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While he’s not yet unleashed a Nick Saban tantrum or called the press the enemy of the people Jihad Ward Jersey , Eagles coach Doug Pederson is growing increasingly weary regarding questions regarding who will play quarterback for his team when the Super Bowl title defense begins in only four days.

Via Jeff McLane of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Pederson said during a Sunday press conference that he won’t comment on the starting quarterback for Thursday night’s game, basing his position not on basic (but impractical) notions of football strategy but on the fact that a report emerged on Saturday that Nick Foles will start instead of Carson Wentz.

In that same press conference, Pederson also said Wentz has yet to be cleared for contact, making it even more likely that Foles will play.

As a practical matter, it’s impossible for any NFL coach to keep this information secret. Someone will be getting the first-team reps at practice. And someone at practice will say something to someone about who’s getting those first-team reps.

Unless a team truly splits the reps down the middle and the coaching staff doesn’t bother to tell which of the candidates will indeed be starting, there’s no way to secure this information. And yet NFL coaches continue to allow themselves to be tormented by the reality that the identity of the starting quarterback for any given game will always be the worst-kept secret in pro football.

It wasn’t supposed to get out so quickly, but it did. And now at least one Hall of Famer is trying to shout it down as (you guessed it) #fakenews.

That’s what Cris Carter said regarding the PFT report that the Hall of Fame is considering what would surely be known as the T.O. rule — a requirement that candidates for enshrinement commit in advance to attending the enshrinement ceremony. But, as so often happens when that term is often used in other arenas Brandon Allen Jersey , the news isn’t fake, just inconvenient.

PFT has re-confirmed via a third source what was reported earlier in the day. The subject of an advance commitment to attend the enshrinement ceremony came up on Friday during both the annual Ray Nitschke luncheon (attended exclusively by members of the Hall of Fame) and the meeting of the Hall of Fame’s board of trustees. The Hall of Fame staff has been asked to develop a rule, and the Hall of Fame’s lawyers currently are in the early stages of crafting language.

As one source explained it, the board of trustees is not pleased at all about the failure of Owens to show up. The board hopes to make it very difficult for someone to do it again, that a plan is moving forward in this regard, and that it was agreed no one would say anything about it for now. (Oops.)

There’s surely a financial motivation at work here. The weekend brings thousands of people — and hundreds of thousands of dollars — to Canton. Friday night’s Gold Jacket dinner, for example, featured tickets that cost $145 each, and at least 4 John Sullivan Jersey ,000 people attended the event at the Canton Civic Center.

This doesn’t mean that a potential T.O. rule will be finalized, especially if there’s enough opposition to it before it becomes official. So far, the reaction has been largely negative, possibly negative enough to persuade someone with the power to pull the plug to do so.

And the plug should be pulled. The gold jacket and bronze bust become earned via a career in football, not through a pledge to show up at a series of parties and events associated with officially joining the ranks of the supposed immortals. Player, coaches, and contributors either belong in the Hall of Fame or they don’t, regardless of whether they respond properly to the “be there or be square” mandate.

Really, what’s next? A threat to rescind Hall of Fame status if Henry Anderson Jersey , for example, someone who really didn’t want to show up agrees to show up and then aggressively criticizes during the speech the selection process or other flaws regarding the Hall of Fame? Could the commitment to attend morph into an oath to say nothing negative about the Hall of Fame or, for that matter, any fellow members of the Hall of Fame, for life?

Enacting this rule would be a huge mistake, and this is where the someone on the inside needs to stand up and say, “Look, folks. This was a one-time thing from a unique personality. It’s not going to become a trend. And if it does, isn’t that the right of the person who earned enshrinement? Maybe instead of creating a barrier to entry we should take the criticism to heart and re-examine the selection process.”

If only someone with that kind of vision Todd Gurley Jersey , power, and influence over the sport of football were on the board of trustees. Oh, wait, someone is.
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