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Facing Fines For Not Listing Emmons On Injury Rept
Topic Started: Dec 29 2005, 09:03 PM (22 Views)
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Giants face fine for silence

NFL probes injury report

BY RALPH VACCHIANO
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER

Tom Couglin and the Giants could be fined by the NFL for failing to list Carlos Emmons on their injury report two weeks ago.
According to a league spokesman, the NFL is looking into why the team didn't disclose that Emmons had aggravated his partially torn pectoral muscle during the week before their game against Kansas City on Dec.17. Teams are required to list all injuries on the official report, but Emmons' name never appeared before he was surprisingly deactivated 90minutes before kickoff.

According to Pat Hanlon, the Giants' VP of communications, that was because Emmons' status for the game wasn't in doubt until the day before the game, after the final injury report was released. The linebacker was sent for an MRI on the afternoon of Friday, Dec. 16, and the results weren't read by team doctors until Saturday morning.

"That reading, along with how Carlos felt physically at that point, was the first indication that Carlos may not be able to play in the Kansas City game," Hanlon said. He added that two hours before kickoff and 30 minutes before the active roster had to be submitted, Emmons was still testing his pec to see if he could play.

On Monday, however, Coughlin seemed to indicate that Emmons had been bothered by the injury all week long, and that the medical staff was "concerned."

"(Emmons) knew that he had re-injured it to a certain extent, (but) he did not know how much," Coughlin said. "He practiced the week and didn't get better, didn't get any stronger and was concerned about it - as was the medical staff. Then, at a late hour, the decision was made that it would be difficult for him to defend himself if he were to play."

Hanlon said Coughlin meant that the medical staff became concerned after practice that Friday, which is when it decided to send Emmons for the MRI.

The Giants expressed all of that to league officials in response to an inquiry they received from the NFL on Dec.20, three days after the Giants' 27-17 win. Teams have been fined between $10,000 and $25,000 for violating injury-report regulations in the past.

Originally published on December 29, 2005

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