ChiefsPlanet - Football Bills/ Bengals [cancelled

Here’s a fair compromise.

Chiefs get the bye. Chiefs get home field advantage.

Chiefs agree to drop 1 DB to even the odds, so Josh Williams is inactive and unavailable to hold on every key third down.

*hides behind DJ as the Franchise enters the room*

LIFE ISN'T ****ING FAIR.

And whether we like to admit it or not, bad shit happening to the competition is often a great way to get ahead. Whether it's one of two competing businesses getting hit by lightning and burning to the ground, allowing the surviving business to flourish, or a bunch of players deciding not to continue a game because of a horrific on field injury, or Forrest Gump becoming the king of the Alabama shrimping industry because all the other boats got wiped out in the hurricane, it's all the same. Somebody else's bad luck gives you an opportunity and you run with it.

That's life, kids. Unfair. Cruel. Indifferent to your ****ing feels. The end.

RunKC

01-05-2023 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by staylor26 (Post 16711250)

It should be bye and a neutral site at worst.

In no way should the Chiefs have the 1 seed and be forced to play in Cincy or Buffalo.

It should be best winning % and normal rules at worst. If they do this it opens up possibilities for rule changes in the future.

I mean FFS the Bills have been sucked off by the league enough after the OT rule change bc of our win over them in the playoffs

DJ's left nut

01-05-2023 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Frazod (Post 16711340)

That's life, kids. Unfair. Cruel. Indifferent to your ****ing feels. The end.

Why do you hate Damar Hamlin and his family?

Bearcat

01-05-2023 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 16711322)

It really does seem strange that they don't have a 'hey, what if someone dies' protocol.

I kinda wonder if they do but at 'first contact' they chickened out and stuffed it in a drawer so now they're just trying to make shit up as they go in the hopes they don't piss anyone off.

"Hey Rodger - what are we supposed to do in a situation like this?"

"Hmmm....internal memoranda say we call it a no contest if the affected team isn't willing to resume play. Aw shit, that'll cost them the 1-seed? Boy we'll take hell for that. JANICE!!! Get our PR rep on line 2, we're gonna have to figure some stuff out..."

I just cannot fathom that they didn't have ANY plan for this kind of eventuality. It feels to me like they're just too cowardly to implement it.

Yeah, I'm sure they had a general plan (I'd sure ****ing hope so) and now it feels like they let too many cooks into the kitchen and to a larger extent than needed, now the teams or other pressures are helping call the shots.

DRM08

01-05-2023 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Gravedigger (Post 16711329)

If you truly believe the NFL is rigged then the Bills are winning the Super Bowl this year hands down.

It would make sense after the Bucs & Rams won rings in their home stadium the last 2 seasons.

staylor26

01-05-2023 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by RunKC (Post 16711341)

Blame people like yourself for creating a narrative that the Bills have just been put through the wringer this season ;)

Frazod

01-05-2023 11:23 AM

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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 16711344)

Why do you hate Damar Hamlin and his family?

Just a mean old white guy, apparently. :D

Rain Man

01-05-2023 11:24 AM

I hear that the league is considering giving every team a bye and homefield advantage.

Megatron96

01-05-2023 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Marcellus (Post 16711313)

Goodell makes about $40MM a year and he is absolutely scared shitless to make tough decisions unless a vacuum cleaner is involved.

Goodell is a very good, possibly great, salesman.

But as a CEO, a management professional, his history pretty clearly shows that he's barely adequate. And his non-actions in this event only back up that narrative.

I doubt he actually leads any discussions that involve anything outside sales and marketing. Probably a large part of why the NFL has always been so slow to act, why Goodell rarely (maybe never?) comes out and speaks immediately after any mishap; he's waiting for instructions.

FloridaMan88

01-05-2023 11:25 AM

What is the NFL waiting for to make the decision?

Hamlin seems to be out of immediate danger in terms of a life/death situation.

He's not going to wake up and walk out of the hospital any time soon, so they cannot wait for that.

milkshock

01-05-2023 11:25 AM

https://twitter.com/ProFootballTalk/...LolvWQ26s%3D19

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Graystoke

01-05-2023 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 16711354)

I hear that the league is considering giving every team a bye and homefield advantage.

What about snacks?

tk13	01-05-2023 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 16711322)

It really does seem strange that they don't have a 'hey, what if someone dies' protocol.

I just cannot fathom that they didn't have ANY plan for this kind of eventuality. It feels to me like they're just too cowardly to implement it.

Maybe. This is the same league that had to settle a concussion lawsuit for a billion dollars though. If they had documentation preparing for player deaths it could be used as evidence against them that football is unsafe. Probably better to pretend it's not possible. Hard to say though.

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