New rules for pregame warmups...

[No_Fly_Zone]

The beginning of the season would be brutal with guys cramping and missing the whole quarter. I get your point but a whole quarter is a bit excessive. As one poster said, the rest of the series would for the most part put a stop to it. Obviously in goal line situations teams would probably still do it though.

This is the problem. If you ever played football in South Florida, you know cramps are real. Agreed that limiting it to that series/drive is a very good compromise.

 

[DTP]

Let’s think about it. What injuries could occur that would cause you to literally collapse to the floor in pain? Obviously serious stuff like ligament damage or broken bones. Sprains. Probably the least serious would be cramps. If you’re cramping the amount of time it would take to get you stretched out and rehydrated would be at minimum 10 minutes of real time, most likely longer. So there’s no physical way a player could be hurt bad enough to collapse to the ground yet somehow make it back to the field on the same possession. Unless it’s a situation where the quarter ends while the same possession is ongoing. If the game stops for an injured player, that player can’t come back into the game until the next opponent possession. Seems pretty simple.

 

[Unsider]

I’d like it so that after two fake injuries, the team that fakes it (D or O), gets moved to its own 10-yd line by default. That would fix everything.