{"id":253385,"date":"2025-10-31T14:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T14:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/253385\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T14:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T14:39:09","slug":"nfl-review-of-ravens-injury-report-mistake-is-ongoing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/253385\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL review of Ravens’ injury report “mistake” is ongoing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Football season brings an endless stream of bright, shiny objects, with the next game (and the next game and the next game) naturally taking the steam out of any and all controversies.<\/p>\n

One very important controversy continues to linger for the Ravens, who committed a rare \u2014 and blatant \u2014 violation of the injury report policy by listing quarterback Lamar Jackson as a \u201cfull\u201d participant in last Friday\u2019s practice when the rule clearly required him to be listed as \u201climited.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last night, Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reported that the NFL\u2019s review of the situation is \u201congoing<\/a>,\u201d confirming that the available punishment includes \u201cheavy fines\u201d and the potential loss of draft picks.<\/p>\n

The violation was obvious; it would be highly unlikely for the Ravens to avoid any sanction for sending the unmistakable message that Jackson was preparing to play on Sunday against the Bears, when the truth was that Tyler Huntley was getting the start.<\/p>\n

The biggest question is whether the league will view the violation as \u201cwillful.\u201d The policy states that, if the Ravens made a \u201ccalculated decision to risk the possible penalties\u201d for violating the policy by regarding them as \u201can acceptable cost of attempting to gain an unfair competitive advantage,\u201d the discipline will be enhanced.<\/p>\n

Despite coach John Harbaugh\u2019s insistence that it was an \u201chonest mistake<\/a>\u201d (he also said he doesn\u2019t \u201cknow those particular rules,\u201d which makes it hard to know whether it was an \u201chonest mistake\u201d), those who understand how the NFL works realized immediately what the Ravens were trying to do. They wanted the Bears to think Jackson would be starting the game, even though the Ravens knew it would be Huntley. <\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t a mistake. It wasn\u2019t an accident. And if the league investigates the situation with only a fraction of the zeal that was unleashed on the Patriots regarding the inflation of footballs after a 2014 playoff game, the NFL will likely find a smoking-gun text message or two that proves, conclusively, that the Ravens were sufficiently desperate for a win to throw caution to the wind as to the cost of doing business that would come from an eventual parking-ticket fine for taking liberties with the rules.<\/p>\n

Then again, what other proof is needed? The circumstances speak for themselves. And the timing couldn\u2019t have been worse.<\/p>\n

So what will the NFL do? Will they make an example out of the Ravens? Will they make an excuse for the Ravens? Even as more and more games roll down the assembly line, with more and more stories and controversies and things to distract us happening, it\u2019s important to monitor how the league handles this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Football season brings an endless stream of bright, shiny objects, with the next game (and the next game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-253385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}