vanarbor

January 30th, 2019 at 11:15 PM ^

For everyone that’s bitching about the Saints getting robbed, you should watch the Miller touchdown against the Saints that got called back by replay review on the play he broke his leg.

While it wasn’t a worse mistake because it was just a regular season game, it’s worse because it was a mistake made after going to review.

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ldevon1

January 31st, 2019 at 8:01 AM ^

An injured player gets paid for as long as he's unable to play, no matter what his contract says. A team can't release an injured player until he's cleared. For most rookie contracts, players selected in the third round or later, there's something called an "up-down," which is two minimum salaries negotiated in the collective bargaining agreement. The "up" is the minimum active salary, which this season is $420,000, and the "down" ($303,000) is the minimum inactive salary. If a player is injured after eight games, he's paid eight weeks "up" and nine weeks "down" (eight weeks, plus the bye). For most veterans, there is no "down." It's whatever he's scheduled to earn. If a player gets hurt doing a football-related activity, he's covered, no matter when it happens. So if he tears his anterior cruciate ligament in a May minicamp, he's covered. There are also injury settlements, which must be agreed to within five days of a player being placed on injured reserve. Say a player suffers a sprained ankle in training camp and it's a three-week injury. The team can pay him for those three weeks, then release him. That player is eligible to return to that team after the number of weeks the settlement was for (in this case, three), plus another six weeks. So he would be eligible to return in any capacity by Week 10. That six-week "tax" is put in place so teams can't stash players by saying they're injured. If a player suffers an injury doing something unrelated to football, he's placed on the reserve/non-football injury list. It's at the discretion of the team whether the player is paid.

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Hotel Putingrad

January 31st, 2019 at 9:46 AM ^

My understanding of Miller's situation is that he was in the final year of his deal when injured and thus would've been without contract rights in 2018. But the Bears paid him a league minimum salary so he would at least have something (not to mention the PT bills covered).

Apologies if this is covered in your link. Admittedly, I didn't read the entire embed.

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McLeft Shark

January 31st, 2019 at 12:35 PM ^

I'm amazed at the recent gruesomeness of knee injures the past 5 years or so.  From Grant Newsome, Teddy Bridgewater, jaylon smith, to Zach Miller.  I can't remember a period of time where so many guys had nerve/blood vessel damage to their knee from an injury, contact or non contact.  

 

Maybe it's just put out in the news more these days. 

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Unicycle Firefly

January 31st, 2019 at 5:09 PM ^

As far as the non-contact injuries, to a certain extent it's probably the result of players getting too big and strong. I imagine the human body is only designed to support a certain amount of extra muscle weight while still jumping and landing at various unpredictable angles.

I'm pretty sure a big reason that Bo Jackson's injury was so catastrophic was that his frame was so overburdened from all the extra weight and strain placed on it, that it basically broke when he landed on it at an odd, but seemingly harmless, angle.

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