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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
That's what the lawyers call an 'efficient breach'.
When you have a pre-existing obligation to do a thing you no longer want to do and you determine that the costs of doing that thing are outweighed by the benefits of NOT doing that thing, you go ahead and accept the consequences of not doing it confident in the knowledge that you still come out ahead of where you'd be had you gone ahead and done it.
So if the Bills are content in the knowledge that NOT playing will them less than playing will, that's fine - don't play. But you're not absolved of the consequences of not playing.
So Buffalo can take the forfeit if they'd like, but it's asinine to hold the league up while we wait for them to 'get their minds right'. That's not the way this works.
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Yep, pretty much what I was getting at. The NFL can't make BUF do anything, but how BUF chooses to act going forward will have consequences. They can choose not to play, or vice versa, and the NFL will act accordingly.
What happens next is on BUF. And not making a decision is the same thing as making one, at a certain stop point.