Simple - you play to win the game within the rules. A life lesson everyone should learn as soon as possible. This is not a beauty contest. It is a very physical game where players are asked to go full out and hit other players as hard as they can. The plays ae legal. There is not cheating involved!
OK, please read carefully… I am not stating equivalence. Please read that again. I know you can read.
I would say HUO is strategic and not unethical. If the powers that be want to take the advantage of controlling tempo away from the offense, they can modify the play clock rules to do that. Whether that happens or not depends on what the people in charge want. The game evolves.
Ha! They’re both strategic, for that matter. IMO, it’s unethical. To fix the flopping, fix the ready to play issue… also IMPO.
Faking injuries is gaming the system not taking advantage of a gray area in the rules. If the refs could unequivocally know that an injury is faked, they could flag the defensive player for unsportsmanlike conduct or just allow the offense to run the play. They can’t, so they error on the side of player safety.
Thank you. I am an 89 alum as well. And I agree completely with your take on this. I don’t take those words that you wrote at the beginning of your post, lightly. Wrong is wrong and right is right. Winning by doing things right makes wins more sweet. Winning by pulling bush league BS tarnishes the win.
Players are flopping because extreme tempo gives unfair advantage to the O. It’s a tactic, unethical or not, to even that inequity. So fix the inequity.
I disagree. As long as the ref puts the ball in play, why is it unethical to start the play right away.?
I would say that it is against the rules. There’s just no way for the refs to discriminate between a fake injury or a legitimate injury. So, they allow the gamesmanship. Never the way I played the game.
No. Read my last post.
Once again, because it is obvious by the substitution rules that the game wants the O and D both to have equitable time to prepare for the next play.
If that is what the game wants, whatever that means, then why do the refs put the ball in play? They could just stand over the ball with their hand on it until the D calls the play. What is to prevent the D from dragging their feet and not getting ready for the next play just to kill clock?
I think I finally see your point. In your view, violation of tax law and faking an injury are both cheating although the latter does not currently involve a penalty. The difference is the penalty.
They do that at times. You get past the D dragging tail by giving a D a certain amount of time to do to. It’s simple really.
I have seen a team on defense deliberately take their time substituting while the ref has his hand on the ball to stop play, but the play clock is running. The team on offense has so little play clock left that they have to burn a timeout. Within the rules, apparently.
