This seems like one of those headlines we look back on in a month and go, "Boy, that escalated quickly."

Why not just let the standings be as they are? So the bills and bengals will have played 1 fewer game. You will still be able to figure out who is behind them and ahead of them with half games in the standings.

For the bills they’re only competing with the chiefs for the #1 seed. If they finish 13-3 and the chiefs finished 14-3, then the chiefs get the number 1 seed. It’s not “fair” but neither was Hamlin nearly dying on the field. It’s still the easiest and least complicated way of doing it.

For the bengals they’re 11-4 and the ravens are 10-6. Best the ravens can finish is 11-6. Best the bengals can finish is 12-4, worst they can finish is 11-5. In both cases that is a better record than 11-6. So that division should be a non issue.

Bengals win their division and take the 3 seed, chiefs win their division and number 1 seed with the bye. Bills lock up the 2 seed. Chargers and Ravens take wildcard spots. AFC south is up for grabs and the last wildcard spot is still up for grabs and has nothing to do with the bills or bengals.

I don’t see this being that big of an issue other than the bills holding a tie breaker over the chiefs and being robbed of a chance to claim the #1 seed. I think the best way to deal with that is to tell the Bills, sorry tough luck due to extenuating circumstances.

If it really matters to the bills and bengals so much, give them both a tie.

Or just 1 week media hype and build-up instead of 2.

Next you're going to tell me that locker room picture with all 60 of his trophies is fake too!!

Why? If there were a plane crash, they’d hold a draft and resume games. Why is this different?

For some background, I have a guy in one of my fantasy football leagues who normally does pretty well. Last year he missed the playoffs based on tiebreakers that left him one spot out. So he complained a lot in the off-season and this year he’s been jokingly referring to himself as the champ (the actual champ with has an asterisk in his mind).

He also squeaked into the playoffs and made it to the championship. He needed a miracle to win. But with this game in limbo, it’s impossible to know…

I can’t wait to hear him next year… /s

Found a guy who was personally hurt at sone point by Gronk’s domination over the years.

Edit: downvotes coming from other butthurt fans. Was Gronk notorious for pushing off?

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Superbowl was moved after 9/11- Following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks earlier in the season, the NFL postponed a week of regular-season games and moved the league's playoff schedule back. As a result, Super Bowl XXXVI was rescheduled from the original date of January 27 to February 3, becoming the first Super Bowl played in February.

This is huge! Oh wait, no it isn't! Who cares!!

Well we also need to consider that every last-minute change the NFL makes needs to also be approved by the NFLPA, and while I obviously can't speak for the PA, I believe they generally disapprove of players playing additional games, because more games = more danger to the players.

Hamlin's injury has the largest butterfly effect I've ever seen.

Well it's been a year and even back then it was really only available on Taiwan sites. I would advice you search for it in Chinese.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/sport/2022/feb/07/peng-shuai-says-weibo-post-sparked-enormous-misunderstanding

>It’s always good to see Peng Shuai, whether in an interview or attending the Olympic Games. However, her recent in-person interview does not alleviate any of our concerns about her initial post from 2 November.

See, people have met in person. But I bet that's not going to be enough anymore right?

>As to why the ccp might want to silence her, the ccp tried to silence the news of COVID within China for quite a while before the global outbreak. I don't see why they would want to do that instead of getting global help to contain the virus, but yet here we are.

We really going to do this?

The provincial government covered this from the federal level government for a week. Once this was discovered, the ccp immediately informed the WHO. It wasn't like the covered it up and got found out.

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Give each team a tie and get on with it!!!!

Fitting metaphor for Instagram tbh

It’s intriguing, but doesn’t that necessitate a 2nd Wild Card round of sorts? They’d either lose the extra week off before the Super Bowl or have to find some other way to massage the schedule.

It's like an entirely new found land.

Still kind of sucks for the Bengals because if they beat the Bills they'd be the 2nd seed. Now if both teams win they're locked into 3rd

Ravens fan here. This could have gone either way but I was really hoping for a Bengals loss here. This would have put us in good position for an AFC North #1 seed takeover, however unlikely because of our injuries.

Might hurt you for playoffs, but doesn't hurt for that draft pick they have next year.

they wouldn’t cancel a playoff game.

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There’s no way to know when/if he will wake up at the beginning. Usually we try to use the least sedation possible to keep the patient comfortable (based on non-verbal signs) and in synch with the ventilator. If that can be achieved with a low to medium dose, then the patient can wake up once their brain recovers enough. If he’s condition had been such that he needed deeper sedation, then sedation would be lightened when those other problems improved.
The brain isn’t going to benefit from the sedatives, especially at high doses. The more time a patient spends on high-dose sedation, the more confused they get. Sedation is dosed at “just enough to get the job done”. The nurses have protocols for adjusting sedation doses based on what’s going on. If you every hear of someone being in a medically-induced coma, think of it as a necessary evil to help facilitate other therapies to support one or more failing organ systems, rather than a therapy in and of itself. There are rare instances when the sedation is the therapy (e.g. continuous seizures that we can’t break), but usually it’s there to facilitate other therapies.