IR -- Playoff question.

That's a stupid rule, one that needs to be addressed by the competition committee. With injuries in this league enough to knock a good team compeletly out of contention, you'd think they'd loosen the roster restrictions.

For as much as the NFL protects quarterbacks with these ridiculous roughing the QB rules, why not allow team to prepare for the inevitability of injuries by making more people available once they're healthy?

We get to play them both at home, too.

Good point. If we can get on a roll with Atlanta this weekend, the only team I really see stopping us is New Orleans.

That's a stupid rule, one that needs to be addressed by the competition committee. With injuries in this league enough to knock a good team compeletly out of contention, you'd think they'd loosen the roster restrictions.

But this would allow some teams to do some shady stuff before the playoffs.

For example, last year the Colts locked up first place in the AFC by about week 13. So, if the rule was that you could take players off of IR for the playoffs, they could have decided to put Manning, Harrison, Edge, etc. on IR for the last 3 games of the regular season so that they could have checked out new players/back ups in real game situations.

Good point. If we can get on a roll with Atlanta this weekend, the only team I really see stopping us is New Orleans.
The game in St Louis has the potential to be tough. I know they were just stuck in a huge slide, but they were playing pretty good before that, so I'd think they can still be dangerous.

Yeah, St. Louis will be dangerous, but I'll take them in St. Louis more than any other team on the road. Their home following is pitiful.

If our D continues to play like they did yesterday and our O picks it up a little.... and the Giants and Eagilrs help us out............ The God's have spoken becuase we'll make it to the playoffs!!!! :)

Sweet justice would be for us to play the Cowboys in the playoffs and knock them out IN Dallas.

Oh, wouldn't it be sweet!!!!!?!??!? And PIZZA will be ON ME!!!! :)

But this would allow some teams to do some shady stuff before the playoffs.

For example, last year the Colts locked up first place in the AFC by about week 13. So, if the rule was that you could take players off of IR for the playoffs, they could have decided to put Manning, Harrison, Edge, etc. on IR for the last 3 games of the regular season so that they could have checked out new players/back ups in real game situations.

I don't see how that's "shady". And you wouldn't have to put them on IR, you could just sit them. The disincentive to that would be obvious, especially for Indy, since they went into cruise control once home field advantage was locked up. They came out flat, and got knocked right out of the playoffs.

i remember reading about pulling guys back from IR for the postseason a year ago, so i wonder if there was a rule change or if there's a way to do that (like a PUP type list or something)...