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If KC is 13-1....do you rest the starters? (https://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=318833)

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Originally Posted by BlackOp (Post 13889151)

I guess my OP wasn't very clear....

If KC is 13-1 with a 2.5 game lead....HFA is locked up with 2 games left.

Steelers/Patriots/Chargers would all have to lose one game over the next 4.

Chargers and NE both play the Steelers in the next few weeks.

Still would like 14-1... Before entertaining resting

I tell you what I DON'T want to see if we lock it up early.

5 wide more than two or three times a game.

That's just asking for the season to be over.

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Originally Posted by BlackOp (Post 13889151)

If that's where we are, I think a snap count makes sense. "Zero" for Berry until June.

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Originally Posted by GloryDayz (Post 13889176)

If that's where we are, I think a snap count makes sense. "Zero" for Berry until June.

Berry is "year to year"....

No rest! Go hard or go home!

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Originally Posted by BlackOp (Post 13889182)

Berry is "year to year"....

At this point I'm sure he's good with whatever keeps him getting pay for no play (or practice). Again, he's no gladiator, just a rusty old money hound.

Sad that after all the love and support KC gave him while he suffered through his fight with cancer that he turned on the city and fans like this. And to remain mum about the details this long makes my opinion irrefutable. Just because he has no legal obligation to tell us shit, doesn't mean he shouldn't. But we also have no legal obligation to remain silent or nice to him.

I hope he never returns, doesn't get a ring (if the Chiefs win the SB), and never makes it onto our ring of honor. He needs just leave, and the organization needs to keep him away from team activities, but they won't, they're nice to a fault.

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History has not been kind to teams that rest their starters. I'm fine with limiting the work for guys who are banged up (like we did with Watkins and Hitchens last wee), but otherwise...

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Wanting tickets to the Chargers game but the Raiders game would suck if Mahomes ain't playing.

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Originally Posted by DaFace (Post 13889272)

Hello

Limited snaps only.

Maybe 1-2 qtrs minimum

People are saying resting players isn't a good idea...but if Hill, Kelce, Watkins or Hunt get hurt in a pointless game....the world will probably end. Reid would catch so much shit...

I'd rest everyone for as long as possible...SB or a meaningless Raider game against a one win team?

I wait until we are 13-1 before I even give it a thought

I don't think you sit the starters. But playing them for the first half and then sitting the second is okay with me. But don't like the idea of starters sitting for 3 weeks at all

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Originally Posted by BlackOp (Post 13889327)

I don't disagree with the logic, but history has shown that it's a bad strategy.

https://nypost.com/2018/01/15/a-conv...-nfl-playoffs/

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The study counts teams that played their QBs but reined in the playbook or sat other stars as “full-go,” and teams that benched stars other than the QB as “full-go.” So in essence, this is a best-case scenario for the no-go crowd.

We found teams have gone “no-go” 20 times since 2005, and those teams went 8-12 in the divisional round, which includes the Steelers’ loss Sunday.

A mark of 8-12 in the divisional playoffs might not represent the same thing as an 8-12 over the course of 20 regular-season games, but consider those teams that went 8-12 had a combined regular-season record in their respective years of 244-60 (.803). Or consider the teams that they faced had a combined mark of 191-112-1 (.629). That means, using a rough estimate, those bye-week teams should have been something closer to 11-9.

But wait, there’s more. Bye-week teams that did not rest QBs in Week 17 went 25-8 (.758) in the same span. Teams that sat players appeared in five Super Bowls, going 2-3 – the champions being the 2009 Saints and 2014 Patriots. Teams that did not mail it in went to 12 Super Bowls, going 4-8.