Mango

103...big spender! We looked into it this week. We couldn’t find enough friends to get to the 6 person group that was in our price point. We have a price point for the SB but we should have looked about 3 weeks ago. It’s about double that at the moment. Long and short, if anybody knows anybody, well take some Super Bowl tickets. Ha

So I have been looking for clarification on that, but have not seen it anywhere. Were you able to dig that up? With any other injury that is the way they would do it. Nobody would load you up with 3 different stressors and hope for the best the next day. So hoping they wouldn't do that with a players noggin. But I get the sense that they might run through multiple stages per day. Especially since the neurologist does not come in until stage 5. I am 99.999% sure he is playing, and that actually cures most of my anxiety about this game. Just get rid of the unknown. Just about every sportsbook streamlined their spread to KC -3 today. They are locking in that Mahomes is playing. Yesterday you could place a bet anywhere from Buffalo -2.5 to KC -3.5.

I was about 95% Mahomes would play because NFL (not actual health). But yesterday the spread was all over the place, you could place a bet at BUF -2.5 with one sportsbook and KC -3.5 on another. Everybody is locked in at KC -3 today. I would take that and run with it and Mahomes is 99.999999% playing on Sunday.

Listen man, his mom used to work for a charity, it is legit!

But like, what if he posts pictures of donations online?

I have asked the same thing. I think you can go through multiple steps in a day. Which I honestly don't understand. Rule of thumb at the Olympic Training Center for (non head) injuries was always check back 48 hours after adding activity. So say I broke my rib (I did), and feel good enough to add running. The best gauge for soreness was day 2 not the next day. So why in hell any player (Josh included) can scramble their eggs and on Sunday, and go through a rest, aerobic work, and balance drills, 3 different steps, in a single day is absolutely wild. It doesn't make any sense. The league is literally helping to kill these guys. It is pretty infuriating.

I think part of the way they’ve made their cap work over the years is they basically have a dead year after Brees retires where they eat $10m still. But that assumed he retired after his contract was up. I don’t know what happens when he retires early.

Stretches, I would do them at my desk at work a couple times per day. It still took me a few months to get full mobility back. But strength took a lot of time after that.

Sorry, I was talking about the daily practice report.

The injury report will let us know. He can’t just practice in 48 hours and then secretly be the starter on Sunday.

This game is a Vegas nightmare. I was looking around today, I’ve seen everything from Buffalo -2.5 to +3 and everything in between. You can basically play whatever spread you want, just need to pick the right bookie.

Let’s just say Thanksgiving is awkward now.

I would assume that would be determined by passing through concussion protocol quickly. Make no mistake 5 days is absolutely FLYING through concussion protocol. You nor I could get a doctor to clear us to play bar league kickball in 5 days let alone play in the NFL if we even so much as hinted at a concussion. There is nothing physiologically gifted about NFL players that allows their brain to heal at some rapid pace compared to soccer, hockey, rugby, etc. NFL concussion protocol is an absolute joke and a very real danger to the health of all of its players. I say that knowing that Josh cleared protocols in a week as well. That shouldn’t be allowed. But this isn’t a merry go round, you can’t just enter or exit when it feels like it doesn’t fit. The only exit is passing protocol.

Assuming that Mahomes can only pass one stage at a time/per day, Mahomes can’t practice until Friday. There is no “normal” for the Chiefs this week.

I pinched my ulnar nerve sleeping once. I lost almost complete use of my entire right hand, and totally lost all feeling and motor skills in my middle, ring, and pinky finger. It took months to get it all back. Which was especially frustrating as a righty.

We keep reading about average time for players 19 days, and 7 days for QBs (which is absolutely wild btw). But the NFL does not give any actual time table for the protocols, which is both not surprising and surprising at the same time. All the league says is you have to run through each step and can't skip any steps. You would think that given the 5 step process, any step should come no sooner than 24 hours, right? Or could a player clear phase 2 and 3 on the same day? When I lived at the Olympic Training Center rule of thumb was basically to take inventory two days later after adding activity. So when I broke my rib, I biked a lot and did all my core work. But when I added running, I would go run and it was OK to be a little sore that day or the next, but it was day 2 post activity that was important. You had to be 100% on day 2. That would indicate that any soreness was something that my body was not overcoming with standard rest, ice, and some time on the physio table. It was an actual set back and you would have to shut back down for a bit.

At the risk of diving much too far down the rabbit hole...and also being wrong... I think that your GP has a larger legal and ethical responsibility to the overall well being of the patient than a consultant does (outside of an actual hospital setting). So yes, if Mahomes GP came out and said he is healthy enough to play there would be ample weight behind that, because the GP is beholden to Mahomes actual well being. But no GP would ever come out and say that their patient is OK to play 7 days post concussion, because they aren't. There is a reason that there are lots of waivers involved. The seal of approval to come back post concussion and play in the NFL is basically "well you probably wouldn't die on the field".

I took off this upcoming Monday and SB Monday 2 months ago just in case.

Mahomes will play. Remember Tom Savage basically had a seizure on the field...in front of a ref...then came back into the game before being pulled... That is the NFL concussion protocol at work. Also, guys like Tim Connolly or Sydney Crosby miss months and months at a time with concussions. Has there ever been an NFL player who have missed 2 months of play due to concussion? It is performative. Or at best it is like going to the ER with chest pains. Run a bunch of tests, tell you to go home, rest, get with your GP,see a specialist, and you are not in any immediate danger of dying. But that isn't a clean bill of health by any stretch.

I bang on the seat in front of me in a full stadium all the time.

Andy Reid just said Mahomes just had the wind knocked out of him. I wouldn’t be so quick to assume coach is going to be so altruistic.

As much as I would like a home AFCCG, I don’t love us against the power run. So I’ll take a Mahomesless Chiefs on the road.

Even if the Chiefs hold on and he does, he won’t practice until like Thursday at the earliest.

What I love most about this play is that it’s Lamars first ever red zone pick!

Well shirt. Between Herbert and 2 Buffalo guys, it would be like the Bills 2.0 down there