If KC is 13-1....do you rest the starters?
 

Obliviously a few things have to break right for KC to see this scenario to play out....but its not out of the realm of happening. NE has a road game against the Steelers and Vikings at home. Chargers have Bengals/Ravens and road games against Steelers and Denver.

If KC wins this week....they realistically could be sitting at 13-1 with a 2.5 game advantage in the AFC.

What do you do? Do you take a 3 week vacation and avoid any chance of injury?

You rest no one until HFA is locked.

I think in this scenario, it is locked. He is saying after week 15, the Chiefs have clinched the #1 seed. Do you rest the starters? I think that is what he is saying.

Treat the last 2 games like preseason. Have the starters play the first half or so, then sit them 3 weeks off before our playoff game is just asking for trouble

I put Houston, Ford, Watkins, Hunt, Kelce and LDT on snap counts.

The rest need to go as regularly planned.

Play them 1.5 quarters week 16 then sit them out week 17.

Andy didn't do that when we had the bye in 2016.

He won't do it now.

Well, we all know one that will be sitting. There’s that. D2D 4ever

it would be like a preseason game they'll play till Andy is satisfied

Not until home field is locked down. And even then, you'd only rest them the last week, they're already going to get a week off in that scenario. You can't lay guys up for three or four weeks and expect them to come out in playoff form

Berry plays all of the snaps!

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Definitely rest Berry, he needs some time off to heal.

Yes, rest them.

It seems like every playoff game KC loses someone to an injury and then the offense falls apart. Give the #2's some reps so they can finally step up if need be.

I think this is the most sensible thing to do. The Steelers and Chargers (today) only have 2 losses and Houston and NE have 3. Now I realize there's a lot of football to be played, but 2 losses could put us on the WC round.

I'm going to my first game at Arrowhead in 11 years vs. the Raiders. But, I'd rather see a Super Bowl win on TV than Mahomes play in person.

The Chargers win out. We lose to the Rams/Chargers we are in the WC. This thing aint over yet.

Just rest a couple of our broke dicks

Mahomes doesn't rest unless he's already broken all the NFL single season passing records. And then maybe.

No, 13-3 curse is real..... 14-2 or 15-1 please!

Not to mention that we need Mahomes to have as many’s reps as possible before a bye week.

You can guard our players sure, Hunt/Watkins/Travis/Hill snap count but you keep Oline in there with Mahomes let Robinson/Conely/Harris get reps

Last game rest the starters

I think playing the raiders week 17 will cause more harm than good

Beating a weak opponent gives a false sense of accomplishment in a time when the rest of the games are about to go up to the next level in intensity

They didn’t clinch the division that year until after week 17

It would be a nice problem to have. I would definitely not want to rest them for an entire game. Play the entire second to last game and play the last game like the third preseason game.

Wasn’t it the Colts a while back who rested everyone in the final week, and the team they got in because of that went on to beat them in the playoffs?

If homefield is locked up then I'd treat it as a preseason game. Play your starters for a quarter or so then start pulling them. I don't support fully sitting anyone unless they are injured because they'd be sitting for an entire month if you sat them for the last two games of the season and they had a 1st round bye in the playoffs.

Andy probably will but I wouldn’t.

I don’t feel comfortable sitting players for 3 weeks when the playoffs start. That’s how you get out of rythym.

If home field is still in play, you don't rest anyone. If it's not, and losing two games makes no difference, then I would limit the starters' play.

Play til you lock in HFA. Once you do that, anyone with dings or whatnot, can sit for a bit.

I don't think it will happen though.

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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.

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!

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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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

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/

Roll your slow...

Would rest Berry. He needs it more than the others.