NFL Football

[J Rorick]

And Sunday brought several more, including the "Hail Moron" pass that decided the Raiders-Patriots game.

[scottmitchell74]

Sports are so random:

Nick Foles had more interceptions last night (3) than he had in all of 2013 (2) when he had the then Third Highest passer rating ever.

[jazzcyclist]

Mac Jones has quickly developed a reputation as a dirty player, an unlikely distraction for a quarterback.

[Bruce Kritzler]

Tua now has his 3rd concussion of the season. Bet he is miraculously cleared by Sunday.

[DET59]

Devon Allen questions:

1). With the Eagles having a pretty commanding lead, any chance Allen will be brought up from practice squad?

2) With so many roster rules changes during covid/post covid I cant figure out playoffs. Do rosters expand for post season?

[jazzcyclist]

Tua now has his 3rd concussion of the season. Bet he is miraculously cleared by Sunday.

It's my understanding that he self-reported this concussion so I'm glad to see he's looking out for himself and not leaving it up to team doctors.

[scottmitchell74]

I think the Bills-Bengals game should have been played /finished.

Yes, that was scary. But:

The NFL is a Billions of dollars business. A cutthroat business.

Walmart
Amazon
Wells Fargo
Tyson
Union Pacific
Your Job most likely
Your municipal services

Almost any other possible business continues the same day/hour even if an employee is injured or killed accidentally.

Tens of Thousands of fans took vacation leave and spent thousands of dollars. Now what?

It wasn't a weather event "act of God" scenario. It was a freak accident.

I've thought about this since it happened...thought about his buddies/co workers. I know what they're going through. Most of us have long enough careers in whatever field to know this experience, yet we must continue.

It's not "just a game." Hasn't been that for a Century now. It's a massive multi-layered business.

It is a business and Goodell made another in a long series of blunders on his part.

[gh]

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It is a business and Goodell made another in a long series of blunders on his part.

I've read that the players made the call, not the league.

[J Rorick]

I think the Bills-Bengals game should have been played /finished.

Yes, that was scary. But:

The NFL is a Billions of dollars business. A cutthroat business.

It is a business and Goodell made another in a long series of blunders on his part.

He made his decision because it is a billion-dollar business. In today's atmosphere, he would have created a PR nightmare by just finishing the game. If Hamlin had died on top of that, it would have become a firestorm.

[J Rorick]

I've read that the players made the call, not the league.

Well, the league office acceded to the players' wishes. As I said above, it would have been a PR nightmare if the league had made them finish if a sizable number of players didn't want to. And a player mutiny would have been even worse for the league.

Scott is just upset because the Bengals were adversely affected. Don't worry - Cincy is still gonna win the Super Bowl.

[NotDutra5]

The league should have restarted the game from the spot Hamlin dropped. The referee should have signaled for the 1st down and away we go.

....or maybe not.

There was no way that game was going to be finished.

[Davidokun]

A first-hand report on the decision-making process from Bengals HC Zac Taylor:

Taylor said as both teams were trying to process the situation on their own sidelines after Hamlin left the field, he decided to speak with Bills coach Sean McDermott and the officials and discuss a next plan of action.

"When I got over there, the first thing [McDermott] said was, 'I need to be at the hospital with Damar and I shouldn't be coaching this game,' " Taylor said Wednesday. "That, to me, provides all the clarity. 'Unprecedented' is the word that gets thrown out a lot about this situation because that's what it is, but in that moment, he really showed who he was, that all his focus was on Damar and being there for him and being there for his family at the hospital. And at that point, I think everything trended in the direction that it needed to trend. The right decisions were made there.

"I really felt Sean McDermott led in that moment for his players. He was there for his players, he processed it the right way, which was incredibly difficult and really helped us get to the solution that we needed to get to."

Taylor added that he did not feel "any directive" that players needed to start warming up to return to play before the game was suspended and eventually postponed.

"It was just, let's particularly give Buffalo space to process as a team because they had not done that. They had just been there for Damar," Taylor said. "... There was no push for anything to happen. It was just, let's let these moments play out and see what the next step is as people get a chance to get their minds right. And ultimately, that's what led to the decision there."

Source: Bengals' Zac Taylor praises Bills' Sean McDermott, medical personnel in first comments since Monday

[TN1965]

Flashback from 1986.

Flo Hyman - Wikipedia

On January 24, 1986, Hyman collapsed while sitting on the sidelines after being substituted out in a game against Hitachi in Matsue City. She told her team to keep fighting, then moments later slid to the floor. She was pronounced dead at 9:36 that evening.

[TN1965]

Why the NFL will barely lose any money from canceling the Bills-Bengals game | CNN Business

The NFL’s decision not to resume or replay Monday’s Bills-Bengals game, which was halted after Buffalo safety Damar Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest, won’t be particularly costly the world’s richest sports league.

[jazzcyclist]

I think the Bills-Bengals game should have been played /finished.

Yes, that was scary. But:

The NFL is a Billions of dollars business. A cutthroat business.

Walmart
Amazon
Wells Fargo
Tyson
Union Pacific
Your Job most likely
Your municipal services

Almost any other possible business continues the same day/hour even if an employee is injured or killed accidentally.

Tens of Thousands of fans took vacation leave and spent thousands of dollars. Now what?

It wasn't a weather event "act of God" scenario. It was a freak accident.

I've thought about this since it happened...thought about his buddies/co workers. I know what they're going through. Most of us have long enough careers in whatever field to know this experience, yet we must continue.

It's not "just a game." Hasn't been that for a Century now. It's a massive multi-layered business.

It is a business and Goodell made another in a long series of blunders on his part.

We found out on March 13, 2020 which businesses were deemed essential and which ones weren't. People like you who worked in essential businesses had to continue to report to work throughout the pandemic and people employed in non-essential businesses stayed home. Sports and other entertainment worldwide shut down on March 13, 2020 just like all sorts of other non-essential businesses. Generally speaking, essential businesses continue to operate uninterrupted after work-place fatalities while non-essential businesses often shut down.

Also, consider the reaction of a locally owned, mom-and-pop hardware store to a workplace fatality to the reaction of Home Depot.