IR -- Playoff question.

[hesscl34]

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!!!!

[TheMalcolmConnection]

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

[hesscl34]

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

[Beemnseven]

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.

[That Guy]

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)...

[CHIEF CHUCKING MY SPEAR]

we wont have to worry about that unfortually. Since we blew the vikings,titan and bucs game.