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Most human beings have coping strategies when things get hard. I don't see how refusing to work is going to help any of them cope? Will they ever be expected to play again in your mind?

Damn, that's great

That thought struck me as well. He is, through no real fault of his own, going to bear the burden of this the rest of his life. I work with a woman who ran over and killed a guy like 30 years ago. She wasn't charged because it was a dark rainy night, the guy was wearing all black, and basically jumped in front of her car, but its still with her

The Cinci fans have been 100% class, as someone else said. Many of the Cinci players have been great, and especially the coach. Having said that there did look to be some dirty pool going on. It's possible for all these things to be true.

My mom was a school psychologist. She forbade me from playing football, and I had a batting helmet that make me look like the Great Gazoo. She had seen too many young men getting concussed and having awful downstream consequences. This was the 1970s when 'getting your bell rung' was a sign that you were playing hard. I was mad about it at the time, but I get it now.

The NFLPA has the league by the shorthairs right now, I doubt we're going to see the usual league lawyerball/letter of the law stuff when this moves towards resolution

Like you, I've been watching football long enough when I can tell pretty quickly in a game how's its going to pan out. It didnt take long last night for this one to shape up real ugly. TJ, Josh's ankle/knee, then Hamlin. Obviously Hamlin is orders of magnitude more serious than anything else, but the point is that the game looked like it was going to be a real sht show for Buffalo

what on earth are they going to talk about on ESPN

Yeah and the thing is, I left a job that had a terrible work/life balance and took a substantial paycut to go back to where I was. It was an easy decision once I actually faced it, so it's not hard at all to imagine some of the thought processes guys like Tre/Morse/Hyde/Poyer must be going through right now. I encourage each and every one to think about their future

You have to think that if someone is on the fence about retiring that this would weigh on them at least some

People want instant answers and resolution, which we've been trained to expect. This isn't going to be one of those things though

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Chris Simms puts ranch on his mild chicken wings

well done captain joke getter

AJ Brown eff up would be enough though

but wasnt he the next josh allen?

Nobody cares but Henry has been my FF workhorse this year, and we're I'm in the championship. Oh well, RIP me and my $1000 prize

These games are the ones who tell us who the team really is. What i'm hoping for is a game like opening night against the Rams where the Bills come out and fire on all cylinders and get the Bengals out of sorts early, then keep the pressure on the whole game. What I'm expecting is more like the Bills come out with jitters, Cincy gets a 10 point lead, then the Bills dig in and it's a dogfight until the end. It's gonna suck being hung over for the first day back at work

So give Tre a little help over the top, play a 4-2-5 alignment and force Burrow to take the short stuff, or more likely, let him go bombs away. They'll get their passing yards but even a single turnover could well make the difference in this game

Carr and White is a p good QB room

did he run afoul of the PED regs and they gave him a choice?

Agreed, he'll do everything he can to be back for the playoffs but he's got to be thinking about his future at this point

To be fair, just about every consensus pick of that draft was wrong. Beane looks like a genius, but who would he have drafted if Allen had already been taken?

you can barely get any social media views without that

He seems completely physically dominant at times, similar to Jordan Phillips. If those two guys could gain some consistency, it would be something