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Not sure what the answer is but I'm not sure pushing the playoffs back a week is feasible. That's 13 games to reschedule. We're not talking little league games here. NFL games are major undertakings. There's gotta be a way to simply call this a tie or something and move on. No, it's far from ideal but what else are you gonna do?

I honestly don't know enough about Demeco Ryans to have an opinion on him as a head coach candidate. I just want a great coach. If we hire him I hope he is one.

The first volley in the NFL's attempted PR barrage has been fired. https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2023/01/03/troy-vincent-nfl-did-not-consider-giving-players-five-minutes-to-warm-up-and-continue/

So you take no safety precautions at all in life? If you truly believed that when it's your time it's your time then you wouldn't. There would be nothing you could do about it anyway so why bother?

This is just a pure copium way to go through life. So why bother to wear a seatbelt, look both ways before crossing a road, try to take care of yourself, etc? When it's your time it's your time, right? Hell, we can just go jump off a bridge and if it's not our time then I guess some miraculous intervention will save us.

If they know they can get Payton they might be willing to go that route anyway minus a run to the AFC CG or something like that. I mean, if you have a talent at QB like Herbert and you have the opportunity to go get a Sean Payton and you're willing to overlook the bountygate poo (I wouldn't be), then you go get him.

Oh, for sure. I fully understand that. Funny enough, having a pair of balls would've actually saved him tonight

Benefit of the doubt isn't needed. You gotta already have a vendetta and be reaching pretty hard to find issue with that tweet. I hate having to defend that douchebag but there's just nothing there.

Damn. In other news, Ken Block died in a snowmobile accident today.

I mean, two of the biggest were involved tonight in Allen and Burrow.

If it's true Goodell is as good as done. He'll try to spin it as protocol whatever but he'll be done. There will be no saving him. That's how it felt watching it live. That's how ESPN interpreted it. In an effort to avoid a PR disaster the NFL created one. This will be used as an example of how not to handle PR in crucial situations for years. It was BAD. You can't just clam up and go silent leaving your media partner to try to cover for you from a distance with no info. They waited almost half an hour to officially temporarily suspend the game. It was nearly an hour before they officially called it off for the night. Zero other communication in the meantime. Meanwhile your media partner (and the fans in the stadium) is watching players walking around with no uniforms and the sidelines getting packed up knowing this game isn't going to continue. Silence isn't an option. But it's the path Goodell and the NFL chose. This will cost Goodell his commissionership.

Honestly, I think Skip Bayless is nothing more than a professional troll but I think y'all are looking too much into a poorly thought out tweet. I didn't read it as nefarious. I think he was basically thinking out loud. I made a similar post earlier. Like how are they going to reschedule this game this late in the season even if they want to? He ended it by saying it feels like it really doesn't matter in the current atmosphere. It was basically just clumsily worded. He's a professional blowhard dickhead but I'm just not seeing the awfulness in that tweet.

That fanbase is pretty incredible. I seem to recall they went wild with donations to some type of fundraiser for a hospital Josh Allen out together. Like a whole damn wing of the hospital is named after one of Allen's family members now type of wild.

Yeah. I was agreeing with you.

I quit playing in HS because the reality that I was too small to be this slow was apparent to me. I had no future in the game past this level so let's just call it now. But what Ryan Clark said resonated with me at 40. He said at 24 I didn't even know that I COULD die. It's true. Yeah, you know. But you don't know. Most people have fortunately never had to face their own mortality at that age. You haven't faced any serious health issues and your immediate family is probably still alive and relatively healthy. At 16 I was in a bad mountain biking crash. I was knocked out cold and bit through my tongue so hard I chipped several teeth and cracked my helmet almost completely in half. My entire thoughts on the matter were, damn that sucked. Literally never occured to me it could've been so much worse. At 19 I was involved in a partial ejection rollover car crash. Same thing. Damn, that sucked. Keep it moving. You're just invincible on your own mind at that age.

Consider this

That seems super promising giving the situation.

Yeah, I just don't see how this game ever gets played/finished.

If it comes out that they actually tried to restart this game and the players and coaches had to step in and say hell no, Goodell is done. The outcry for his head on a stick will be too much to ignore. You'll ha e a ton of corporate sponsors stepping in to put the pressure of the wallet on the league.

Not sure what the NFL protocol would be here, but I won't be shocked if this game is ultimately just flat out cancelled and registered as a tie. This late in the season I don't see how they can squeeze it in even if they wanted to.

This could be Goodell's undoing. Other than trying to force these guys back into the field the NFL couldn't have handled this any worse.

ESPN heavily speculating that it was the players and coaches that called this thing off.

Yep, zero judgements on the fans. I think ESPN handled it as well as they could. The NFL fuging botched it on their end.

Many of them were likely waiting on an official update on the player.

Goodell. The NFL's policy on these situations has already been posted. It's his call.