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sportsgenius86 posted:There’s no solution that’s going to please everyone so I say just get creative. Will absolutely never happen but this is a good hell solution.
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Pain of Mind posted:Is there any reason why the season cannot just be two weeks longer? Add an extra bye (each team gets a bye before and after week 10?) and an extra week before playoffs, leave the week before the Superbowl if they care about hype building that much. money Edit: To be clear, its about networks not wanting extra empty weeks because of the disruption to their broadcast schedules, the NFL wants an 18 game league (for money) and is holding the extra bye as a bargaining chip.
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Jan 3, 2023 17:35
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There's only one way to solve this dilemma that ensures that A) Both teams have an equal opportunity to win and B) that the players are safe. Lawn darts.
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Jan 3, 2023 17:36
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Pain of Mind posted:Is there any reason why the season cannot just be two weeks longer? Add an extra bye (each team gets a bye before and after week 10?) and an extra week before playoffs, leave the week before the Superbowl if they care about hype building that much. There's no reason if you plan it that way (I don't know why owners are against the two bye season other than to maybe hold it over the players heads when the next CBA needs to be negotiated). The immediate issue here would be that they have not planned it that way and they don't have a lot of time to work with. Even though it makes sense to my dumb mind that they could deal with it if they really needed to there's a whole lot of moving parts, tickets already sold, possibly other events that get in the way. And the NFL doesn't exactly move fast on its feet dealing with things like that. e:fb
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The Dave posted:I would also watch Josh Allen and Joe Burrow settle the game over Mario Party fwiw Somehow this ends with the Browns in the #1 seed.
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Jan 3, 2023 17:40
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Never understood why they wouldn't want an extra bye week, it just gives one more weekend of football/ad revenue/talking head fluff. Worried about diluting the product? All of us here would drink lukewarm football out of an old boot.
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As far as I can tell the ramifications from canceling the game are: Chiefs: + Go from needing a Bills loss to controlling their own destiny Bills: - go from controlling their own destiny for the number one seed to needing to win their game and the Chiefs to lose / Control their own destiny for the two seed, would need to lose their game and for the Bengals to win to lose it. Bengals: - mathematically eliminated from the number one seed + Locked in as division winners - Go from controlling their own destiny for the two seed to needing help. Jags/Tits: Not affected Chargers: Not affected Ravens: - go from being dependent on the Bengals losing back to back home games to being eliminated from the Division Patriots: + Not affected on paper but play a very distracted Bills team in a win and in situation The rest: Not affected As far as I see it the teams most advantaged would be the Chiefs and the Patriots and the teams most disadvantaged would be the Bills and Bengals. I don't think any outcome is so extreme as to make the voiding of the game not the best outcome. Eifert Posting fucked around with this message at 17:52 on Jan 3, 2023 |
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sweet thursday posted:Never understood why they wouldn't want an extra bye week, it just gives one more weekend of football/ad revenue/talking head fluff. Worried about diluting the product? All of us here would drink lukewarm football out of an old boot. If anything the product is already too concentrated on Sunday afternoon.
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sweet thursday posted:Never understood why they wouldn't want an extra bye week, it just gives one more weekend of football/ad revenue/talking head fluff. Worried about diluting the product? All of us here would drink lukewarm football out of an old boot. The owners will never give anything willingly to the players without getting something in return.
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Jan 3, 2023 17:47
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It's such a clear win-win that the fact it hasn't happened yet means it most likely never will. The pettiness of corporate will never cease to amaze me, and I've once been on a picket line for 8 months.
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https://twitter.com/day_leap/status/1610166318791000064?s=46&t=t9POAtPl1Q3-1IibK48J1Q Lots of good takes today.
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that's a pretty pro-level troll right there
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Pats fans looking at a distracted Bills team all  to get into the playoffs, just to get trounced by the Bills again a week later.
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Brrrmph posted:https://twitter.com/day_leap/status/1610166318791000064?s=46&t=t9POAtPl1Q3-1IibK48J1Q Imagine how much better off we would all be if everybody just ignored idiots like that seeking attention instead of just reposting it everywhere.
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Jan 3, 2023 18:12
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Yeah I don't think we need to amplify takes from a nobody on Twitter with less than 100 followers
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Jan 3, 2023 18:13
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The best solution is that Joe Burrow and Josh Allen meet at the 50 yard line, both in full gear, and play a best 2 out of 3 of rock paper scissors for the win. Both teams get to stand behind their QB and taunt as much as they want to. The game goes in the record books as a 1-0 win.
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ghosthorse posted:The best solution is that Joe Burrow and Josh Allen meet at the 50 yard line, both in full gear, and play a best 2 out of 3 of rock paper scissors for the win. Both teams get to stand behind their QB and taunt as much as they want to. The game goes in the record books as a 1-0 win. I like this because it would have the side effect of achieving an inimitable Scorigami
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Eifert Posting posted:As far as I see it the teams most advantaged would be the Chiefs and the Patriots and the teams most disadvantaged would be the Bills and Bengals. I don't think any outcome is so extreme as to make the voiding of the game not the best outcome.
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Jan 3, 2023 18:24
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Eifert Posting posted:Imagine how much better off we would all be if everybody just ignored idiots like that seeking attention instead of just reposting it everywhere.
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haljordan posted:Yeah I don't think we need to amplify takes from a nobody on Twitter with less than 100 followers Leave me out of this.
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Jan 3, 2023 18:31
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Eifert Posting posted:Ravens: Implied in my post in the GDT this offers a perfect win-win solution, declare the Ravens the winners of the NFC South and kick out the Bucs. No one wants to see Tom Brady in another loving playoff.
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Jan 3, 2023 18:32
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Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:Leave me out of this. Friend, for just $8 a month, you can be somebody on Twitter. Hell, you can be anybody on Twitter.
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Jan 3, 2023 18:39
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Tayter Swift posted:Implied in my post in the GDT this offers a perfect win-win solution, declare the Ravens the winners of the NFC South and kick out the Bucs. No one wants to see Tom Brady in another loving playoff. This lovely Ravens team would probably make it to the NFC championship game. Gross.
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Eifert Posting posted:Imagine how much better off we would all be if everybody just ignored idiots like that seeking attention instead of just reposting it everywhere. Seriously. This looks like something you had to actively try and seek out just to repost a lovely take, and why would you put yourself through that kind of toxic sludge in the first place?
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Manoueverable posted:Seriously. This looks like something you had to actively try and seek out just to repost a lovely take, and why would you put yourself through that kind of toxic sludge in the first place? There's a whole subforum of miserable people devoted to it. They're just bringing that same energy here where it's not welcome. We move on
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Brrrmph posted:https://twitter.com/day_leap/status/1610166318791000064?s=46&t=t9POAtPl1Q3-1IibK48J1Q To the player that can fake a collapse, make medical professionals not be able to read a pulse, and take a brutal chest thrashing from CPR, all to stop a losing game, I say more power to them.
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Grant both teams a W. It guarantees three matchups for Week 18 are critical to the 1 seed including the KC Raiders one in Saturday "primetime" and also important to wild card seeding. If KC loses and Bills + Bengals both win grant the 1 seed to the Bills if the tiebreakers dont naturally do that. This should have more business incentive reasons for the NFL to do to hype up the final week and the only team it really screws over is the Ravens but honestly it's also a free pass to rest Lamar another week rather than try to rush him to win the division plus sets up a potential rematch for a "statement game". Seems like the best set of tradeoffs to make off hand
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https://twitter.com/TomPelissero/status/1610342116365946881
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https://twitter.com/NFLprguy/status/1610342115095056384 No new news
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If they’re not resuming the game this week, then it’s clearly not going to happen.
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Eifert Posting posted:This lovely Ravens team would probably make it to the NFC championship game. Gross. The lovely Ravens team that totally handled the Bengals, or are you assuming Lamar stays out for the playoffs?
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The Puppy Bowl posted:The lovely Ravens team that totally handled the Bengals It was 17 to 19 and ended on a game winning field goal.
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Aye. And they were going to win by a dominating 4 points before all this sad stuff happened.
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If the NFL is smart at all they'll wait until after week 18 to make a call. In a lot of scenarios the only thing that changes if they reschedule is Buffalo and Cincinnati potentially flip places for the divisional home game. I doubt either team would particularly want to reschedule a game and impact their schedule just for that.
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idk i think they need to make a firm call asap so it's not hanging over the entire league as an unanswered question for a week or more
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I have a hard time believing they won't have an answer by tomorrow.
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Canceling is the easiest thing and the statement today feels like a prelude to that.
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Eifert Posting posted:If the NFL is smart at all they'll wait until after week 18 to make a call. In a lot of scenarios the only thing that changes if they reschedule is Buffalo and Cincinnati potentially flip places for the divisional home game. I doubt either team would particularly want to reschedule a game and impact their schedule just for that. That seems like the worst thing to do because you'll probably end up in a situation where who gets in/out depends on the choice. Cancelling outright and using win percentages for determining playoff clinching/seeding seems like the best approach to me.
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feeling hungry to watch some cincinnati bengals football next week on GAME NOT YET SCHEDULED
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Honest question - if Hamlin had collapsed in the second half would that qualify as enough game to be played to be called final?
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