SageAgainstTheMachine

If you really believe that the NFL tells referees who to make calls against and that nobody has ever leaked this I’ve got a staged moon landing to sell you.

Damn, another season where all the away games are on the road.

Damn we’re going with full on conspiracy theory mode right now on this board, huh?

Don’t sweat this game y’all. The Raiders weren’t ever going to win. Bills either capture lightning in a bottle in the postseason or they don’t.

Why is LV not using timeouts here? McDaniels is clueless.

Honestly I can't stand motivational speaker schtick. They aren't actual leaders, they're people who learn rhetoric and get paid to talk at corporate retreats. People raising money for uninsured dying relatives, people being shot execution style? Those are grave symptoms of social disease, not a "dog fight".

The calendar is going to flip a couple times and we'll be on to the Patriots and we'll think of Damar. Then it'll flip a few more times and it will be the first round of the playoffs and we'll think of Damar. And then more time will pass and we'll think of him less and less because time does its thing. A few years from now we'll say "Oh man, remember when..." But it's important to keep little nuggets of wisdom and I'll always remember this day when we found out he survived and when things like losing coin flips don't feel so unlucky after all.

Very true. All that said, you make a specific person’s name and face the avatar of the cause and you raise more moolah.

Same. Even from a non-religious standpoint, I appreciate the medical miracle here. Only within the last couple decades does a human being stand a chance at surviving this.

Since Bills Mafia is becoming a legendary fundraising force, can we find something that funds and promotes free CPR classes and send $3 donations in honor of Denny Kellington?

Have to admit I’m crying some happy tears right now.

Well I think regardless of the Patriots game, it's likely that the Bills and Bengals will only play 16 games this season while the rest of the league plays 17 and things will boil down to win percentage. I prefer they flip a coin but that's something the league will shy away from. So given that, the Bills playing 15 isn't some huge problem. The biggest problem as far as competition goes is the potential of the Pats simply being handed a win and automatically advancing when other teams were led to believe they were still in the hunt.

No, you literally don't have to. You can quit any job. I repeat, I don't want that to happen. I don't think it will. But nobody HAS to do anything.

Read earlier in the thread and you'll see me saying that the Bills are going to play the game and that the NFL can't tolerate the franchise not doing it. But it's the players who have the actual power here even if the team gets punished.

I mean, they don't. I think they should and will but the players are grown adults who don't have to do anything they don't want to.

I know. The whole situation makes me sick to my stomach but earnestly I don't see how the Patriots game not being played helps.

I'll say this - if there are individuals on the team who feel they can't play, the team should honor their wishes. Dane Jackson springs to mind as someone who is not only very close to Damar but who suffered a frightening injury earlier himself. But the whole team not playing the game? Man, I just think that's a pandora's box of consequences. Competition for the postseason IS the game. Between players and coaches the NFL is comprised of like 3,000 guys. The chances of something awful happening to one of those people over the course of the season is really really high. The world can be unkind.

Sorry but the NFL won’t just tolerate that. It’s a damn hard situation for the Bills but it’s not like Damar gets better by us not playing.

GOAT practice QB, presumably.

*****. Yes.

They’ll take him off the ventilator and he may not make it despite any number of positive indicators. I think it makes a lot of sense not to give official statements.

Yeah I just don't see things going well for the Bills here. We're so used to movies where whoever plays with the most emotions comes out on top and the Bills players will certainly be more emotional than the other team...but a lot of those emotions aren't the kind that make you perform better in real life. NFL teams excel when they play with swagger. It's irrational but you need some of that feeling that you're immortal to rise to the top of a combat sport. Watching a teammate take a regular everyday hit and then have his heart stop does the exact opposite.

They got deleted and banned real quick but there were posters on this board last night doing infuriating things like calling Tee Higgins dirty, calling the league soft for postponing and blaming Covid vaccines. Bottom line, some percentage of fans from every fan base is awful.

I am so very indifferent right now to the results of the Bills' season and I suspect I will be until we know Damar is out of the woods and on his way to health. I can't imagine how the players feel. They're supposed to think about prepping for New England starting tomorrow, right? With their brother potentially on his death bed?

I hope that the money that's coming in is managed well and a large charitable organization is born out of it helping thousands of underprivileged kids. That's the legacy Hamlin deserves no matter how long he lives.