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I don't mean this to sound callous but the world can't stop because this happened. Millions of people are affected in ways from hugely important (family, teammates) to important (NFL employees, travel agencies and lodging) to trivial (you need 9 points from Allen for a championship). All best wishes and prayers to Damar Hamlin but there is absolutely nothing anyone outside that hospital can do for him right now. People need to do what humans have done since the dawn of the species; life will go on. So then. If the game isn't completed, no team in the AFC should earn a bye. Add one wild card team. Of course KC likely gets home field again without actually earning it. If the NFL wanted anything else then they don't throw that flag on Sutton. Fantasy managers, you're all screwed, unless the stats from next week's games are used or unless you're allowed to replace from the bench ex-post facto. There's no fair solution there either.

Worked at ESPN, is my guess. That tweet # ended with the digits '666'. Hmm.

We knew that already, but specifically, what is it this time? I'm apparently not on that channel.

This might be NSFW but the similarity in their reaction is eerie.

This actually reminds me more of the Chris Pronger incident where he took a shot to the chest that stopped his heart, tracks with Higgins helmet to the chest. The silver lining is that, once restarted, the heart is usually fine and Pronger went on to play a long time after the incident even.

I was thinking about that and Aaron Williams and even Shazier, the difference being none of those guy were down on the field with no breathing and no heartbeat which is the only reason you'd be getting CPR. All those games continued. This is an order of magnitude beyond those situations.

I repeat myself when under stress I repeat myself when under stress

Heart monitor says 90bpm, but we haven't hit McDermott's first bad challenge yet.

Joe Buck dressed up for the event.

I dunno man. If the Bills are up 31-3 at the half, I'll still be nervous.

Rex lone wolf picking the Bills, the rest of the world going Bengals.

I picked the wrong day to order vodka from Grubhub.

Yeah I probably do. Watched too much hockey in years gone by apparently.

Doug Crossman? That Doug Crossman? It would explain some things about Special Teams.

it's not just like the old Patriots where they commit penalties all over the field and never get called, the Chiefs also get calls against the other team that aren't actually committed. The NFL treats the Chiefs like Lil Bessie treats Levon Helm.

Manuel had physical talent. He could throw the JA17 patented deep over 25 yards downfield outside the numbers. The problem was he could only do it in preseason against basic defenses. He got confused and rattled awfully easily, just couldn't make the reads or process the game fast enough.

Friggin Lonnie.

The Athletic (subscribe today, become an Athletic Supporter!) had some ludicrous explanation that KC should be #1 in power rankings because they'd be the #1 seed if the Bills don't win out. Sounds like they've already got Monday Night chalked up for the Bengals.

Not my usual cup of scream but actually written about the original blizzard 1-9-7-7.

I think it's just who they are. I mean, it did make it a much more makeable 25-yard field goal attempt rather than a 28-yarder. Or heaven forbid a 35-yarder if you get sacked there.

Another 3rd-and-crucial checkdown.

This is the other thing about "why isn't Herbert doing better than he looks like he should be doing" is, he constantly checks down on 3rd-and-need-it. He'll get it on 4th down a lot though.

Now are you ready to turn Derwood into a newt?

That's a fine hit... for 1979. In 2022, that's just gonna be a significant fine. Maybe even suspension.

That looked an awful lot like a first down for the Colts.