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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Firethorn1001" data-source="post: 1027467" data-attributes="member: 11511">Your opinion is that you hope a S&C coach is going to come in and dictate to the front office or medical staff that they can't put a player on the IR in order to preserve incentive based contracts?  I think you are over evaluating the amount of power any S&C coach has.I do not recall stories of the Packers doing this recently.   There have been other cases that have come up in the NFL.  Derek Carr was benched in 2022 to preserve his health so he was more tradeable and try to avoid injury and having his 2023 guaranteed with the Raiders.   I thought there was something with Russell Wilson this year too.NFLPA/Agents/Players aren't stupid though.  Teams start to do that then they will just advise other players in the future to avoid certain teams offering those and get them in more concrete terms.    I'm sure you will always have players accusing teams of doing this and, on the opposite side, teams accusing players of milking minor injuries to be avoid major injury before free agency.</blockquote>

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