01-04-2023, 09:45 PM
(01-04-2023, 09:35 PM)TheCincinnatiKid Wrote: It could change by the the weekend to be fair. At this stage, it's still fresh and the team won't have been together in a 'football' sense much. They only had their first practice today, maybe with some more normality they'll be better for Sunday.
But this is why I loathed the idea of 'lets just crack on... the show must go on... these guys need to man up and tough it out'. The idea has been that the Bills couldn't continue and weren't ready. Didn't seem like a lot of people stopped to think whether OUR guys were ready, when we were keen to sign them up for a game tonight or yesterday.
It's also why I dislike the bashing the NFL is getting. Im no protectorate of Goddell or the NFL, but they've clearly backed the teams on this, and to my mind the decision not to play this week was clearly one the team's led on rather than the NFL. Yes there needs to be more direction from them, but I said all along that the decision not to replay this game quickly, was down to the Bengals and the Bills.
Still... like I said firstly, it's still early in game week, things can change by Sunday. Guys might come more round to playing, we may get good news on Hamlin. We'll hope for the best.
Practicing should help a lot. Some of them are already ready to go, but there will be some that have to deal with whatever they have to deal with. Everyone deals with things differently. Hopefully we play the Ravens and beat the crap out of them. That would be the best thing to do, imo, but some of the players wont be feeling it I'm sure. Tee is the one I worry might need a bit more time, but then again he might not.
