Originally Posted by BWillie:
They will probably tbh why not
Why not simply preemptively suspend him for however many games he's likely to miss (assuming it doesn't somehow screw up his rehab)? Why not go ahead and don the black hat that has become so comfortable for us anyway?
"The KC Chiefs suspend Rashee Rice 20 games for his involvement in a car accident..."
What is the League going to do, suggest 20 games isn't enough?!? [Reply]
Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla:
Why not simply preemptively suspend him for however many games he's likely to miss (assuming it doesn't somehow screw up his rehab)? Why not go ahead and don the black hat that has become so comfortable for us anyway?
"The KC Chiefs suspend Rashee Rice 20 games for his involvement in a car accident..."
What is the League going to do, suggest 20 games isn't enough?!?
I've only seen that tried in college sports and it's usually because the NCAA takes forever to make disciplinary decisions and the teams are trying to get the suspension done when they are playing lesser opponents. Never seen anyone try it when the player is also injured and wouldn't be able to play anyway lol [Reply]
A sad day in terms of losing Rice for a while, sadly for a long while I suspect. I'm happy we have JJSS, but this might very well have a terrible affect on the remainder of our season. I hope game prep, being ready to go from the coin toss, needs to be a very blunt conversation with this squad. [Reply]
Originally Posted by smithandrew051:
Has our luck been all that great though?
In 2019, we won the Super Bowl despite getting beat to shit with injuries all year. Some of those guys came back but we even had to sign Suggs because we lost so many DEs.
We pretty much were always dealing with injuries to Watkins and Clark.
We lost a Super Bowl due to like 5 OL injuries and opt outs.
Mahomes has had multiple lower leg injuries and even got pulled from a playoff game for getting choked out.
Just because the Chiefs overcome it normally doesn’t mean we’ve been all that fortunate. Shit, we just won a Super Bowl despite losing our best OL and a key pass rusher in the AFCCG. Even the backup to that OL got hurt. That would’ve been a reasonable excuse for losing to the 49ers.
Every NFL team is gonna be banged up from year to year. That’s expected. We have been fortunate, prior to this year, to avoid the major season ending injuries to star players. Kelce has never missed more than a few games (since he became the starter). Same with Jones. Hill never missed much time and obviously we’ve only lost Pat for a handful of games. The types of injuries we are dealing with now to Brown and especially Rice, in terms of losing skill position players, is relatively new to this group. [Reply]