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Originally Posted by Megatron96
I doubt the NFL can actually force BUF to play. And at this point, it looks like they're just waiting like everyone else, trying to plan for the eventualities they can plan for, and at some point they'll probably ask BUF how they want to go forward, and what they're options would look like.
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That's what the lawyers call an 'efficient breach'.
When you have a pre-existing obligation to do a thing you no longer want to do and you determine that the costs of doing that thing are outweighed by the benefits of NOT doing that thing, you go ahead and accept the consequences of not doing it confident in the knowledge that you still come out ahead of where you'd be had you gone ahead and done it.
So if the Bills are content in the knowledge that NOT playing will them less than playing will, that's fine - don't play. But you're not absolved of the consequences of not playing.
So Buffalo can take the forfeit if they'd like, but it's asinine to hold the league up while we wait for them to 'get their minds right'. That's not the way this works.