IR -- Playoff question.

[ArtMonkDrillz]

Originally Posted by Beemnseven

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.