IR -- Playoff question.

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Originally Posted by ArtMonkDrillz

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.