Bengals lying on their official injury report? (Joe Burrow)

[Donuts and Doritos]

NFL should be investigating why Soo many players are getting injured this year. How many QBs have gone down, how many key players. I get injuries are part of the sport, but feels like (I know not very scientific) there's more & w/ scoring down it feels like the product overall isn't as good. Of course I'm probably skewed on this view by the Bills issues.

[RobbRiddick]

I need to go read the Bengals forum so I can feel better about my life and being a Bills fan

Edited November 17, 2023 by RobbRiddick

[Low Positive]

Just got a notice that the NFL is investigating this. What's funny is that the Bengals' PR team is who posted the video of him getting off the bus with the wrist brace. If anything comes of this, they only have themselves to blame.

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

  On 11/17/2023 at 2:37 PM, Donuts and Doritos said:

NFL should be investigating why Soo many players are getting injured this year. How many QBs have gone down, how many key players. I get injuries are part of the sport, but feels like (I know not very scientific) there's more & w/ scoring down it feels like the product overall isn't as good. Of course I'm probably skewed on this view by the Bills issues.

Expand  

I wonder if those two things are related…seems like they’re letting offenses get away with a lot more holding this year to try to get the scoring up and the trenches are a lot uglier than they have to be.  Just spitballing here though haha 

[Low Positive]

  On 11/17/2023 at 2:32 PM, SoCal Deek said:

I’ve often wondered why teams have to be so specific about injuries. Seems to me it just signals an unnecessary advantage to their opponents. For decades NHL teams have just listed things as upper body, etc. 

Expand  

The current injury reporting policy was implemented in 2017. You can read it here: https://operations.nfl.com/media/2683/2017-nfl-injury-report-policy.pdf

 

I don't remember how it was before that because I wasn't following this stuff as closely because the Bills were mediocre to bad most years. I didn't really care if EJ was limited at practice or if Tyrod had a hurt wrist that could prevent him from not throwing the ball down the field. 

[Saxum]

  On 11/17/2023 at 1:28 PM, Dablitzkrieg said:

Settle down, I'm sure he is exaggerating to make a point

Expand  

 

Exaggerating to make a point just means you wear a dunce cap to cover your pointed head.

[Mikie2times]

  On 11/17/2023 at 2:32 PM, SoCal Deek said:

I’ve often wondered why teams have to be so specific about injuries. Seems to me it just signals an unnecessary advantage to their opponents. For decades NHL teams have just listed things as upper body, etc. 

Expand  

Gambling is the reason. Not joking. 

[BuffaloBillies]

  On 11/17/2023 at 2:07 PM, stuvian said:

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/injuries/

 

he was listed here

Expand  

 

AFTER the game (note "Questionable for week 12)

[wppete]

Cincinnati is a sketchy organization. 

[zow2]

Well, if they were lying, that's a bit of bad karma huh?  I mean now his wrist looks really injured.  Poor Joe Cool.

[SoCal Deek]

  On 11/17/2023 at 2:58 PM, Mikie2times said:

Gambling is the reason. Not joking. 

Expand  

Interesting and probably true

[RyanC883]

  On 11/17/2023 at 2:37 PM, Donuts and Doritos said:

NFL should be investigating why Soo many players are getting injured this year. How many QBs have gone down, how many key players. I get injuries are part of the sport, but feels like (I know not very scientific) there's more & w/ scoring down it feels like the product overall isn't as good. Of course I'm probably skewed on this view by the Bills issues.

Expand  

 

they also seem to be mostly muscle, ligament type injuries.  Are they really focusing on warming up?  Do they go full speed or do HIIT type training in the week? 

[H2o]

Florio had reported earlier in the week the Bengals website posted a photo that showed Burrow in a brace of some kind. Then they almost immediately took it down. Obviously they didn't take it down fast enough for people not to have already been talking about it. At the time, there had been no report of any kind of injury to Burrow's hand or wrist. That is where the problem in all of this lies, due to the effect it has on other things. Betting lines, bettors, preparation, things that could have serious repercussions if it is found that Cincy purposely did not disclose the injury. 

[Dablitzkrieg]

  On 11/17/2023 at 2:55 PM, Limeaid said:

 

Exaggerating to make a point just means you wear a dunce cap to cover your pointed head.

Expand  

I've never heard that dumb saying before 🤣

[Mr. WEO]

this is such a non-issue

[Chicken Boo]

  On 11/17/2023 at 1:40 PM, MJS said:

Fan conspiracy theories.

Expand  

 

Perhaps, but is a league that knowingly covered up and talked down the impact of concussions on players' health for decades really to be trusted?  

[The Jokeman]

  On 11/17/2023 at 4:40 PM, Mr. WEO said:

this is such a non-issue

Expand  

It's not because the gamblers across the nation lost millions of dollars.

[The Wiz]

  On 11/17/2023 at 2:47 PM, Low Positive said:

The current injury reporting policy was implemented in 2017. You can read it here: https://operations.nfl.com/media/2683/2017-nfl-injury-report-policy.pdf

 

I don't remember how it was before that because I wasn't following this stuff as closely because the Bills were mediocre to bad most years. I didn't really care if EJ was limited at practice or if Tyrod had a hurt wrist that could prevent him from not throwing the ball down the field. 

Expand  

And conveniently enough, NFL gambling was established shortly after.  As if that wasn't the reason for the implementation in 2017.

[Goin Breakdown]

I wouldn't have started him on my fantasy team had I known this was a thing. 

[Low Positive]

  On 11/17/2023 at 4:49 PM, Goin Breakdown said:

I wouldn't have started him on my fantasy team had I known this was a thing. 

Expand  

Exactly. People lost money because the Bengals hid this. That's why the injury report exists.