***** Official Bengals/Bills GDT *****

[TwistedChief]

Al Qaeda vs ISIS on display tonight!

Here’s to our Osama bin Laden - Joe Burrow!

Go Bengals!

[TEX]

Originally Posted by KCChiefsFan88

The grandstanding on ESPN today is ridiculous.

Foxworth going on a rant about CTE… Hamlin suffered freaking CARDIAC arrest.

Yep. It was getting borderline ridiculous last night.

[Dartgod]

Originally Posted by stevieray

We tend to make heroes and villains out of these players solely for our enjoyment of being entertained. When the reality is, once the pads come off, they are just like you and me. Sons, fathers, brothers, etc.

If there is a sliver lining to this tragedy, it would be fruitful to realize this.

Well said, brother.

[TEX]

Originally Posted by stevieray

We tend to make heroes and villains out of these players solely for our enjoyment of being entertained. When the reality is, once the pads come off, they are just like you and me. Sons, fathers, brothers, etc.

If there is a sliver lining to this tragedy, it would be fruitful to realize this.

Amen!

[dallaschiefsfan]

Originally Posted by TEX

Yep. It was getting borderline ridiculous last night.

All the good will built up by ESPN in the heat of the moment, doing their best...and of course they throw it all away and regress back to what they are as a network. I hate ESPN.

[notorious]

Originally Posted by cdcox

If the league already has it narrowed down to these choices, but hasn’t yet announced an arrangement, I wonder if they are waiting to gather input from the Bills. In which case the league lays out the options, and if the players aren’t ready to go back to playing then the Bills forfeit. Sucks, but it would give the Bills players a voice in how to go forward, and does move things forward.

After something traumatic happens it's hard to think straight.

Given some more time Buffalo should be able to refocus on a decision.

[kccrow]

Originally Posted by Balto

The problem with this is that if either or both Pats and Ravens make the playoffs they are now going to bitch about having to turn around and play a wild card game with 1 or 2 days of less prep and why are they getting penalized. They won’t want that

1 day less is hardly something they should be overly upset about if it is announced soon. They have a VP/Director of Player/Pro Personnel and his scouts just to break down films on other teams, so we can't act like they wouldn't be prepared.

This is a very isolated situation of extreme rarity. I think some concessions can be made. How do you think the Bills' players feel right now?

It's a tough one, but something also has to be done to finish the season, and moving post-season games is probably not high on the NFL's list of ideal scenarios. That, however, is the only other semi-reasonable option I've seen. Pushing everything back and eliminating the break week before the Super Bowl so that there is some room to play this all out is pretty much option B.

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by stevieray

We tend to make heroes and villains out of these players solely for our enjoyment of being entertained. When the reality is, once the pads come off, they are just like you and me. Sons, fathers, brothers, etc.

If there is a sliver lining to this tragedy, it would be fruitful to realize this.

Amen brother... Well said...

[George Liquor]

Originally Posted by stevieray

We tend to make heroes and villains out of these players solely for our enjoyment of being entertained. When the reality is, once the pads come off, they are just like you and me. Sons, fathers, brothers, etc.

If there is a sliver lining to this tragedy, it would be fruitful to realize this.

I still hate Tom Brady though

[Straight, No Chaser]

Originally Posted by KCChiefsFan88

The grandstanding on ESPN today is ridiculous.

Foxworth going on a rant about CTE… Hamlin suffered freaking CARDIAC arrest.

I don't know about grandstanding" today.

Last night, flipping between Joe Buck & Troy, Scott Van Pelt, and the vocabulary-challenged, hyperbolic Ryan Clark, and then over to Suzy Kolber, The Booger and some other dude, it struck me how excruciating awkward and inadequate these people are at reporting news.

They only thing they could repeat ad nauseam was "This is about Jamar"

Even after years of experience, it's like, if there's not a sporting event going on, they can't seem to know what to say?

Pathetic.

[BleedingRed]

Originally Posted by Straight, No Chaser

I don't know about grandstanding" today.

Last night, flipping between Joe Buck & Troy, Scott Van Pelt, and the vocabulary-challenged, hyperbolic Ryan Clark, and then over to Suzy Kolber, The Booger and some other dude, it struck me how excruciating awkward and inadequate these people are at reporting news.

They only thing they could repeat ad nauseam was "This is about Jamar"

Even after years of experience, it's like, if there's not a sporting event going on, they can't seem to know what to say?

Pathetic.

I did notice NONE OF THEM knew how to fill air time

[notorious]

Originally Posted by BleedingRed

I did notice NONE OF THEM knew how to fill air time

Hard spot to be in.

I didn't want to hear them drone on and on so I turned it off.

[TwistedChief]

Originally Posted by Straight, No Chaser

I don't know about grandstanding" today.

Last night, flipping between Joe Buck & Troy, Scott Van Pelt, and the vocabulary-challenged, hyperbolic Ryan Clark, and then over to Suzy Kolber, The Booger and some other dude, it struck me how excruciating awkward and inadequate these people are at reporting news.

They only thing they could repeat ad nauseam was "This is about Jamar"

Even after years of experience, it's like, if there's not a sporting event going on, they can't seem to know what to say?

Pathetic.

I don't know. I think it's an incredibly difficult situation for them to be in. I'm sure they could've spent endless amounts of time discussing potential re-scheduling solutions and playoff implications, but then that would've been thought of as being in poor taste.

These aren't trained news anchors. They're people well-versed in talking about sports, and when there's a tragedy in the sport, it's a human interest story and not about the sport itself at all.

It was destined to be an awkward, unsatisfying situation if you continued to watch.

[BleedingRed]

Originally Posted by TwistedChief

I don't know. I think it's an incredibly difficult situation for them to be in. I'm sure they could've spent endless amounts of time discussing potential re-scheduling solutions and playoff implications, but then that would've been thought of as being in poor taste.

These aren't trained news anchors. They're people well-versed in talking about sports, and when there's a tragedy in the sport, it's a human interest story and not about the sport itself at all.

It was destined to be an awkward, unsatisfying situation if you continued to watch.

You’d think they would of had a documentary queued up from NFL films or something.

[Imon Yourside]

Originally Posted by TwistedChief

I don't know. I think it's an incredibly difficult situation for them to be in. I'm sure they could've spent endless amounts of time discussing potential re-scheduling solutions and playoff implications, but then that would've been thought of as being in poor taste.

These aren't trained news anchors. They're people well-versed in talking about sports, and when there's a tragedy in the sport, it's a human interest story and not about the sport itself at all.

It was destined to be an awkward, unsatisfying situation if you continued to watch.

No reason to watch once the game was called

[TwistedChief]

Originally Posted by BleedingRed

You’d think they would of had a documentary queued up from NFL films or something.

Which documentary would've been appropriate to show at that point? The Dennis Byrd story?