First of all...latest report is Damar Hamlin is awake and holding the hands of his family members. Keep fighting, young man.

I legit started this post off muscle memory, because it's Thursday morning. No game tonight...but some Saturday games. We got a slew of division games this weekend and a good number of them will have division and overall seeding implications. On to the games, gents.

Saturday

Chiefs @ Raiders

Titans @ Jags (good old fashioned winner takes all)

Sunday

Early

Browns @ Steelers (Pittsburgh needs a lot to happen for them to get in, but damn am I pulling for them)

Ravens @ Bengals

Vikes @ Bears (Justin Fields out. Bears get #1 pick with a loss to the Vikes and a Texans win @ Indy)

Pats @ Bills

Jets @ Dolphins

Bucs @ Falcons (who even plays for Tampa?)

Panthers @ Saints

Texans @ Colts

Late

Cards @ Niners

Boys @ Commanders (Sam Howell starting, The Lizard on backup and Wentz inactive)

Rams @ Hawks

Giants @ Eagles (God help me...I'm a Giants' fan)

Chargers @ Broncos

SNF (FLEXED)

Lions @ Packers

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https://twitter.com/ultCLEsports/status/1610638003990573056?s=20&t=HoGMOArzxCZbyS6li8U0aA

*Originally posted by obsidianchysalis


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>https://twitter.com/ultCLEsports/status/1610638003990573056?s=20&t=HoGMOArzxCZbyS6li8U0aA

I would take some of this with a grain of salt, some of that info has been addressed or is inaccurate. Specifically in Damar's situation the NFL has said it would cover his medical bills going forward, and some of the disability statistics given are not correct.

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Based on what you shared, his point still stands. But if someone makes a bold statement, it needs to be backed up by accurate facts.

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>>https://twitter.com/ultCLEsports/status/1610638003990573056?s=20&t=HoGMOArzxCZbyS6li8U0aA
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>I would take some of this with a grain of salt, some of that
>info has been addressed or is inaccurate. Specifically in
>Damar's situation the NFL has said it would cover his medical
>bills going forward, and some of the disability statistics
>given are not correct.

a public statement in the heat of the moment does not a promise make

..at the close of the regular season.

I know traditionalist will likely frown at the idea of losing the leverage that was typically awarded to teams with the best record in their respective conference, but its fairly obvious that health is more important. Teams will still be incentivized to earn home field at advantage. Leaving a week open btwn the regular season and the start of the playoffs gives the NFL the opportunity to handle unforeseen circumstances (like the cancelled Bengals/Bills game).

*Some may argue that the current bye week format should not be abandoned, but that format unfairly favors teams with bye weeks scheduled later in the season. This new proposal removes the unfair advantage randomly created by playing musical chairs throughout the season.

What say you?



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back and allow the game to take place during that bye week. All the other
teams would be allowed to rest before their PO game, where as the Bills/Bengals
would go straight into their PO game without having a week off.

And then there is the risk of players getting injured prior to their scheduled PO
game. Towards the end of the season, most players are hurting and aching from
having to endure a long season, so rest and recuperation are of the utmost
importance to make a deep PO run.

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not as a solution to this season

-The Knicks’ coaching search still includes a lone frontrunner, Kurt Rambis, whose qualifications for the position include a strong relationship with Jackson and a willingness to take the job.

..you are correct, I'm referring to moving forward. Its clear that the game will likely be cancelled altogether.

*For the sake of clarity (allStah lol):

MOVING FORWARD, the league would ditch the current "bye week" randomized format (henceforth known as musical chairs) and simply make the bye week available to everyone at the close of the regular season. This new format ensures that there's no competitive advantage given (esp considering the current system employed) and everyone still gets the benefit of a week off to prepare for the playoffs. Teams are still incentivized because home-field advantage is still in play.

The current Bye Week format is dated and could use improvement. Why not use this moment to resolve a long-standing issue and ensure that you never have to worry about making up a game that's called for unforeseen circumstances?


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I think only option would be to get rid of the bye week before the SB, doubt they want that tho either. And even then, would be up to the Bills and Bengals if would want to play an extra weekend and move playoffs back. Bills getting a win, a bye and home field might be incentive enough but a loss would do nothing for them. I also read an idea of a neutral field for AFC championship game, not sure that makes sense tho.

..While I appreciate the response, this isn't about attempts to salvage anything regarding the current season. I'm talking about the bye week moving forward.



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You didn’t make that clear.

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"..Perhaps it's time to reconsider rescheduling the bye week at the close of the regular season?.."


I never said a word about pushing to do so this year, to salvage anything regarding the current scenario. I spoke about improving the current format for scheduling, to better handle things like this moving forward.

• Everyone gets a bye week, avoiding any possible competitive advantage.
• The Shield has a week to advertise/celebrate teams that made the playoffs, similar to the week leading up to the Super Bowl.

More importantly, the Shield can still generate revenue, without adding games to the schedule, creating more excitement around the playoffs, with wiggle room to mitigate any unforeseen circumstances.


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Maybe it's time to revisit that.

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instead of getting flexed to SNF

Vrabel need to go get us a QB and some playmakers this offseason. the roster we went into the season with was shameful and JRob was appropriately shitcanned.

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not resume the Bills/Bengals game, and that it will be ruled
a NC

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2023/01/05/nfl-wont-resume-bills-bengals-game/amp/

I imagine the NFL will give a press conference to confirm those reports before Saturday’s
games.

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and to win of course

NE also has to lose but they are playing in Buffalo and I can’t see how they would lose this game. They might put up 60 by halftime.

but the Jets winning in Miami? tough but not impossible, especially if Miami is playing its 3rd string QB.

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>and to win of course
>
>NE also has to lose but they are playing in Buffalo and I
>can’t see how they would lose this game. They might put up
>60 by halftime.

that's not a given at this point that game could swing either way

>but the Jets winning in Miami? tough but not impossible,
>especially if Miami is playing its 3rd string QB.

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by writing and wrote a note asking "Did we win?"

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-The Knicks’ coaching search still includes a lone frontrunner, Kurt Rambis, whose qualifications for the position include a strong relationship with Jackson and a willingness to take the job.

have a bye week and exactly who will that be

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..great to hear about this.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/35386879/tee-higgins-feels-better-communicating-damar-hamlin-mom



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like all of the other major sports.

home field is advantage enough. and they already got rid of 1 teams bye week. just get rid of the remaining one and give us 2 extra games the 1st weekend.

it makes it more exciting to have a #1 seed possibly get knocked off by a #8 underdog each year too. plus makes games at the end of the season more meaningful to more teams (and betting activity lol).

hopefully whatever they end up doing to resolve all of this gets the ball moving in that direction for future playoffs.

-The Knicks’ coaching search still includes a lone frontrunner, Kurt Rambis, whose qualifications for the position include a strong relationship with Jackson and a willingness to take the job.

never actually played football lol

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https://www.yahoo.com/sports/nfl-announces-bills-bengals-game-will-not-be-resumed-neutral-site-afc-championship-game-being-considered-021730885.html

This is a reasonable compromise to me. Not saying it's perfect, but this is better than just letting KC get the 1 seed if they beat the Raiders Saturday. Obviously KC would still get the bye.

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>

He continues to get offers with less guaranteed money than Watson and other 'just got paid' folks, hot take-a-mania continues on, and, depending on how ticked he is about it, he goes elsewhere. I hope he doesn't LeVeon Bell himself. AKA go somewhere to get more money only to end up in a somehow worse situation offensively AND get the average bro/lame talk show hate thrown on him if/when him and his new team are less successful than him and his prior run in Baltimore.

If the Ravens weren't dead set on giving him WRs who kinda obviously aren't good, my take would be for him to get as much money in Baltimore as he can, stay, and at least keep being competitive.

Cleveland needed something to hook him and keep him away from places like Seattle, Atlanta and other warm weather cities in the southeast that were interested. I think the only way Cleveland got him was the guaranteed money.

>He continues to get offers with less guaranteed money than
>Watson and other 'just got paid' folks, hot take-a-mania
>continues on, and, depending on how ticked he is about it, he
>goes elsewhere. I hope he doesn't LeVeon Bell himself. AKA go
>somewhere to get more money only to end up in a somehow worse
>situation offensively AND get the average bro/lame talk show
>hate thrown on him if/when him and his new team are less
>successful than him and his prior run in Baltimore.

I could definitely see the LeVeon Bell thing.

>If the Ravens weren't dead set on giving him WRs who kinda
>obviously aren't good, my take would be for him to get as much
>money in Baltimore as he can, stay, and at least keep being
>competitive.

I feel like B-more's offer will be smaller this offseason, he may end up wishing he'd taken some of those bigger offers that they gave him earlier.

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and at some point he is just going to have to accept that.

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but I think one this is abundantly clear...God bless him, but the "Huntley can do the same thing" contingency got deaded.

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But with Huntley if they get to 12 it's a bonus.

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of the season again?

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"not likely" to play Sunday.

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He doesnt fit the normal criteria for a bust. But if you base it on hype and draft number, dude has been a "maybe one day we'll see it" his entire career. He played opposite JJ Watt and Myle Garrett and still never lived up to the hype or hit double digit sacks. He was supposed to be what Micah Parsons and Myles Garrett actually are.

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>He doesnt fit the normal criteria for a bust. But if you base
>it on hype and draft number, dude has been a "maybe one day
>we'll see it" his entire career. He played opposite JJ Watt
>and Myle Garrett and still never lived up to the hype or hit
>double digit sacks. He was supposed to be what Micah Parsons
>and Myles Garrett actually are.

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https://sports.yahoo.com/jadeveon-clowney-is-95-sure-he-wont-sign-with-browns-again-after-myles-garrett-issues-213416687.html

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as far as people talking about "nobody cares now!", umm yes they do...

https://www.si.com/nfl/bengals/allbengals-insiders-plus/joe-mixon-on-proposed-playoff-changes-we-not-following-the-rules-no-more

https://sports.yahoo.com/bengals-zac-taylor-hits-nfl-180633305.html

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Fair enough, but given the circumstances that lead to this, not a great look for the Bengals org. They’d have my sympathy if the game was cancelled due to extreme weather or COVID protocols or something like that.

>Fair enough, but given the circumstances that lead to this,
>not a great look for the Bengals org. They’d have my
>sympathy if the game was cancelled due to extreme weather or
>COVID protocols or something like that.

if the Chiefs win out you think they want to play to AFC championship at a "neutral site"?

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>if the Chiefs win out you think they want to play to AFC
>championship at a "neutral site"?

Probably not. But there’s a difference between what people want and what they complain about publicly. I thought, maybe naively so, that the Bengals would keep any complaints in-house, given the circumstances that led to the game cancellation. They didn’t, and I think it’s a bad look.

-The Knicks’ coaching search still includes a lone frontrunner, Kurt Rambis, whose qualifications for the position include a strong relationship with Jackson and a willingness to take the job.

these are people with their careers on the line

either cancel the season and we can do a prayer circle instead of the playoffs, or continue under the rules that were in place when he collapsed

why should anyone need to tiptoe around that?

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE

kumbaya and be good with whatever hand is dealt.

I dont' know a perfect or better solution per se, but lets not act like players/teams are going be like 'they don't carre'

-The Knicks’ coaching search still includes a lone frontrunner, Kurt Rambis, whose qualifications for the position include a strong relationship with Jackson and a willingness to take the job.

by Mike Glennon. Mike Glennon.

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..please don't remind me about the years Tampa wasted with that dude.


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>..please don't remind me about the years Tampa wasted with
>that dude.
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>..and miles to go before i sleep...

I was at the Rams' final home game, in St. Louis. A Thursday Night Football matchup that saw them defeat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers...quarterbacked by one, Mike Glennon. His neck is even longer in person, lol.

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>by Mike Glennon. Mike Glennon.

I talk about this all the time offline. There are not 32 'good' NFL QBs.

So once you start having to get backups, 3rd string, practice squad, and/or off the couch folks, your results are gonna vary like crazy. We gotta think, the Colts were just holding onto random ass Nick Foles!

>>by Mike Glennon. Mike Glennon.
>
>I talk about this all the time offline. There are not 32
>'good' NFL QBs.
>
>So once you start having to get backups, 3rd string, practice
>squad, and/or off the couch folks, your results are gonna vary
>like crazy. We gotta think, the Colts were just holding onto
>random ass Nick Foles!

its still interesting to me who gets those backup jobs and who doesn't

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-The Knicks’ coaching search still includes a lone frontrunner, Kurt Rambis, whose qualifications for the position include a strong relationship with Jackson and a willingness to take the job.

https://youtu.be/DpxU3nwjsaU

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What was the video about?

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TMZ still has it. Basically, it’s Shannon returning on Wednesday after taking the show off the day after the Damar Hamlin injury.

https://www.tmz.com/watch/2023-01-04-010423-shannon-sharpe-1539903-047/

...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

>Basically, it’s Shannon returning on
>Wednesday after taking the show off the day after the Damar
>Hamlin injury.

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