NFL 2022

[SamCdbs]

I suspect the NFL will just cancel the game. Next week is the last game of the season. They certainly cannot ask the two teams to play a mid-week extra game, and even if they did, since it would affect the playoff standings, they wouldn't know the AFC playoff picture until that game was done. Nor can they add a week to the regular season. The date of the Super Bowl is set in stone, and moving it would be very difficult, and, really the networks are not going to want a single stand alone game in a week 19 when they have nothing else to show in the place of all those playoff games.

 

[meStevo]

Will be either cancellation or a week 19, they have the week between Championships and the Super Bowl they can use for flexibility.

The Bills preparing and being ready to play a game in 5 days, and the Bengals in 4, already seems like a tall order as it is.

 

[Jimbo]

They mentioned earlier, No Change to the week 18 schedule.

 

[Bruce]

The ESPN/ABC doubleheader for next Saturday has been announced…………

4:30 ET- Chiefs at Raiders
8:15 ET- Titans at Jaguars

Both games are going to be on ESPN+ also.

Bringing that up because they will be in 1080P and Dolby Digital+ sound vs 720P and DD on Traditional Providers.

 

[Don in CT]

Will be either cancellation or a week 19, they have the week between Championships and the Super Bowl they can use for flexibility.

The Bills preparing and being ready to play a game in 5 days, and the Bengals in 4, already seems like a tall order as it is.

Can they not play that game and have the seedings work.

 

[BillD1984]

First of all my thoughts and prayers continue to go out to Damar Hamlin. Last night was the most horrific thing I have ever witnessed watching a sporting event.

On one of the shows I was listening to earlier, they were discussing possible solutions to the schedule conundrum. This particular one was a little far out there, but at the same time made the most sense from a competitive standpoint.

*Play out Week 18 as regularly scheduled
*On the weekend of Jan. 14/15/16 play the 3 NFC Wildcard games and the Bills-Bengals game
*On the weekend of Jan. 21/22 play the 3 AFC Wildcard games and the 2 NFC Divisional round games
*On Sunday Jan. 29 play the 2 AFC Divisional round games and the NFC Championship Game
*On Sunday Feb. 5 play the AFC Championship Game
* On Sunday Feb. 12 the Super Bowl goes on as scheduled

This obviously has many flaws, not the least of which would be the NFC Champion would have the advantage of having a week off before the Super Bowl. On the flip side the NFL would get the full 272 games in, but MUCH more importantly not one of the Chiefs, Bills, Bengals and Ravens would get penalized when it comes to home field and seedings.

 

[HipKat]

Can they not play that game and have the seedings work.

That's my concern. Two teams who are both vying for the top seed should not be penalized because of a freak injury

 

[HipKat]

First of all my thoughts and prayers continue to go out to Damar Hamlin. Last night was the most horrific thing I have ever witnessed watching a sporting event.

The most horrifying I saw was when Sabres Goalie Clint Malarchuk had his neck sliced open by a skate blade and before the cameras could turn away, a pool of blood covered the ice in front of him. Just remembering it now haunts me with feelings of horror, thinking we were watching a man die. Ironically, the depression led him put a bullet in his own head, and survive

Episode 16: Clint Malarchuk: NHL Goalie, Tragic Accident And Suicide Survivor Turns Mental Health Advocate – Health Interrupted

healthinterruptedpodcast.com

 

[Jimbo]

The most horrifying I saw was when Sabres Goalie Clint Malarchuk had his neck sliced open by a skate blade and before the cameras could turn away, a pool of blood covered the ice in front of him. Just remembering it now haunts me with feelings of horror, thinking we were watching a man die. Ironically, the depression led him put a bullet in his own head, and survive

Episode 16: Clint Malarchuk: NHL Goalie, Tragic Accident And Suicide Survivor Turns Mental Health Advocate – Health Interrupted

healthinterruptedpodcast.com

Thanks for sharing, I never knew about this ... sad as it may be.

 

[Don in CT]

The most horrifying I saw was when Sabres Goalie Clint Malarchuk had his neck sliced open by a skate blade and before the cameras could turn away, a pool of blood covered the ice in front of him. Just remembering it now haunts me with feelings of horror, thinking we were watching a man die. Ironically, the depression led him put a bullet in his own head, and survive

Episode 16: Clint Malarchuk: NHL Goalie, Tragic Accident And Suicide Survivor Turns Mental Health Advocate – Health Interrupted

healthinterruptedpodcast.com

I remember seeing this.

 

[HipKat]

I remember seeing this.

It was brutal

 

[BillD1984]

The most horrifying I saw was when Sabres Goalie Clint Malarchuk had his neck sliced open by a skate blade and before the cameras could turn away, a pool of blood covered the ice in front of him. Just remembering it now haunts me with feelings of horror, thinking we were watching a man die. Ironically, the depression led him put a bullet in his own head, and survive

Episode 16: Clint Malarchuk: NHL Goalie, Tragic Accident And Suicide Survivor Turns Mental Health Advocate – Health Interrupted

healthinterruptedpodcast.com

Yes, Malarchuk and Joe Theismann were definitely the most gruesome looking injuries I’ve ever seen. But the optics of the first responders giving Demar Hamlin CPR for 9 minutes is something that I just can’t get out of my head. I was on the phone with my daughter a little while ago. She’s not even really a big football fan, but she was watching the first half of the game with her husband. She told me she couldn’t sleep last night because of watching that-and she’s a nurse.

 

[Jimbo]

Yes, Malarchuk and Joe Theismann were definitely the most gruesome looking injuries I’ve ever seen. But the optics of the first responders giving Demar Hamlin CPR for 9 minutes is something that I just can’t get out of my head. I was on the phone with my daughter a little while ago. She’s not even really a big football fan, but she was watching the first half of the game with her husband. She told me she couldn’t sleep last night because of watching that-and she’s a nurse.

I know the players all gathered around, some said so the cameras couldn't get in any closer .... as well as praying for him.
I never did see it close up, did they actually show the emergency personnel where you could see what they were doing ?
I was bouncing around trying to find what other info was out there.

 

[HipKat]

Yes, Malarchuk and Joe Theismann were definitely the most gruesome looking injuries I’ve ever seen. But the optics of the first responders giving Demar Hamlin CPR for 9 minutes is something that I just can’t get out of my head. I was on the phone with my daughter a little while ago. She’s not even really a big football fan, but she was watching the first half of the game with her husband. She told me she couldn’t sleep last night because of watching that-and she’s a nurse.

Yeah, my kids were grilling me about it because they saw it on Social Media

 

[BillD1984]

I know the players all gathered around, some said so the cameras couldn't get in any closer .... as well as praying for him.
I never did see it close up, did they actually show the emergency personnel where you could see what they were doing ?
I was bouncing around trying to find what other info was out there.

I just remember Joe Buck nonchalantly saying “there’s a Bills player down and it looks like Hamlin”. Simultaneous to that I was on a Red Sox fan site (they also cover the Patriots, Celtics and Bruins) and I was in the Week 17 NFL game thread. One poster on there wrote- “Oh F*** this isn’t good, they’re giving a Bills player CPR”. Obviously from that point forward all my attention was squarely on the TV. I rewound to the play and you could see Hamlin go down. Shortly after that Joe Buck confirmed they were administering CPR. Just a totally horrific scene.

 

[meStevo]

Not nearly as serious, but Ed McCaffery's wobbly leg has always stuck with me.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7Hwvq_ppE0

Outside of that, Steve Young's career ending in prime time.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxTc2C6CkzY

 

[AZ.]

The most horrifying I saw was when Sabres Goalie Clint Malarchuk had his neck sliced open by a skate blade and before the cameras could turn away, a pool of blood covered the ice in front of him. Just remembering it now haunts me with feelings of horror, thinking we were watching a man die. Ironically, the depression led him put a bullet in his own head, and survive

Episode 16: Clint Malarchuk: NHL Goalie, Tragic Accident And Suicide Survivor Turns Mental Health Advocate – Health Interrupted

healthinterruptedpodcast.com

I had forgotten...Yea that was beyond ugly....

 

[Yespage]

That's my concern. Two teams who are both vying for the top seed should not be penalized because of a freak injury

And somewhere there is the adage of "it's just a game".

As a Football fan, this is deja vu as it happened about 18 months ago when Christian Erikson just collapsed on the pitch after suffering a heart attack during the Euro 2020 tournament. Got better and has signed with Man United after a short spell with Brentford (both in the EPL).

 

[BillD1984]

Troy Vincent: pushing back the Patriots-Bills game is not off the table.


View: https://twitter.com/bossportsgordo/status/1610717895880851480?s=61&t=OgfQ7KlS8MGoH6wehUp9oQ

 

[SamCdbs]

Bengals have announced a 1:00 start for their home game against Baltimore. It has been originally "TBA", to be the 4:25 game if Cincinnati had lost Monday, as it would have been for the Division, and 1:00 otherwise.