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(Message started by: Callie on Sep 22^nd, 2003, 7:55pm)

Title: What do you think of Shanahan
Post by Callie on Sep 22^nd, 2003, 7:55pm

Check out this link

http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/story/6658534

Title: Re: What do you think of Shanahan
Post by Walker Boh on Sep 22^nd, 2003, 11:24pm

I have no problem with Shanahan's decision to lie about Plummer's injury. He only had 2 QB's on the roster and he said what he had to say in case Beuerlein went down and Plumer was forced to come back and play. In other words, he was protecting his player. Isn't that part of his job? As far as the jersey goes, who really cares? That's just media mumbo-jumbo... [smiley=singin.gif] bla bla bla bla.

Mike Shanahan... the new NFL Bad Boy. [smiley=possessed.gif]

Title: Re: What do you think of Shanahan
Post by Noey21 on Sep 23^rd, 2003, 9:26am

I beleive the media makes a big deal about very little things.

As proved by no fine what he said about the injury didn't break any rules. He could have easily said what every other team says ............we are investigating further and doing x-rays.

The jersey thing is a total non issue. Does it really matter?

Title: Re: What do you think of Shanahan
Post by Philly on Sep 23^rd, 2003, 9:50am

I will take a slightly different stance here.

I don't care that Shanny lied about Plummer's injury, but he should have just said that he didn't know what the injury was at that point. There's no reason to label it a concussion or anything else at that point.

Also, the NFL has rules that the home team gets to decide on their jersey. Why should the Chargers have to scramble at the last minute to find a different jersey and play at a disadvantage in their own stadium?

So, all in all, I agree with the NFL's response to both situations. The lying did not deserve punishment - just a clarification of the rules. The jersey incident did deserve punishment.

Title: Re: What do you think of Shanahan
Post by Callie on Sep 23^rd, 2003, 6:34pm

I agree with Philly.

Title: Re: What do you think of Shanahan
Post by Callie on Sep 27^th, 2003, 9:01pm

As a small P.S.

Seems like the league response to all of the truth-in-injury stuff was to have a lot more "game time decisions" than usual!