Readers: The NFL needs to stop players from faking injuries — and here’s how

On Monday, we shared the top twenty tweets spawned by ex-Denver coach Mike Shanahan's Washington Redskins allegedly faking injuries in an attempt to slow down the Broncos. Some readers felt nothing could do to prevent such a scheme -- but one floated a possible solution...
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On Monday, we shared the top twenty tweets spawned by ex-Denver coach Mike Shanahan’s Washington Redskins allegedly faking injuries in an attempt to slow down the Broncos.

Some readers felt nothing could do to prevent such a scheme — but one floated a possible solution.

Ric Cabot Podmore writes:

The solution to this is simple…if a player causes stoppage of the game due to an injury, real or not, they cannot re-enter the game during the current possession.

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