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Every incident is different. No two are the same. I don’t think that truism is relevant to the post you quoted.. The relevant difference, instead, lies in the expectations each of us have in terms of dealing with overwhelming adversity and carrying on. I expect a team of adult professionals to perform. I composed that sentence deliberately to be unequivocal and not leave room for the lowering of expectations in light of obstacle or tragedy. I can do this while at the same time feeling the overwhelming human emotions cited to lower expectations in light of adversity. There are few moments in our long lives where being a human being is more rewarding than when we are pressing on, or watching others do the same. birth to death, this is a struggle. Some are greater than others. Here’s to the people who say “I played a week later.” Doing so honors Hamlin and doesn’t disrespect him.

The internet. Any absurd thought gets examined and debated. Virtue signalers stake out positions with flimsy reasoning and insult one another. Once in a lifetime tragic event. Prayers and well wishes. Sincere attention and consideration of what can be done better, next time. The world doesn’t stop. There was a time when teams dedicated extraordinary effort to the Hamlins of the world. I expect the Bills to do the same. I’d be disappointed if they don’t.

Amen, Brother .. grateful for your leadership.

Yeah, true. But it’s easier and perversely fun to just throw stones with an iPad while sitting on the sofa.

I would love to see the decisions those criticizing the league would have made, and the basis for those decisions, at the point in time that the league called for a five minute re-start. This unfolded minute by minute before our eyes with dozens of decision makers evaluating incomplete information. Well handled, all around, as the situation unfolded in my view. We saw a tragedy and then watched a group of people respond as fact after confirmation after contradiction unfolded. Shame on the hindsight possessing critics calling out the league. Leadership comes with burdens.

I have no problem with any player, team, announcer, social media poster or league representative for any statement they’ve made about Hamlin, his injury, or the implications for the business. This has been remarkably balanced with the emphasis on the important things in life. I’ve heard nothing that wasn’t sympathetic, empathetic, sensitive or rational. Life’s funny. There’s not a playbook for everything.

Vegas doesn’t bet. It takes bets. Vegas matches its book and cares not how you bet. If the line’s moving as you report, it’s because bettors are selecting the Bills.

Again, no disrespect. He leads the team in tackles and is a missed game adjustment from being among league leaders. His tackling percentage is top of the top. He covers acres. This is why I bring up role understanding when I read “Edmunds disappears” or “doesn’t make the play when the ball carrier enters his area.” There are those who think Kuechly was on a Hall of Fame trajectory. Edmunds doesn’t stun running backs and stand over them like Dick Butkus. He covers more field effectively, tackles and gives more options to teammates to thrive than nearly any other LB playing. Sign him.

All due respect to you, but I think I’d describe your view as “Edmunds doesn’t do what you want to see him do because he’s busy doing what Frazier wants him to do.” I’m an old school, splash play, big hit, linebacker fan with memories back to Ray Nitschke. Edmunds does something completely different and the rest of the defenders have options they’d not have if he wasn’t covering acres playing the pass and the run, sideline to sideline, from the line of scrimmage with short and intermediate drops. I see the board split not as pro or con Edmunds, but as understand or not his role. IMHO …. respectfully.

* Requires a five game winning streak.

I’ve done it twice. I won’t say they were painless, but there was surprisingly little pain when the tears happened. There’s soreness and swelling after, especially if cartridge is torn. OId man trivia, Dr. Marzo did my first surgery in the early 1990s. Bills physician, surgeon at the time. Most memorable physical impression … both times my brain believed my knee was “unraveling” because things where going in directions they shouldn’t. Both times I felt an immediate “snap back” into place. Think of those holiday toys where you press the bottom of a base piece and the elf, or santa, or reindeer collapses, and snaps back to upright. That’s my ACL history.

But the conspiracy is about revenue, isn’t it? TV markets? Not first or second place. Who cares. The bad actors are money guys, correct? That’s what i’ve been told … or, can you simply claim conspiracy with no evidence, and then create a limitless number of circumstances to support the most recent allegation? I think they gave it to Cincinnati because they’re PETA members who want to bring attention to tigers

But, if they handed it to New England, next week’s Pats v. Fins game would have more meaning. In bigger tv markets. How do you square that calculus in conspiracyville?

That’s the most impressive evidence that Frazier did stop him. You think Fields just woke up today and said “you know, rushing as a QB has been the most important part of my game since Pop Warner, but I’m just not going to do it, today.”

Thank you for your commitment to multiple astute grasp of the obvious posts that provide no insight and respond to no post asserting the contrary. No one’s ever said turning the ball over repeatedly is a winning strategy. Critical thinking error: People are glad their team won despite dozens of plays that could have been better EQUALS people believe bad play is a winning strategy. You created an argument no one made and continue to argue against it.

Until the two minute warning … some later than that.

Thirty five points in frigid wind. Twenty two point lead. Road game requiring early travel. All the chicken little posts …

Burrows is as bad as Allen. He just threw a pass to a receiver who subsequently fumbled, too.

Burrows just threw a pick six, his second interception. The NFL is a grind.

Chip shot in lousy weather. It’s in the books.

Yes. I suggested it might be and that I’d have taken the certain points. However, I had risk and probability in inclement weather explained to me. What you saw, today, was an optical illusion. 7 - 7.

The Bears have had protective gear and known how to find heat for years.

Josh Allen makes that tackle. Jim Kelly drops him.

If you’re robbing a bank, you are robbing people.

Your condescension aside, and with no comment on the theoretical world you constructed to critique mine, any decision is made in all of our theoretical worlds. McD made a choice in his theoretical world. That’s the topic. I’m not sure I’m correct, but i’d like to see the number of TDs in thirty seconds vs chip shots in snow globes. We could name the combinations and permutations of 22 players at a time slipping. Everyone has their favorite risk and uses that as evidence. None can be eliminated. I’ll take the points in hand (100%, and the only inarguable certainty in this mess of a debate) and defend. Sitting in front of a television watching 300 pound men pawing at plastic grass trying to move slippery snow made the points on the board very valuable to me. You can disagree.