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Phillips is a big upgrade to Bryant when healthy I’m not sure how IR rules work for the playoffs, but PS elevations re-set and become unlimited for each player However, the teams still only get 2 elevations

That’s kind of been his story since he left Buffalo. The business of trying to chase people down and pulling a hammy or hurting his shoulder was silliness.

At the time of the injury, it was said it was a 6-9 month recovery Hyde may be a bit ahead of schedule in terms of being cleared to run on the sideline with trainers, but at the end of the day, bone heals as fast as it heals He’s got a wife and young family, no reason to risk returning when he might not be completely healed I just wish Beane could pull something out of his hat that would help the team, between Von Miller and Phillips and Hyde and Hamlin we’re pretty thin

Trevor Lawrence still looks like a horse

Oh, Spencer……I know he’s only missed, what, 2 games? But it seems as though he’s always getting dinged, has missed time in 3 other games But he’s the best RT we have at the moment so I hope he’s OK

No chance

I thought that was kind of ticky tack as holding calls go WHOA! Lions are keeping NOTHING back

C’mon Lions!

Def. Idiot. Not a Collinsworth fan but he had it right, if ever there is a week to put some respect on the trainers, this would be the week I would just kind of like to see Geno Smith get a chance at Playoffs

#7 on the Packers needs a double-dose of self awareness Shoving a trainer tending to a player when his teammate just got away with a personal foul forearm to the head of a down helpless player Never more glad than to see Lions get the TD on that

Uh-oh, especially since ankle/calf injuries were his Bane during 2020

What happened to Brown?

Dolphins are Mammals I don’t give a rat’s ass, Mate Squish the ***** ing Fish

Yeah, I think Tomlin may have a word or two with those guys I don’t think that was the intent, I think they’ve done that before. But like Yolo said “Read the Room, Boys”

Can he play safety?

Like every other Bills fan and compassionate human in the country, I was busy praying for a positive outcome for Damar Hamlin Now that he seems on track to have a good life physically and mentally and there's even reason to hope he'll recover completely, I'm back to worrying about the Bills. In addition to the team's mental health, it seems to me defense is a big concern. Not only does Von Miller's absence degrade our pass rush and Tre' White not yet himself, but we now have a big hole at safety. After Hyde went down, Hamlin had his Learning Experiences but overall, when both Poyer and Hamlin were playing we did OK. Jaquan Johnson seems to be enthusiastic, but a step down. Cam Lewis seems to have moved ahead of him on the depth chart, but he's 3" shorter and 20 lbs lighter and that shows up in both run and pass defense. Marlow has the height and size but since we traded for him, has played only on ST for 3 games in November and has been inactive else. The Rams improbably won the Superbowl last season by bringing Eric Weddle off the sofa to play DB, after he'd retired in February of 2020. Do the Bills have any available alternatives they could possibly sign to bolster the roster at safety? (I know someone will say "can Hyde return?" but the 6-9 month timeline given at the point of his Sept 25th neck surgery would put him able to return in March, and for the good of his long-term health I don't think he should push that)

There's not (as far as we know) major damage as after a heart attack. But even with immediate, high quality CPR, there was a period of low oxygen supply, then a big Whallop of voltage, and probably a pretty high dose of a couple of drugs. The body responds with a major inflammatory response. His heart is gonna need a little minute to "get right", even if it's fundamentally intact and undamaged. Ditto for his other organ systems.

When the doctors in their press conference said "he's still very sick", they likely weren't joking. It's fantastic that he's off the ventilator and able to ask questions and communicate. But there are a host of complications to almost every organ system following cardiac arrest and recovery. We already know Damar suffered from, and is on his way to overcoming, one of them (ARDS, acute respiratory distress syndrome, the reason he was proned) I started to write a longer explanation and deleted it. I don't want to Be That Guy. Suffice it to say that early signs of Damar's recovery are absolutely fantastic and his chance of a future look bright, but near-term, his doctors could be managing serious conditions of several organ systems. Keeping him in the ICU under the care of the same physician team is probably for the best. If you really want to know, google "post cardiac arrest syndrome" and don't say I didn't warn you it's scary. But keep in mind, his neurological status and the fact that he's off the ventilator are very very good signs.

A good question is: where is the locker room on McDaniels right now? Does the offense believe in Stidham? He did throw for 365 yds and 3 TD and take them to OT last week vs. SF My impression is that McDaniel has lost them and it's a dumpster fire But SF has quietly fought their way to the #2 seed in the NFC, and a team doesn't usually take an opponent like that to OT unless they believe in themselves And their coach So would love to be wrong. Maybe Carr *was* the problem?

I think the big disadvantage is the work that our guys normally put in on their own. Players like Poyer and White and Jones and Oliver and Phillips and hopefully now Rousseau and Epenesa spend hours watching game film of the opponent, looking for anything that can give them an edge. Same thing on offense. Very hard to be focused and put that grind when you're shell-shocked and worried about your brother player. But transitioning to giddy with relief and joyful doesn't make focus any easier. We do play them, but teams still scout and self-scout for the latest tendencies.

Again, way above my knowledge base,but if it's felt to have a genetic component, I would think genetic screening and from @pennstate10 knowledge, cardiac MRI as perhaps the most definitive test, would be next steps. But that doesn't address your fundamental issue which seems to be: if the genetic screening is positive, but the functional diagnostic tests (stress echo, cardiac MRI) do not show current disease, do you keep them off the field? And I can make arguments both ways on that. I would think they would keep him from playing.

That's a really good question - what screenings do they do? (and also, intending no aspersions so college football fans please don't beat me, is Pitt a top program that would screen? My friend's daughter went to a D1 school and they didn't screen her. I had thought (and this is just chit chat with cardiologists during my mom's CHF diagnosis) that there was a bunch of work about detecting HCM by 12 lead EKG now. This kind of thing, which was just published when my mom was being diagnosed https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4344534/ The idea being that echocardiograms don't detect HCM before the heart muscle actually thickens, but they were able to pull out subtleties from the EKG that did. I haven't kept up, and like a lot of research it may or may not have panned out in wider use. I won't speak again what I feared it was.

In 2010 I went out to dinner and a show with some friends who were Broncos fans. Now it's always a challenge when a new coach takes over for a long time championship and Superbowl winning coach but they were very bitter about McDaniels dismantling the team, trading away Cutler in his 4th year just when it looked as though the lightbulb had come on for him in his 3rd year, drafting Tim Tebow in the first round, the whole thing. OK then there were the Rams, I've never been a Rams fan including through the "Greatest Show on Turf", but I thought it was a stupid decision when the Rams fired Pat Shurmur and brought Josh McDaniels, fresh off dismantling the Broncos, as OC in Bradford's second year. Bradford had looked like he had potential his rookie season - reasonable YPG, reasonable TD throws, too many INT but that's not uncommon for a rookie. In his second season under McDaniels, Bradford just looked like a hot mess. He threw 6 TD all season, I kid you not, and 6 INTs to go with them - half the TD % he had his previous year. Then his 3rd season with McDaniels out the door and Schottenheimer in, he looked as though he could play once again. Conincydink, I think not. I think it's Round 2 of evidence that with McDaniels, you suit his system or you don't, he won't adjust. Anyway, GO RAIDERS!

I love that. Jessica Pegula has been through a lot this year, dealing with whatever her Mom is going through and yet continuing to play professional tennis at the highest level of her life. I would say she might be inspired by her mom, as well. Tremendous respect for the way she's compartmentalizing and even letting it inspire her!