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Originally Posted by Marcellus
A team that is considering not playing this Sunday is suddenly going to become some mentally tough juggernaut?
They have shown me nothing but they are mentally weak and lack leadership.
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I haven't really heard anything to lead me to the mentally weak part, at least not the players.... I mean, there are probably lots of examples of players saying they were crazy shaken up, didn't want to play, etc; after major injuries. That doesn't mean the Bills players wouldn't have played.
With the little info that's come out, it seems like coaches/GM might be white knighting them a bit too much... and yeah, they might lack leadership like the NFL is at the moment.
Too many cooks and giving everyone a say isn't great when you have a billion dollar industry to run. The NFL really should have already had a policy in place for something like this, even as uncommon as it is, and had the NFLPA signed off..... if there's a death on the field, do you suspend play or who approves/agrees to that... and if so, what's the policy for forfeit or resuming, etc.
I thought suspending play was the way to go and we can certainly evolve from "the way it's always been"... but it's not inhumane to plan ahead a tiny bit, either.