Sometimes reality shows can be a little too real.
The Giants are experiencing that this month, with Hard beats showing the world a lot about the inner workings of an NFL team during the crucial stages of the offseason. The Lions might be getting a taste of that, too.
During the first episode of Receiver on Netflix, receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown reveals he suffered an oblique injury in Week 3 against the Falcons. The next game came just four days later against the Packers.
“We have a Thursday game after Atlanta,” explains St. Brown. “So I can barely — I mean, I’m running, but the pain is like, on a 10 it’s like on an eight. Eight or nine. And then I’m like, ‘It’s too late for me not to play. The game plan is set. Painkillers is something I really don’t like taking, unless…unless it’s the Packers.”
St. Brown really played. But he didn’t appear on any of the three pregame injury reports.
He caught five passes for 56 yards against the Packers, including a touchdown that resulted in beer being spilled on his helmet.
The question now is whether the league will flood the Lions with some late scrutiny, given that St. Brown was clearly injured (he missed the next game because of it) and the Lions didn’t disclose that until Week 4.
The problem could easily have been avoided when editing the episode. They didn’t need to include the fact that the injury originally occurred in Week 3.
But they did. Now the league has to deal with this. Or not. Either way, the situation proves once again that injury reports are far from effective and that insider trading is rampant.
In that case, anyone who knew about the injury could have bet on St. Brown to hit the under on his receiving yards prop of 72.5 yards.
Then again, the NFL can be proactive and address these issues. Or you can wait for the shit to hit the fan before you’re surprised to find smelly brown stains of fecal matter all over the place.
