by the time you get to the playoffs.
And the thing was is
you knew when injuries would heal. I mean, it's you get
an injury in mind that that's what football players used to. Hey,
you're out three weeks. You're out two weeks. You're out six
weeks. So you could gauge when a guy can get healthy and
hopefully
get healthy by the end of the regular season. When
the playoffs it, like for Tennessee, you know, they can
rest the get their guys healthy
and hopefully they can get them back by the playoffs.
The one thing. We don't know.
No is covid. I mean, covid has devastated devastated. Some
teams. Again member for in Baltimore is Josh Johnson, who
they signed 10 days ago that had to be the quarterback. We
saw Nick Mullens. The third quarterback for Cleveland have
to play. So that's the one outlier.
So while I agree,
you could, it can be Christmas. Now where you can find out what
team you have, still that unknown and that cross your
fingers and hold your breath is covid. Is is each day you come
in? Do you get the, you know, does the coach get handed?
Guy was positive. This guy was positive. This guy's going to
be out. This guy was unvaccinated. So he's going to
miss the next 10 days. He's going to mix the next game as
well. So that's the problem here.
Injuries. You have a kind of a time where you know, what's
going to heal covid? You just don't know when it's going to
hit and all of a sudden. I'm the morning of the game. You
can lose a guy and then you're in that auto position.
You know, on this covid situation, Mike, we've pivoted
dramatically from entering week 15, The Narrative was that the
vast majority of the players who have it are asymptomatic to
last week. The Narrative became all of these guys who are
landing on covid, reserved have symptoms and they are admirably
reporting them. Well, I would like to know the ratio of
Who are supporting their symptoms
to the guys who are keeping them quiet.
Because I have a feeling
121 122 123, maybe the ratio because we know what human
nature is going to do in this situation. I applaud the guys
who are self reporting, but I suspect that there are plenty
who aren't, but
if it's true as of a couple of weeks ago, that the vast
majority of the guys who have it are asymptomatic.
And the vast majority of the guys who are laying on covid
reserve. Now have symptoms. It tells me there's plenty of guys
out there who are asymptomatic and who are positive that just
not being tested. And I think
it's logical to conclude that this Omicron variant is washing
through these teams and the only good news is they're kind
of going to get some de facto herd immunity here once
everyone's had it and processed it, whether it's a symptomatic
or asymptomatic, we get through the
next couple of weeks and
Should be good to go for the postseason. It's kind of a weird
way to look at it. But that's what
I think is a logical conclusion as to what's happening. But you
know the bills got through it yesterday. Mike you were at
the Colts game on Saturday night. They got through it
despite having some key players absent. That's what's amazing
to me is how teams are just kind of processing it like any
other injury. Next. Man up. Let's go. We're not going to
let it wreck our game. We're not going to let it wreck our
season. And for the bills,
it's gonna take a lot to wreck the next two weeks because
the table is Is set for them. Steve kornacki broke it down last
night. They've got the Falcons and the Jets. Both going to
Buffalo in January to end the season. The way they were
struggling earlier
this year. That's the best gift of Bills fan could have gotten
to wake up today and to realize we got to do take care of
business. Next, two weeks at home against the Falcons and
the Jets. And we win the AFC East, we survived the thread,
we overcome the odds that were stacked.
Against dust after that Monday night debacle, against
the Patriots. Just amazing.