Kinda my thought as well.

Why would we presume he needs over a year to recover from a knee that needed surgery but didn't need an ACL reconstruction.

Rumors were 10-12 months based on the more minor PLC repair rather than a full ACL replacement. Even on the far side of that, I don't think you'd bother to PUP him. You don't need the roster spot THAT badly. We've had CJ Hanson on the roster all season and I don't think he's so much as been active on gameday yet.

We aren't going to be so hard up against the 53 that we can't just keep Rice on it and make him a gameday inactive if he's 'still recovering'.

Guys, Rice is gonna be back for OTAs. PUP is not gonna happen.

Rice was on the sideline with Hollywood Sunday night.

I'll be his chances of playing in the playoffs this year are better than him missing training camp. (both very low IMO)

Hell, it looks like Sam Williams was actually ON the IR when the suspension was announced and he was allowed to serve it while on the IR just a month or so ago.

https://sports.yahoo.com/cowboys-ser...012553031.html

The NFL would have to royally (and intentionally) **** the Chiefs by waiting until after Rice is fully recovered to announce the suspension. If they do that, Clark Hunt should go murder Goodell's pets.

That's just petty and I see no reason at all that they'd do it.

Which is exactly what I've been suggesting since his injury happened. Suspend him ASAP.

That's been my argument all along.

Yeah, it makes sense for the same reasons previously mentioned (still punishes the player by costing them their gamechecks).

I thought it required a little injury designation gamesmanship but no, it doesn't appear so.

Just really doesn't seem to be anything to worry about unless/until we get to camp and a suspension still hasn't been announced. In which case I think we'd just be getting screwed over.

Been waiting patiently for this... but nothing yet. So I'll stand and deliver:


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His court date is this month. They were never gonna do it until that hearing happens.

Right but I assume he knows that.

Rice is not going to be suspended.

The NFL can’t start suspending every player involved in a high speed auto accident.

Little bit more involved in Rice's case, no? Not just in that particular incident but also a couple other incidents.

Good luck believing that.

LMAO

The ones with several felony charges against them tend to attract a bit more scrutiny from the league.

Would love if you were right on this one. But I fear he'll get a suspension of some sort. Had it been domestic violence, he would have already been suspended. Unfortunate that they couldn't get the suspension to coincide with his time on the IR.

Yeah, I was gonna say the same thing. He's for sure getting suspended.

Well, he was more than just involved in an accident. It’s not lot like he got in some fender bender and was cited for following too closely.

Ah, so we're back to 'FELONIES!!!!!' eh?

Y'all have a good ol' time relitigating that one...

FELONIES!!!!!!

Regardless of the circumstances, do you think the NFL is just gonna slap his wrist and let him go? He's gonna get suspended. This wasn't really just a traffic stop.

Oh I've said all along that I figure something will happen. But I've also shown several instances where conduct as bad or worse got 1 game. And nothing remotely close to the 8 games being suggested. I can't even really get to an analogue at 4.

In a fair world, he gets 1 based on established precedent. In a likely world, he gets 2 for being a name player on a marquee franchise. In Goodell's crazy make-believe world of ****ing Clark because he's amenable to it, he gets 4.

But I think it's FAR more likely that he gets zero than it is that he gets more than that.

Because in the end, FELONY or not, leaving the scene of an accident is the charge. And that's a hell of a lot less gnarly from a PR standpoint than some of the 'menacing' charges or firearms charges that guys DO get a slap on the wrist for.

I don't know man. If he gets only a game, the entirety of the NFL is going to have a meltdown because the Chiefs are cheating again. From a PR standpoint, there's a lot for Goodell to gain from throwing a Chief under the bus.

It would just be nice if there was some actual consistency to how these fines/suspensions/punishments were handed down. One guy gets 1 game for beating his gf's ass, another gets 6 games for throwing a phone/kicking the crap out of a vacuum cleaner or whatever. As it is, we all have to sit here and wonder just wth Goodell will actually do on what appears to be pure whimsy.

Without getting political, there are certain issues that behooves both parties to argue about more than it does to solve them. They're better served having a bad guy to shout about than they are knocking the bad guy out of commission.

This is one of those instances.

The league is better served having the Chiefs as the big nasty villain and drive conversation than they are cutting the legs out from under said villain and then having little else to discuss out of the AFC.

Nah - The Shield doesn't benefit from gutting the Chiefs. You can sheer a sheep over and over again, you can only skin it once.

Skinning us doesn't do Roger any good.

Let’s not get too excited.

He’ll probably get like 3-4 targets per game for the rest of the seasons/post season.

Right?

Yeah, that makes sense.

He better stretch out those Hammys real good too..

That is reason night to get excited.

Hollywood’s return won’t mean much if Mahomes has no time to throw.

We have plenty of receiving weapons already.

We just need the line to ****ing block is all

He will help us by getting open quickly.

This is good news! It would be great news if the O-line could block for more than half a second.

Did I miss some stuff about Rice? He injured his PCL there was originally talk he could even make it back for the AFCCG or the Super Bowl.

Now we’re talking about him missing part of the regular season next year to this injury?

Can I get a link to the update that suggested this timeline?

and having two burners on the field at the same time...He's already gone through the entire pre-season. There is no learning curve for him...unlike Hopkins.

I expect him to make an impact pretty quickly...

Damn, I thought I was in a Hollywood Thread

Feels like we’re treating the Texans game as the big one. Getting Brown, Humphries and Nelson back in the team for that game, ideally secure the #1 seed with a win (if we beat Browns and Lions beat Bills).

Gives us freedom to rest starters on Christmas Day after the 4 day turnaround

I don't have any links, but I remember the talk off the bat being he was definitely out for the rest of the year, playoffs and Super Bowl included, but he would be back in time to participate in the full off season schedule.

Good comment. This discussion is not about Rashee Rice.

Why? I'm totally stoked, and he will get more targets than that.

Hollywood was injured on the first play of the first preseason game. He did nothing after that. He missed the entire preseason. I would say that there will be a bit of a learning curve.

Didn’t they already admit to making the schedule difficult for us to try to stop the THREEPEAT?

Keep your negativity confined to the GDT, please and thanks.

Hollywood will up the teams average speed and that cant hurt even if he is rusty.

How so...he's been in the meetings all season after a month of practice at camp.

It will if they have another quick separator they can trust to win quickly against man.

Teams have had success gumming up the offense the past two seasons because the Chiefs don't have many "quick win" options at WR/TE against man. Hopkins and Kelce can win against man, but they aren't quick-win types.

Brown separates really effectively on short-and-intermediate routes. He is quick and has dangerous deep speed.

Playing single high or cover 0 is dangerous if the offense has time to take deep shots and run some combo routes downfield with speed. It also is dangerous if the offense has some gamebreakers who can make one man miss and be off to the races, outrunning angles.

Brown gives you another option like that, in addition to Worthy.

Exactly. Brown is the kind of guy that you can get the ball to quickly. That slows down, and sometimes completely negates, the opposing pass rush.

It's a symbiotic relationship.

Sorry to disappoint y'all, but Jeff Chadiha has flatly declared that the return of Hollywood Brown will have "zero" impact.

Shit!!!

Yeah it's Chadiha. Still trying to prove to everyone he's not a Chiefs shill. Put him on ignore.

It's weird to me how often he is on Chiefs/KC shows and literally just spreads his ass and shits on everything.

Has Rex Ryan said anything about it?

Like I said yesterday, he's a KC guy. Since he went national, he's gone above and beyond to prove he's not a KC homer. He's so worried about appearing biased for the Chiefs that he's developed a firm bias against them.

I don't mind someone being more reasoned but like when he says this is the worst team of the Mahomes era, really bro?

What did Nate Taylor say?

I want to point out the funniest shit ever about him also. When he does that podcast with Petro, I literally know what they're going to say before they do.

Petro-Ardent homer

McDowell-reasoned homer

Chadia-hates everything Chiefs

Then someone in their chat will call out Chadiha for being ridiculous to which Petro and McDowell will literally rush to his defense and make fun of the listener, it's funny and ridiculous at the same time.

I can’t stomach that show. I rarely listen to Chadiha on SSJ’s show anymore, but I did catch some of his appearance this week, hence the Brown nugget of wisdom. Which just reminded me why I usually skip him.

Chadiha needs to take a step back from going on Chiefs shows, the Chiefs success mixed with his attitude about it just doesn't mesh well. Fingering waving that your team isn't all that good in the midst of a historic run just doesn't sit well.

Chadiha has always sucked. Yes Jeff I’m sure a veteran version of Xavier Worthy being injected to this offense changes nothing when it’s run by guys past their prime with little explosion.

Good grief

Yes, that's exactly it. You can't mock SSJ and Jake for being optimistic about the Chiefs when they've scoreboarded your ass for half a decade.

"Oh, you think they're gonna win a playoff game? You think they're gonna win a Super Bowl? Huh, OK, I guess." Have some humility, dude.

They clowned his ass on Jeff’s love of the Bengals.. Which he pronounces “Bangles”… ****er can’t even say their name right… No respect for that clown..

I'd think that is what you got Worthy for though, and it's just not really been a big thing.

Hollywood will absolutely help, but unless/until they can get the QB back confident I dunno.

He's a Lions fan now though!

That drives me nuts.

He became truly intolerable after he hitched his wagon to Lamar Jackson winning a SB first. It's been all downhill since Mahomes did it and he's just been trying to prove that he wasn't wrong about his 'concerns'.

He was bad 5 years ago. He's real real REAL bad now.

You can immediately determine Chadiha's stance on a team by reviewing the demographics of the city they play in.

I'll let you glean from that information what you will.

Chadiha's as transparent a hack as the industry has.

Whaaaaaaaaaaat?

You don't !@#$in' say...

That's really weird for Jeffrey Chadiha. I would never ever EVER have guessed he would stan for Detroit

Oh wait...

I kind of agree, I don’t see Hollywood coming in and lighting it up like some here are assuming.

Expect a drop pass or two and a very slow start his first game. Overall he’s going to have a Mecole Hardman type of impact the rest of the season.

On Xavier Worthy's mic'd up Hollywood is standing on the sidelines at the Chargers game and even gives Worthy advice at certain parts of the game. Was great to see. Having him in the mix is certainly gonna change things because defenses are going to have to make decisions they don't have to make right now.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="art" dir="ltr">⏰ <a href="https://t.co/CRQN0EFzpG">https://t.co/CRQN0EFzpG</a></p>&mdash; Hollywood Brown (@Primetime_jet) <a href="https://twitter.com/Primetime_jet/status/1867377011054051626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 13, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Looks like he's favoring it a bit.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">He&#39;s back ��<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Chiefs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Chiefs</a> WR Hollywood Brown returned to the practice field on Friday <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ChiefsKingdom?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ChiefsKingdom</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/KSHB41?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KSHB41</a> <a href="https://t.co/riOZjgTaJy">pic.twitter.com/riOZjgTaJy</a></p>&mdash; Matt Foster (@MattFosterTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattFosterTV/status/1867630197996200075?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 13, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Didn't look like it to me.

He keeps the elbow bent a lot. It's pretty clear he's not entirely comfortable.

How do you favor a sternoclavicular injury?
Asking for a friend

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Uncharted territory for an NFL player to best of my knowledge. Have never heard of anyone playing football with SC joint stabilization - pretty rare thing and fascinating case study<br><br>Best of luck to the player <a href="https://t.co/EuR8LoHP4N">https://t.co/EuR8LoHP4N</a></p>&mdash; Aaron Borgmann (@RehabAllStar) <a href="https://twitter.com/RehabAllStar/status/1867360032654082495?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 13, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Clay is so ****ing full of shit LMAO

He spent almost the entirety of the first part of the video with his hands in his pockets. How could you tell?

His elbow was bent there, too. He was using the hand warmer for support.

It just looks to me like that left arm is a little stiff, that's all.

There was a video of him catching balls and he wasn't using his left arm at all a couple weeks ago. I'm sure he's still working on being comfortable with full range of motion in that shoulder and arm.