Mango

You might be right. I would agree McD runs a tight and detailed ship, so I can’t imagine there is a “no rules” portion for his Covid-QB. It’s just a dumb thing to say. I am sure there is more color to it than what he is saying. But given the cases recently across the league and that they are playing the Tennessee Covids, it’s just terrible optics.

I thought this was a bad quote from him. Dangerous to say "there's no rules or anything" in regards to COVID protocol. For a guy who is spending so much time with a PR guy, he really is not picking up much is he?

That is what I was implying. I was agreeing with your point. Good team losing more than 4-ish games per year has about the same win percentage after a loss as they do on any other Sunday.

That is fair. Just tried looking up some numbers on it, and most what I found was Pats specific. But I would assume that is the same for a team who wins 12ish games in a season. Pats Brady/BB have only a slightly higher win % after a loss as they do .776 vs. .766.

Our perception doesn't matter. If the team is feeling like they are being persecuted (whether real or perceived) is then the emotions are real for them. It is a classic use of the Thomas Theorem, loosely quotes as, "If men define a situation as real, they are real in their consequences". Fans, media, opponents, etc. feeling/emotions are irrelevant. The Bills may very well be jacked up after feeling like they have been jerked around, but these are mutually exclusive and can both be true at the same time. The Bills could also be flat from feeling like they could not focus on anything this week.

I don't think this is so crazy/funny or offensive as some people have taken it. The team is trying to find an edge, as teams do in any situation, and they will look for more when their backs are against the wall. If it works for them, good for them.

Not that I think the Bills need an injury to win, but I do think injuries change some things. We will see what happens with Osemele and Watkins.

As the season went on I had a good feeling about the Bills being competitive in this game. At first when the Raiders beat the Chiefs, I was psyched because it means we had a better chance than we did a week or two ago. Then I sat with it and realized that good teams rarely lose twice in a row. I think the Chiefs losing this week makes the next one a bit less probable. ...Or maybe I just need to shake of the 2000's from my memory.

I will be curious of the results of this. Titans are a terrible test subject since there is no control and everything is a variable. But if the Bills like the way it has turned out over the course of the Titans and KC game I am curious if it becomes part of the tool bag in prepping for Jets/Pats, 49er/Steelers, etc. You see this in some other sports...kind of. You may take the start of practice for 15 minutes, to work on something really explosive, because it is physiologically accurate. It might make sense to open practice with a single key concept for a game in 2 weeks and start getting the body used to it. Then spend the other 85% of practice prepping the current week. I could see it with mobile QB's. Every day you work on a key concept to help contain your upcoming mobile QB opponent. Mahomes, Lamar, Cam, Murray, etc. All on the schedule this year. All will require something a little different, but it is still at the base of the start of every practice. Containing a mobile QB. Just spit balling here.

God, I hope we don’t keep kicking this Titans can down the road. I think that is a trash decision. I am really glad they pushed KC back and locked it in. I think we all needed that.

For the 1000th time, none of this matters if they allowed close contacts into the building yesterday.

The Titans are like Africa with Ebola in the 90’s, and the NFL is over here trying to convince us to go on a Safari.

I never thought I would say this, but you know who’s opinion I would love to hear on this...Baker Mayfield. I would imagine it something like “If you’re stupid enough to go out and practice on your own in a pandemic, you’re stupid enough to forfeit a game.”

Just throwing this out there. If they don’t play the game a team like the Bills would get a $7.5M cap break to roll over next year if they didn’t play. Seems like paying them would be net neutral on the cap.

Right. I’m on board with all of that. I’m just following through on what that would mean. -You come in close contact. Whoopsies -You quarantine, not in the facility. OK, got it. -There are 23 people with the virus. OK that’s not good - Could be 40-50+ total people banned from the facility. Woah! Based on the logistics, you can’t field a professional football team/staff. So I guess what I am really asking is, is it reasonable to believe that close contact quarantining is happening and this is a nothing burger? Or is it more reasonable to believe that the NFL/Titans are trying to power through this and any new positive is a red flag.

People were talking the Bills refusing to play earlier in the week. I put that at probably 5% before. I would change that to 20% now. I couldn’t blame them either.

You are the resident covid expert so I will refer to you here. Doesn’t that only work if people in close contact also quarantine. Which for say the patriots with a couple of cases works. But does not work at scale, at least for practicing. There’s probably another 20+ people who came in contact total. And that’s conservative at 1:1 infection to contact ratio. How do you even hold a practice missing 40-50 coaches and staff?

That only works if the expected positives are not at the facility. Which as of now there are 10+ coaches and staff and 10+ Who have tested positive. If they only made contact with 1 person each, that is a total of 40+ people not allowed in the facility. Making practice time irrelevant because there aren’t enough people to field a team for practice or a game. If they did that, they’d have to cancel the game all together, which is what they’ve avoided this whole time.

AFAIK twitter said that. The league never made a statement regarding that.

What did I mess up. Did you mean the NFL? Sounds like we are saying the same thing.

Outside of the complete stupidity to try and put the Titans on the field, the thing that drives me the most crazy here is that they are “waiting for the league to tell the FO the plan” Holy Shirts! This team has been coinstantly testing positive for 2 weeks now. There shouldn’t be a wait for a plan/instruction moment anymore. Hey Titans/Bills. If you test positive again, we are doing x.

Sorry. Typo. I meant to write Friday. I swear I thought I read they were going to try and get in Friday afternoon. Can’t dig it up. I’m probably just an idiot. Ha

Did they not go in Saturday?

They went in a Friday afternoon. I think they got their “two days of practice” in. League will try and play.

Unless he was at the facility the last two days.