a \u201cquarterback\u201d will be available later this week<\/a>.<\/p>\nLast week, the Ravens made Huntley available as the \u201cquarterback\u201d who spoke to the media. Jackson did not talk to reporters at all. (Technically, that was a violation of the NFL\u2019s media policy.)<\/p>\n
Eventually, the Cardinals will release an injury report for Thursday. Undoubtedly (and thanks to the very broad range that counts as being a limited participant), Murray will be listed as \u201climited.\u201d He\u2019ll then possibly be listed as \u201climited\u201d on Friday and Saturday before receiving a \u201cquestionable\u201d designation for the game. On Monday, the Cowboys (and the rest of the world) will find out whether Murray plays.<\/p>\n
As long as the Cardinals don\u2019t list Murray as a \u201cfull\u201d participant if he doesn\u2019t take every first-team rep in practice, they\u2019ll be in full compliance with the rules. The Ravens\u2019 strategy imploded because they made a mistake (honest or otherwise) when checking the \u201cfull\u201d box as to Jackson\u2019s Friday workload.<\/p>\n
The ability of the Cardinals to create this deliberate misdirection highlights the flaws of the current rules, while also underscoring the significance of the Ravens\u2019 mistake (honest or otherwise). Even by fully complying with the terms of the policy \u2014 and thereby achieving maximum ambiguity as to whether the Cowboys will face Murray or Jacoby Brissett \u2014 the approach results in a key piece of inside information as to which quarterback will play.<\/p>\n
Surely, the Cardinals have a pretty good idea as to which quarterback will play. They\u2019re doing what they can, apparently, to keep that a secret.<\/p>\n
Given what happened last week, they presumably won\u2019t cross the line. The point is that, even by staying on the right side of the rule, the Cardinals can strategically keep the Cowboys in the dark. And, within the Arizona building, multiple people will know the truth.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, a G.M. from a team other than the Ravens contacted PFT to explain that NFL teams view the messages sent by the injury report as a matter of competitive strategy, not gambling. If that\u2019s the prevailing view, the prevailing view is misguided.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Personnel (Injury) Report Policy has been a cornerstone of public confidence in the NFL for many decades,\u201d the first line of the policy states. \u201cThe credibility of the NFL, its teams, and team personnel requires full compliance with and uniform enforcement of the Policy.\u201d<\/p>\n
The next two paragraphs of the policy say this: \u201cThe legalization of sports betting has resulted in an increased awareness of the need to strike a careful balance between potential competitive interests and the preservation of public confidence in the integrity of the game, which requires the prompt disclosure of information that may influence on-field performance or the outcome of a game, including the availability of coaches and players. Complete transparency with respect to such information is of the utmost importance in ensuring the integrity of our game, preventing someone from gaining an advantage from perceived \u2018inside information,\u2019 and preventing the perception that \u2018insiders\u2019 are misusing the information.\u201d<\/p>\n
The policy isn\u2019t about competitive strategy. It\u2019s about balancing that objective against the potential misuse of inside information. The Cardinals\u2019 approach \u2014 even if fully compliant with the policy \u2014 shows that the balance created by the policy badly needs to be recalibrated.<\/p>\n
In light of last week\u2019s mistake (honest or otherwise) by the Ravens, the current ruse the Cardinals are attempting to perpetrate has a much different feel. Which makes it even more clear that the injury policy requires a complete overhaul, as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A week after the Ravens\u2019 clumsy effort to dupe the Bears into thinking that quarterback Lamar Jackson will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-262607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}