Roger Goodell said today's game was an experiment??

[The Firebaugh Kid]

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[Coach Tuesday]

Again: people who start new threads on topics being discussed at length might be worse than people who stand up as soon as the doors open when the airplane reaches the gate.

[buffaloboyinATL]

25 minutes ago, Haplo848 said:

Forgive my French, but I'm pissed.

 

Holy ***** this is maddening.

 

Forget how the NFL basically made the Bills and Jags basically play on concrete, resulting in multiple season ending injuries to our best players.

 

Forget disrupting schedules and flying across a ridiculous number of time zones, making such injuries much more likely.

 

Forget making the Bills give up a home game for that farce.

 

Even forget the atrocious job the refs did, destroying any semblance of a fair and unbiased game by calling penalties on the Bills every single time something maybe, possibly, LOOKED like it could potentially be called a penalty, while practically waiting until a Jaguars player murdered someone on the field before calling one on them, all in the name of giving the Jags a "signature win" to expand their fanbase overseas in preparation for their inevitable move to London.

 

Roger Goodell just straight up admitted that having the Jags play in London the previous week, then having them stay in London all week, while having the Bills fly in and play jetlagged was a way for the NFL to test just how much of an advantage that would be.

 

They came right out and said, to paraphrase "we are knowingly ***** over the Bills this week, and in doing so, ending their season by injuring their best players so badly that they will be out for the rest of the season."

 

This is rage-inducing.

 

Link Below:

https://x.com/haremherd/status/1711390018109923498?s=20

Deep breaths Haplo.  This is not worth having a stroke over.  Step away from the keyboard and get your blood pressure back in line.

[Draconator]

Goodell sucks, but the game is over. No changing the outcome. Play on and win on. 

Edited October 11, 2023 by Draconator

[Low Positive]

Just now, Coach Tuesday said:

Again: people who start new threads on topics being discussed at length might be worse than people who stand up as soon as the doors open when the airplane reaches the gate.

I've never understood why this bothers people so much. Just like I've never understood why a coach clapping bothers people. It's not just us. My fellow Hoosiers fans hated Tom Crean's clapping more than anything. There was a lot not to like about Crean, but clapping was not even on my list.

[BobbyC81]

Neither major injury on Thursday had anything to do with the turf.  Milano was bent into an unfortunate position.  Jones’ pectoral injury was likely just from wrestling with offensive linemen.

[london_bills]

Put goodells poster up in the locker room. Use it as fuel to get to the SB.

[BobbyC81]

9 minutes ago, Saint Doug said:

It was done for science. 

For the good of mankind!

[Fleezoid]

10 minutes ago, Saint Doug said:

It was done for science. 

 

The movie is coming next spring. Role of Roger Goodell played by Gene Hackman.

 

[Fr. Jerk]

No, its not rigged. 

 

[ALLinALLEN]

This is the third thread with this same exact clip. 

[Utah John]

Let's try another experiment. We'll hold an NFL commissioner under water for 10 minutes and see what he says later. 

[Goin Breakdown]

1 hour ago, Fr. Jerk said:

No, its not rigged. 

 

What am I getting out of this. I know I'm missing something. 

[Utah John]

1 hour ago, Coach Tuesday said:

Again: people who start new threads on topics being discussed at length might be worse than people who stand up as soon as the doors open when the airplane reaches the gate.

Maybe the people who stand up just want to stretch, or make sure they can get their bag out of the overhead.  Both legitimate reasons.  For starting new threads, not so much.

[BillsShredder83]

4 hours ago, Augie said:

 

I don’t think a few hours makes any difference. I am certain a week makes a difference. 

it helps a ton. if games start at 1p, players are there by 10am at the latest.... so 10am + 5hr jetlag had these guys showing up to work at their bodies equivalent time of 5am, which means they woke up at 4a-430a at latest.

 

make the game a 5 or 6pm local time, and theyre body can stay on their normal 1pm schedule.... except that nullifies the NFL have 4 time slots, instead of 3, which is the reason they havent and wont do that

[Augie]

3 minutes ago, BillsShredder83 said:

it helps a ton. if games start at 1p, players are there by 10am at the latest.... so 10am + 5hr jetlag had these guys showing up to work at their bodies equivalent time of 5am, which means they woke up at 4a-430a at latest.

 

make the game a 5 or 6pm local time, and theyre body can stay on their normal 1pm schedule.... except that nullifies the NFL have 4 time slots, instead of 3, which is the reason they havent and wont do that

 

Nope. FAR from a ton. I was just there and roughly on their schedule. A couple hours won’t have zero difference, but it doesn’t begin to normalize things. A week, however, THAT makes a HUGE difference. I call BS on the NFL. 

[Homey D. Clown]

I never watched a single game played in toronto, and I didn't watch the game sunday.  I will not support overseas games, even if it has less than zero impact to the NFL.

[reddogblitz]

On 10/8/2023 at 6:45 PM, Ed_Formerly_of_Roch said:

 

Actually the biggest issue may be for the permanent London team when they return from a road trip, with the time difference would make for a shorter practice week.

 

If there's a permanent team in London there should be a rule that X% must be native to England.  Say 10%. See if they can field a team.

[Ed_Formerly_of_Roch]

1 hour ago, reddogblitz said:

 

If there's a permanent team in London there should be a rule that X% must be native to England.  Say 10%. See if they can field a team.

 

Yeah, but they'd be great on field goals!

[BigAl2526]

On 10/8/2023 at 4:19 PM, Bubba Gump said:

Are you ***** kidding me?? He said they wanted to see how having a team over there for a few weeks stood up to a team travelling from the US. Boomer Esiason just said he would be pissed if he were the Bills. Basically said Goodell's "experiment" was a joke. 

The game was an experiment.  The NFL wanted to see if they could take what should be home field advantage and turn it into a disadvantage.  They succeeded.