017-nfl-injury-report-policy.pdf

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The NFL's policy on teams reporting injuries, in part, reads: “If any player has a significant or noteworthy injury, it must be listed on the practice report, even if he fully participates in practice and the team expects that he will play in the team's next game.Jan 9, 2020"

Over under on what 2022 draft pick the Patriots will lose for this?
What the hey, it's for the good of the 32.

 

[Pats1971]

https://operations.nfl.com/media/2683/2017-nfl-injury-report-policy.pdf

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The NFL's policy on teams reporting injuries, in part, reads: “If any player has a significant or noteworthy injury, it must be listed on the practice report, even if he fully participates in practice and the team expects that he will play in the team's next game.Jan 9, 2020"

If it were significant he would not have been able to play. So I guess it depends on what your definition of significant. I mean can we stop pretending this does not happen with every team every year where a guy has offseason surgery yet does not miss a game? I am sure it was not a bone sticking out.