It's pretty lame if the New York Giants did fake injuries to slow down the St Louis Rams no-huddle last week. It certainly looked suspicious for two players to just drop as if on cue. Unless the players admit to this travesty, it's all just speculation. Players and coaches throughout the league have had some fun with this injury question. The insane attention given to this is even worse than the possible crimes. Must be a slow news week in the football world. The NFL plans to punish any injury fakers with fines, suspensions and even the loss of draft picks. That seems a bit severe. I've never before noticed a run on suspicious injuries. It may or may not have happened last week and now there's an epidemic. NFL players have far too much pride to be labeled a faker. The NFL needs to be spending more time on getting the calls right on the field than stressing over something that is little more than a passing hiccup.
I'm much more concerned with the real injuries. There's been a bunch of them. There seems to be more muscle strains and pulls than usual. Of course these are the less serious variety. The more nagging variety. Missed playing time is still missed playing time no matter the cause. There seems to be more knee injuries and other serious injuries as well. The Kansas City Chiefs are off to a horrible start. That isn't helped by the season long loss of stars Eric Berry and Jamaal Charles in successive weeks. The lockout fouled up so many things. Maybe it fouled up the joints and muscles of the players as well. That sounds like a bit of a stretch, but maybe today's players are just conditioned for the games throughout an active offseason. Take away that offseason and you take away part of their preparation. Maybe there's no real cause. Injuries just happen in football. Perhaps there's simply a run now on injuries and it will all even out as the season goes on. I hope so. It might just be me, but I always find real injuries a greater concern than fake injuries.
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