Mangini Madness

I was Surfing through some Lions articles earlier today and I stumbled across one by Tom Withers, writer for The Canadian Press, about Browns head coach Eric Mangini claiming that some Lions players were faking injuries in an attempt to slow down the Browns no huddle offense.
"I'm just saying there were a lot of them" Mangini said in a Monday press conference after noting that many Lions players left the field with injuries only to return later in the game. Browns wide receiver Chansi Stuckey was in supportof Mangini's theory. "Definitely," he said. "I knew that. That's what their coach does. If someone tries to do that to us, I would expect our guys to do the same thing. Unless it gets into that under two-minute situation where that causes a timeout, any other time its fine, I would do the same thing. When Lion's coach Jim Schwartz was posed with the accusation he had this to say "He's way out of bounds on that, tat couldn't be further from the truth. Both teams were running no huddle, and the officials did a very good job of standing over the ball, so there was no need to do that."

I found this article to be very interesting, it has never really occurred to me that faking an injury is such an effective strategy to slow down an offense that is in its two-minute set. While obviously unethical, if this story is true it surely switched the game in the Lions favor. I just thought I would get this story out there to see what some of you think about this faking an injury business.

If you would like to read the full story, you can find it at http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iVKfeVJz6-g5i0XeBKZ1jwIV3xqQ