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Originally Posted by Bearcat
Yeah, it was a bit of a chickenshit thing to do.
Resume play, maybe lose.
Don't play, let the NFL figure it out.
And there's no evidence the NFL was ever going to follow their own rulebook or else they probably would have played... and really no evidence the NFL knew WTF they were going to do.
Great coaches WANT to control their own destiny and take their chances against anyone... and for as shitty as the options may have been for the Bills, they at least had the choice.
If the Bills were told it would be a forfeit, would they have played? Yeah, probably. So, not playing anyway was kind of chickenshit.
They were truly the only team in this mess that got to choose their own path (I'm sure the Bengals were mostly following their lead).... and they chose to defer to the NFL and have them figure it out, instead of deciding it on the field.
Dude could be "NFL humanitarian of the year", but there wasn't much "leading the team" this week or coaching.
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All of this. The entire mess we are dealing with now lies squarely at the feet of Buffalo and CHOOSING not to get on with life and finish the game out. Well… and a little bit with the league for not just simply telling them to play or forfeit. But Buffalo put them in that shitty (only because are overly emotional society would pitch a bitch fit) situation.
I’ve said it before over the past couple of years as some of our fans have taking to liking Buffalo as our rivalry with them builds - I’ve never liked them. Just one of those teams, like Pittsburg, I just cannot like them. And after this stunt, they can most certainly go **** themselves.