NFL reportedly investigating Steelers' handling of Le'Veon Bell's groin injury

[salamander]

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-reportedly-investigating-steelers-handling-of-leveon-bells-groin-injury/

[SteelerFanInStl]

More B.S. from the NFL. Bell was obviously playing just fine with his "injury" so why is it an issue? Do we have to start listing hangnails and stubbed toes on the injury report? I'm sure that the lack of him being on the injury report really affected the game planning of the Dolphins, Chiefs and Pats.

[86WARD]

They are banging the Bitch Pigeons for the same violation and said they could lose a 2nd round pick?

[salamander]

They are banging the Bitch Pigeons for the same violation and said they could lose a 2nd round pick?

Yes. That's what I'm worried about.

[Born2Steel]

It's only an investigation. See what they find. If the coaches did indeed put Bell out there with a pulled groin and hid this FACT, it should be penalized. THAT'S THE RULES. That is what the players themselves have fought for in the CBA. This is not a witch hunt aimed at the Steelers this time. Let it play out. If we do get nailed on this, the blame goes to our staff, not the league this time. I keep saying 'this time' because i do know and understand the aggravation from past 'investigations'. This one would be on us however.

[AtlantaDan]

They are banging the Bitch Pigeons for the same violation and said they could lose a 2nd round pick?

Reported today Seattle got off with a warning

The Seattle Seahawks (http://www.espn.com/nfl/team/_/name/sea/seattle-seahawks) have received a warning for not listing Richard Sherman (http://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/14086/richard-sherman)'s knee injury on the injury report in the second half of last season, league sources told ESPN.

The violation was determined to be the result of a misinterpretation of the policy's reporting requirements, a source told ESPN's Adam Caplan.

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/18684918/nfl-warns-seattle-seahawks-injury-report

Steelers will probably get a similar warning - if Sherman was not listed as injured after Pete Carroll said he had a significant knee injury the second half of the season hard to see the Steelers taking a bigger hit

[86WARD]

Seahawks get a warning and the Steelers will get docked a 6th round pick. Why would you think there would be consistency? No offense, but you'd be naive to think the NFL would be consistent...

[AtlantaDan]

Seahawks get a warning and the Steelers will get docked a 6th round pick. Why would you think there would be consistency? No offense, but you'd be naive to think the NFL would be consistent...

No question inconsistency rules with Goodell but hard to see it applying here with any misrepresentation on Bell being for a lesser period of time than Sherman

Only possible way something could be stretched into more than a warning is if somehow not disclosing the Coates groin injury constitutes a pattern and practice of non-disclosures for multiple players

[86WARD]

I was being more sarcastic than anything but if it happened that way I described, it wouldn't surprise me one bitZ

[SteelerFanInStl]

You've gotta love this bit of garbage from Florio:


Perhaps the Seahawks would have faced a consequence, if the Steelers hadn’t stumbled into the same injury-report rabbit hole when running back Le’Veon Bell (http://www.rotoworld.com/player/nfl/8390/leveon-bell) disclosed after the AFC title game that he’d been playing with an undisclosed groin injury. If the league office had whacked the Seahawks, the league office would have been required to whack the Steelers. So if the league office didn’t want to whack the Steelers, the league office had to look the other way on the Seahawks.

It sounds cynical, I know. But justice is often meted out at 345 Park Avenue by picking the preferred conclusion and working backward. In this case, it’s entirely possible that the preferred conclusion for the Seahawks was to issue only a warning because the preferred conclusion for the Steelers will be the same thing.

:jerkit:

[AtlantaDan]

You've gotta love this big of garbage from Florio:



:jerkit:

Because we all know the Steelers got special treatment starting in 2010 when their QB was suspended for off the field conduct for which no charges were brought and their outside linebacker was fined $75,000 for legal hits after Tony Dungy and Rodney Harrison got upset about it on a Sunday Night football pregame show

WTF?:confused:

[teegre]

Mike Florio has been diagnosed with Peter King's disease.

It's the condition wherein all that one says and/or all that one writes is controlled by Roger Goodell's fist (which has been shoved up one's ass). Ballwashing is an early symptom of this disease.

[tube517]

Mike Florio has been diagnosed with Peter King's disease.

It's the condition wherein all that one says and/or all that one writes is controlled by Roger Goodell's fist (which has been shoved up one's ass). Ballwashing is an early symptom of this disease.

QFT

[fansince'76]

You've gotta love this bit of garbage from Florio:


Perhaps the Seahawks would have faced a consequence, if the Steelers hadn’t stumbled into the same injury-report rabbit hole when running back Le’Veon Bell (http://www.rotoworld.com/player/nfl/8390/leveon-bell) disclosed after the AFC title game that he’d been playing with an undisclosed groin injury. If the league office had whacked the Seahawks, the league office would have been required to whack the Steelers. So if the league office didn’t want to whack the Steelers, the league office had to look the other way on the Seahawks.

It sounds cynical, I know. But justice is often meted out at 345 Park Avenue by picking the preferred conclusion and working backward. In this case, it’s entirely possible that the preferred conclusion for the Seahawks was to issue only a warning because the preferred conclusion for the Steelers will be the same thing.


:jerkit:

DA STEALERS PAYED DA LEEG!! :chuckle:

[st33lersguy]

You've gotta love this bit of garbage from Florio:



:jerkit:

You mean like that one time Ben got suspended 4 games for nothing but accusations, but around that same time Vince Young and Cedric Benson were caught red-headed committing crimes and got nothing. Or how about the time last year some Giants player twisted Le'Veon like a pretzel and got nothing for it, because they were too busy fining Ramon Foster for protecting Bell by pushing the guy off. Or how about the time AB kept getting flagged for dancing in the end zone but Manny sanders didn't get flagged for doing the exact same thing. Yeah idiot

[st33lersguy]

You know the moment I knew the Steelers were not going to trade AB, when I saw that Florio wrote a dumbass article claiming the Steelers were whipping up negative talk about him to bait someone into trading him. What have those "negative talks" lead to?

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/01/24/steelers-may-be-sending-the-rest-of-the-league-a-message-about-antonio-brown/

[st33lersguy]

Figured Bitch Pigeons fans would be belching out the same conspiracy theory as Florio and I was right.


Stealers are in the same boat. No way the league was going to heavily penalize them. Couldn't penalize Seattle without nailing Pitt too. Thank you Stealers!


That and Pissburgh doing pretty much the same thing with one of their players helped. You can't punish Seattle and then let the stealers off the hook scott free.

They didn't want take a draft pick away from the Rooney's.

http://seahawks.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=135935

Should be no surprise that Florio and Bitch Pigeons fans are spouting the same asinine conspiracy theory

[fansince'76]

Figured Bitch Pigeons fans would be belching out the same conspiracy theory as Florio and I was right.



Stealers are in the same boat. No way the league was going to heavily penalize them. Couldn't penalize Seattle without nailing Pitt too. Thank you Stealers!


That and Pissburgh doing pretty much the same thing with one of their players helped. You can't punish Seattle and then let the stealers off the hook scott free.

They didn't want take a draft pick away from the Rooney's.

http://seahawks.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=135935

Should be no surprise that Florio and Bitch Pigeons fans are spouting the same asinine conspiracy theory

Hell, for a moment there I thought that Florio might have joined the Rainy City Bitch Pigeons "12th Man" club. :jerkit:


That, and in the case of the Stealers, their player was actually hurt and limited in games.

Yeah? 63 touches and 340 yards from scrimmage over 2 playoff games kinda indicates otherwise. :coffee:

[SteelerFanInStl]

Yeah? 63 touches and 340 yards from scrimmage over 2 playoff games kinda indicates otherwise. :coffee:

Typical ignorant comment from their fanbase.

[fansince'76]

Typical ignorant comment from their fanbase.

It's laughable how much "power" they apparently think the Rooneys have when their team's owner could buy and sell the Rooneys about 100x over, and in Goodell's world in particular, money talks and bullshit walks. That and the fact that Goodell has shown at best thinly-disguised disdain for "old guard" owners like the Rooney because they don't fit his "corporate vision" for the NFL. :rolleyes:

Gee, I sure do hope that good ol' Rog does some more "favors" for the Rooneys like this! :jerkit:

NFL owners approve restructured plan for Steelers ownership (http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d80d680cd/printable/nfl-owners-approve-restructured-plan-for-steelers-ownership)