# NFL 2021: Week Seventeen Again

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-week-seventeen-again/957085>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Tags:** football-nfl\
**Created:** [January 2, 2022, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-week-seventeen-again/957085 "2022-01-02T16:41:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2022, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-week-seventeen-again/957085/121 "2022-01-06T22:02:43Z")

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> [@Hamlet](#):
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> “at no point during the game did he indicate he could not play.”

That article is leaving out a part of that quote from the Bucs statement:

“at no point during the game did he indicate to our medical personnel that he could not play.”

Brown’s statement talks about him telling his _coach_ about his ankle, so the two statements aren’t necessarily contradictory.

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**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2022, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-week-seventeen-again/957085/122 "2022-01-07T15:02:12Z")

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So Brown is claiming he’s got an MRI from Monday morning that shows his ankle is basically a collection of bone shards and shredded cartilage. Now his medical condition and records are between him and his doctor, no question, but it seems releasing a copy of that MRI and/or going to the union with it would vindicate everything he’s been saying, and make his former team look like a bunch of asshats.

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**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2022, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-week-seventeen-again/957085/123 "2022-01-07T15:14:36Z")

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He also claimed to have a COVID vaccination record, so I would take this with a grain of salt.

No one is coming out of this looking good.

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**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2022, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-2021-week-seventeen-again/957085/124 "2022-01-07T17:03:56Z")

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> [@muldoonthief](#):
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> So Brown is claiming he’s got an MRI from Monday morning that shows his ankle is basically a collection of bone shards and shredded cartilage.

Antics aside, who’s going to sign him to a team now?

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