Week 17 Game Thread - Who's Gonna Be in and Out?

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Yes. It's worth the risk. Keeps the players focused on football and winning. If Manning was made of glass like Gronk, you sit him obviously. But he doesn't get hurt. So play it through.
I guess we'll agree to disagree.
 

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Yes. It's worth the risk. Keeps the players focused on football and winning. If Manning was made of glass like Gronk, you sit him obviously. But he doesn't get hurt. So play it through.
Always a first time, although he has eyes in the back of his head and is like covered with grease.
 

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Does a 8-6-2 Redskins have a chance at a tiebreaker vs 9-7 NFC North 2nd place team?
 

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How bad was SF this season? ... The safety today against Seattle accounted for the first points scored either by the 49ers' defense or special teams this season. And nothing about the play was due to anything SF did
 

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I guess we'll agree to disagree.
Giants played really hard in 2007 when it didn't matter, against the undefeated Patriots, to give the team a taste of championship football, eschewing injury worries. The strategy was questioned. The Giants had the last laugh.

Eli Manning has never missed a game due to injury. You're going to sit him now on the off chance that he wins the injury lottery, instead of keeping him sharp against a division rival whose season they could end?
 

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Giants played really hard in 2007 when it didn't matter, against the undefeated Patriots, to give the team a taste of championship football, eschewing injury worries. The strategy was questioned. The Giants had the last laugh.

Eli Manning has never missed a game due to injury. You're going to sit him now on the off chance that he wins the injury lottery, instead of keeping him sharp against a division rival whose season they could end?
Eli Manning is an experienced veteran whose been in the playoff meat grinder. A few series should easily keep him sharp. I'm fine with playing him, but the entire game seems unnecessary.
 

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“@Rich_Hammond: Goff sacked for seventh time.”

I am going to love. LOVE having the Chargers and Rams take a dump on my tv every Sunday next season. Just splendid. LA goes from no teams to two terrible teams. They better get good quickly or LA will turn on them. LA have already begun to turn on The Rams.
 

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“@Rich_Hammond: Goff sacked for seventh time.”

I am going to love. LOVE having the Chargers and Rams take a dump on my tv every Sunday next season. Just splendid. LA goes from no teams to two terrible teams. They better get good quickly or LA will turn on them and they already have begun to turn on. The Rams.
We've been through this. You are under no obligation to watch either. In fact, there are steps you can take to watch other teams.
 

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Eli Manning is an experienced veteran whose been in the playoff meat grinder. A few series should easily keep him sharp. I'm fine with playing him, but the entire game seems unnecessary.
He's also had a terrible season and he never gets injured. Give him big game reps and keep him sharp. The risk of him being injured are just so low, what's the difference?

I'll note that amazingly he wasn't injured today.
 

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“@Rich_Hammond: Goff sacked for seventh time.”

I am going to love. LOVE having the Chargers and Rams take a dump on my tv every Sunday next season. Just splendid. LA goes from no teams to two terrible teams. They better get good quickly or LA will turn on them. they already have begun to turn onThe Rams.
Down the road in SD, they're finally fed up with the Chargers and are saying, yeah, go already. Of course, they put up with the Padres there forever too.
 

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Down the road in SD, they're finally fed up with the Chargers and are saying, yeah, go already. Of course, they put up with the Padres there forever too.
There's only so long a team can threaten to leave, and talk about leaving, and talk about options for leaving, before a city says "fine, go, we'll survive without giving you hundreds of millions of $".
 

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I don't watch the Giants much, but I can't really ever remember a team driving on them in the two minute drill to tie or win.