It doesn’t make you an awful person to speculate on when or if the game might be played given the importance of it and the lateness in the season.

What do you do with the 7th seed?

Just a horrible night. Praying that he recovers

what i ment to ask is if a person is in critical condition for a long period are they just going to postpone it every day? I guess since there is no precident

it's not looking good. I truly was not thinking he died but now I really starting to think so

ugh

TO demolishing Skip Bayless on Twitter was sure something

Not sure how it wouldn't be.

Force Majeure

I'd go for that. Or as someone else suggested, just do a random drawing for the #1 seed. We don't want this situation to be a deciding factor.

100% this.

So...now they are replaying MNF Countdown?? THATS ****ing stupid...

Hope we get good news about him before tomorrow.

If the teams don't want to replay it they may just give the Bengals the win since they were up.

No, because each of these 3 teams had a shot at a bye and none should be advantaged or disadvantaged as a result of this outcome.

Why? They were already playing the Chiefs on a different day than those teams next weekend.

I've got a 24 year old. This is just flat out scary as a parent.

Give them the L they were going to get anyway

The only information anyone has that is not bare speculation is that he had a pulse and was taken to the hospital, and his condition is listed as critical.

I hope you're wrong obviously. Having a top flight staff and a level 1 hospital just a few miles away with a pulse are encouraging things.

Skip Bayless deserves it. What an absolutely ignorant comment Skip posted on his Twitter.

Really don't give a shit about beating the bills if the young man does not come out well. It's more than an asterisk in any case.

Yeah i kind of cringe when people rush to shame you for having any other thought besides praying for the injured.

Like obviously that's the top priority, but there are other things that will need to be addressed and just because you're considering them doesn't make you a terrible human.

It's not like anyone is wishing ill on the guy.

This is what I think happens.

If the news is bad (and hopefully it isn’t), is playing tomorrow really any better?

This sucks... Prayers to the young man.

pretty sure if Hamlin was OK they would've played on...

the wierd thing about 9/11 is people wanted to play to say **** you to terrorist

Yeah, I mean… no one here is supposed to be giving him medical attention right now. It’s ok to wonder. It doesn’t mean you don’t care about the player.

This kind of mars the entire season.

Really really sucks.

You really are a ****ing idiot. Jesus.

Sickening.

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Unfortunately that’s the world we live in… prayers to him, but if you add in another question about something related to the injury that doesn’t relate to the injury, you’re met with, how could you think of anything else at this moment in time?!?! You awful person you!

That's been my question all along.

i don't think it is but businesses move forward right or wrong

They better restart the game at the point where the injury occured and not play it out from the start. I know this probably isn't the right time to say it and I'm hoping we get some good news about Hamlin soon.

? How would that work though? They'd only have 16 games...unless I'm not understanding what you mean...

oh me too. I just think if he was ok, they'd have called the coaches and there would've been a game tonight. the fact they actually canceled it makes me fear the worst. I do hope I am.wrong for sure

No, it wouldn't be any better. It'd be like going to work the next day after a loved one dies or is in critical condition. Even playing next week will be difficult, but the Bills will have no choice but to play the Patriots.

Why are you saying all this

From an optics perspective it isn't at all. That's what makes this call so difficult.

Hope ESPN fires that old woman or Shannon punches him on the next show..

Shut the **** up you dolt.

sad situation

i cant imagine how tee higgins feels rn

That’s a really great idea. There is no way they will ever do it.

Damn it

That is not good at all!

Excuse my language but I am ****ing sick as shit over what happened to him :deevee:

Honestly, I don't fault them. You have to make snap decisions in these situations and you don't always get it right.

And I don't mind people asking about football implications as well. It doesn't mean anything negative toward the player, who we all obviously care about, but we just have a lot of down time.

I don't have kids but I do have nieces and nephews around that age and I can't imagine how to handle watching them get this kind of injury on TV

Just instant PTSD

We don’t really know who was aware of what as far as the player’s condition goes, or who supposedly said the game was going to continue and to warm up, if that actually occurred.

That's what we mean. They'll each have 16 games. Just like college teams don't all play the same amount of games. Will be an advantage for the Bills in the standings but that's obviously not how they intended it.

yes , it's much better than playing it tonight..for sure

Yeah, something like this has never happened before. There's no playbook on how to deal with this. Difficult stuff.

*17 game season, the league doesn't care about player safety because they increased the likelyhood of injuries

other situations that effected seasons

Not passing judgement on him at all but Burrow was taking practice throws.

Just a complete mind **** moment by the NFL there.

His parents were there. I couldn’t even imagine seeing that happen.

Critical condition seems like the only possible report. The other option would be dead.

Agree and I'm sure enough players would refuse that it won't happen.

They were gonna make them warm up for 5 minutes and keep playing. Unbelievable.

Perhaps you just give the bills the L and do not play any of the week 18 games (out of respect for the situation) and then start the playoffs the week after. The Bills were going to lose this game before the injury. You could also just suspend the game indefinitely but if the news is bad the Bills and league will not want to play this coming weekend either.

I hear you, I don't think there's anything definitive to report. Critical care means it's a precarious time for him.

I dont know why anyone is speculating anything other than this. Of course they will start the game from when the injury occured.

exactly. what are they going to do, postpone every game ? I mean at that time they didn't know the details....its probably protocol

Roger is a total ****ing ghoul

That would not be an advantage for the Bills. 14-3 > 13-3.

TV people need to leave the air telling us that they'll report news as they get it. All this bloviating needs to stop.

It’s just being hyperbolic. Nobody knew what was really going on at the time including whoever made that call. Injuries happen all the time and turn out to be scarier looking than reality.

This is just piling on at this point.

he works for Fox Sports, but yeah

Its always the NFLs fault...and Im growing tired of the narrative.

Thanks for trying to educate the masses here, doc.

Yea, he’s going to be listed as critical.

This is an uncharted situation, and there’s no way to know who knew what and when.

Maybe everyone ought to decide not to leap to performative outrage and just have a little grace for each other.

Too much revenue to cut an entire week of games. The NFL won't say it, but it's the truth.

I texted a friend who’s a surgeon and asked him, given what you saw and the fact he’s intubated and in critical condition, what is the outlook on something like that.

He said, “10% chance of survival.”

Yep

They're definitely not giving the Bills a loss here after this. Bills could forfeit I guess, but I don't expect that either given how much the game means to them.

This. It’s probably protocol for an injury. They needed time to figure out what to do.

There are hundreds of violent interactions that take place in every game every week in the NFL. You just never imagine one of them leading to this kind of an incident. Just an awful thing to see happen.

Prayers to Demar Hamlin and his family. Sending positive thoughts to them and the entire Bills organization.

No chance this happens. Not to mention we have no idea if the Bills would lose or not. It’s the first quarter.

Man