02-18-2021, 01:43 PM
(02-18-2021, 12:32 PM)fredtoast Wrote: The player tells the team when he is healthy enough to play? I have never heard of such a thing.
Why aren't more players filing grievences when they think they re ready to return but the team disagrees?
If a team is saying he isn't, and a second opinion says he is, the player would potentially have a grievance to file if the team still refused to let him play. Now "let him play" can mean a lot of things, the team could dress him and not play him. They could make him a "healthy" inactive. Really all it would do is remove any sort of injury designation from the player and allow him to practice.
Usually, both sides come to an agreement on these things and it never gets that far. Most guys are still getting paid so they don't mind getting shut down when they are banged up, there have been grievances filed by players however over being sent to IR for injuries that did not necessarily require an IR designation as a means to stash them rather than cut them to make room for another guy.
As I said before though if a player absolutely refused to wear a brace, it is going to be really hard to require one using a medical excuse.
