01-03-2023, 10:18 AM
(01-03-2023, 10:07 AM)XenoMorph Wrote: Considering there is absolutely no good solution for player safety and finishing the Game I think they should write this up as a TIE.
Both teams are in the playoffs and only playing for Seed (while important not important enough to risk more injuries on a shorter week right before the playoffs)
Outside of the implications for this game I think we start to see Younger athelete's walking away from the game at a higher pace
Disclaimer: Assuming the guy is ok. 100% #1, 2, 3, 4, 5 priority.
But this is professional sports and the league will continue. If it were any other kind of collegiant or amature league, 100% it's a no contest or a tie or is made up whenever they can fit it in.
But this is professional. My issue with the tie is that if, in any sport, a team or participant cannot continue due to injury the game is ruled in favor of the team or participant who can.... regardless of the score.
Bills had a catastrophic injury and could not continue.
The only way a tie makes sense and I would understand is if the Bengals agreed to or demanded it and the NFL abided by that wish. I would NOT have an issue if that's what the Bengals did.
- BTW, I was at the game.... Lost in this is how absolutely awesome the Benagals came out. Never seen them just manhandle people like that on offense. Every single play the Bengals were laying wood. All of them. Hurst set the tone early and on the Higgins pla, Higgins layed into the guy.... not maliciously, but agressively delivering the hit for more yards. Bengals were going to give the Bills an absolute thrashing. On every play the Bills defensive pllayers were falling backwards.
On defense, they were flying to the ball and fighting hard from the start. I don't think the Bills were prepared or expected a game like that.
^ I bring this up because I hope this doesn't change their mentality for the simple sake of getting injured themselves. Hamlin kind of came up and either stopped or slowed down and got blasted by Higgins. 100% NOT DIRTY.... But he did not seem ready to deliver a blow himself seemed to expect the bigger Higgins, who had all the momentum, to just dive or fall down. That is a dangerous way to play a contact sport!
