Well, we don’t know for sure if that’s accurate reporting. Most everything we heard came second or third hand from family members. At least that’s my impression. I haven’t been following it that closely.
Well I don’t think it’s 100% either. It’s lower. Significantly lower? Depends on how we define significantly.
I think they are just now getting to assess his lungs with the breathing tube removed.
Do they keep people more than semi conscious with breathing tubes? When I woke up with one all I wanted to do was rip it out. I couldn’t imagine being conscious with one in there.
If I were betting I’d make a bet on him not playing again at 10-1. At 5-1 I probably wouldn’t.
Coach not happy about the proposal. But it’s the Bengals and they’re used to getting fucked by the NFL, I guess.
https://twitter.com/pauldehnerjr/status/1611421112856088576?s=20&t=SvZJPhGJn4uJVLnawFxPog
Bengals my favorite afc team, and they are potentially getting screwed but there are no perfect solutions given the real world constraints on human bodies playing football.
We can assess your lungs with the breathing tube in, in fact we do it pretty much daily unless you are super sick. It’s not perfect of course, but the metrics we use for removing the tube are pretty accurate. Some people do tolerate being awake with a breathing tube in. If he was actually writing questions down he was very awake and alert.
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too soon for this I think, he’s got a decent chance it seems but he’s got to want to first and then the orgs have to be okay with that, and he has to be fully healthy enough to do so at that level, a few orgs would struggle with putting him out there at all (ie, buffalo or cincy since they all saw that live, pit held clark out of @denver games even though he was cleared by doctors, I know an org said no we’re just gonna play this safe with players, who would’ve thought that was ever a thing)
I think he is definitely going to want to play. And it’s very likely there will not be a good medical reason to prevent him. The big stumbling block is going to be that no team is going to want to put him out there and deal with the shit storm if something happens again, no matter how unlikely. He isn’t peak Godgers. They would risk a shitstorm for that.
Just changing the rules when there was already a rule for this is lolbad.
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fucking awful.
https://twitter.com/joe_mainmixon/status/1611212660271374336?s=46&t=t70Rd4fnAYqxgY3hVVuWUw
also, notice the bills sure ain’t offering to forfeit anymore. 
pretty sure i’ve already decided they’re my new least favorite team. 100% especially if they end up playing cincinnati in the divisional round in buffalo. the whole “what? we don’t make up the rules 
” bullshit ain’t cute. the bengals did literally everything right by them, the bills know damn well they’re getting over and karma’s gonna get them.
i’m sure people are gonna be pulling for the bills, but seeing how dude is gonna be fine, hiding behind his hospital bed to get what you want is ugly af.
cincy’s coach said it perfectly, they’re in a position to have to fight for a coin flip which has no positive outcome for them, just a negative one. i’m no friend of the bengals, but that’s messed up. and i sincerely, truly will be rooting for josh allen to get a high ankle sprain against the patriots.
What are you talking about, Chiefs got the best deal by far here. They are the only team that would take this deal over restarting the game at 7-3. Not only that, there is 0 way the Bills were directly involved in making this decision more than any other team.
My give Cincy the win proposal was definitely better than this.
However, I didn’t realize that the NFL already had a rule in place on this. If there is a pre-existing rule, they should have just gone with that.
I think Chiefs broke even. I really think Bills were gonna lose. If that happens, Chefs get top seed and homefield. Chefs are trading homefield in AFCCG for not having to worry about if Bills were going to come back and win vs Cin if the game continued. Seems pretty close to breakeven to me, but I admit that it depends on what you thought was going to happen in the canceled game. I was probably a lot more confident in Cincinnati winning that than most.
That’s the issue with any idea the Bills benefited is assuming they lost as you said. Their equity in that game was much, much more valuable than this deal, and it’s not even close. The 1 seed and bye is much more important than anything else.
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What was their in game at that equity at that point? I read it was only 30%. What do have it at?
Yeah I’ve read it was in the mid 30s from various places
Having to play the Bengals and the Chiefs both away 70% of the time or only the victor 30% of the time at home and a bye is better than this deal where they get both 100% of the time with no bye and a coinfliparama for home field.
If you’re the Bills and your options are
- 30% chance to beat Cincy, and get 1 seed, but if you lose you get the 3 seed
- Take 2 seed and play AFCCG on neutral site
Those don’t seem that unequal to me.
In a vacuum yes, but the 4th best team in the AFC sucks and they get the only bye, so the 1 seed is even more valuable this year. I would like to find a model that explains SB% changes from the deal vs current game state.
The MNF No Contest | sethburn this looks good
“a no contest is literally better than a Bengals win, which is what Kansas City was hoping for”
“The main takeaway here is that a no contest hurts both Buffalo and Cincinnati, and helps Kansas City. This is mitigated by the neutral field AFCCG proposal, but only slightly. The truth is the chance at the bye, and easier overall matchups are much more important.”
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