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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
In fairness, what team wouldn't be destroyed in the real NFL by having 8 starters go on the IR? And when a player goes on the IR in real life, the Chiefs don't get to dip into an offseason FA pool - they have to go sign a street FA, which is the caliber of player you'd be getting by not filling the role with a real player.
Sandbox is kinda built to have some degree of difficulty in it and to maintain some level of realism. If the Chiefs lost 8 of their starters to the IR, they'd be a 2 win football team. Well...you may be in that boat.
I agree with CD - with as much advanced notice as we get and with Sandbox trying to stay as true to life as possible, I don't think there should be an IR. The street FA function is a reasonable approximation.
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The more I think about it, I'm inclined to agree. We have a 53-man roster, and we don't have to have a long snapper and special teams guys, so we can build our team a little differently. And with advance knowledge of injuries, we can work to fill the worst holes with perfect knowledge as we go.
It wouldn't bother me a lot to do an IR, but one thing I like about our current setup is that it's more realistic than fantasy football since we can't constantly upgrade our rosters during the season. It's more a matter of trying to keep a working roster as guys go down with injuries, which is more like the real world.