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re: You're an NFL HC, your team is 16-0 going into the final week
Posted on 12/15/25 at 3:15 pm to SoFla Tideroller
Posted on 12/15/25 at 3:15 pm to SoFla Tideroller
You want to treat it like a preseason game. Let the starters play a quart or 2 and then sit them. You don't want them to go 3 weeks without any real game action.
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Posted on 12/15/25 at 3:41 pm to holdmuh keystonelite
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You want to treat it like a preseason game. Let the starters play a quart or 2 and then sit them. You don't want them to go 3 weeks without any real game action.
This here. Anyone that isn't dealing with a nagging injury plays to start the game. Maybe start rotating second stringers in with the starters in the second quarter, and have the starters play one series at the start of the second half. After that, let everyone else play.
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Posted on 12/15/25 at 3:43 pm to Ostrich
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You play to win the game.
This.
Posted on 12/15/25 at 4:12 pm to karmew32
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There's a reason the Manning Colts didn't win more than one Super Bowl.
Tom Brady?
Posted on 12/15/25 at 4:27 pm to SoFla Tideroller
Worked out for the Patriots right?
Posted on 12/15/25 at 4:31 pm to SoFla Tideroller
I get the injury argument, but I think it's better mentally for your players to reinforce the competitive hunger. Throwing a game for meta strategy reasons would really rub me the wrong way, as it would anyone who is actually a fierce competitor.
This post was edited on 12/15/25 at 7:16 pm
Posted on 12/15/25 at 4:58 pm to SoFla Tideroller
You play and don’t be a bitch.
Posted on 12/15/25 at 5:40 pm to SoFla Tideroller
Depends. Is the team on fire and clicking on all cylinders, or scrapping by to get wins and also having some key players banged up in the process?
If the team is really healthy in general, don’t rest. If you have key players hurt, get healthy for the playoff run.
You have to remember how rusty a team can become if your best players sit 2 weeks in a row.
If the team is really healthy in general, don’t rest. If you have key players hurt, get healthy for the playoff run.
You have to remember how rusty a team can become if your best players sit 2 weeks in a row.
Posted on 12/15/25 at 5:41 pm to TTsTowel
You play the damn game and act like professionals.
Also, many super bowl winners are forgotten but everyone knows the unbeaten Dolphins team.
Also, many super bowl winners are forgotten but everyone knows the unbeaten Dolphins team.
Posted on 12/15/25 at 5:49 pm to SoFla Tideroller
Records get broken all the time. Going undefeated is certainly something to hang your hat on, but if you don’t win a SB that season it really doesn’t matter.
Posted on 12/15/25 at 5:59 pm to SoFla Tideroller
We have a real world example of this from 2007. Weird how the thread was started as a hypothetical without mentioning it.
The Colts were in this situation in 2009 too, but that was the second to last game where they quit on history. The Saints would have taken care of them anyways.
The Colts were in this situation in 2009 too, but that was the second to last game where they quit on history. The Saints would have taken care of them anyways.
This post was edited on 12/15/25 at 6:02 pm
Posted on 12/15/25 at 7:18 pm to Marciano1
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You play the damn game and act like professionals.
Also, many super bowl winners are forgotten but everyone knows the unbeaten Dolphins team.
This is a great point. The number of Super Bowl winners is an infinitely growing list. Does anyone really remember who won the Super Bowl 20 years ago? Outside of the players on that team and fans of that particularity team at that particular time, it really loses its value quickly.
Going undefeated is something that may happen once every 100 years and will be remembered a lot longer.
Throwing that opportunity away to PERHAPS avoid an injury is pussy as it gets.
Posted on 12/15/25 at 7:24 pm to SoFla Tideroller
Ask the 2007 Patriots which one they'd rather have, 16-0 or the ring
Posted on 12/15/25 at 7:37 pm to SoFla Tideroller
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I'd be inclined to go for
If you are 15-1, rest the players
If you are 16-0 and have a shot at history, take it.
This post was edited on 12/15/25 at 7:42 pm
Posted on 12/15/25 at 7:40 pm to Stealth Matrix
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Ask the 2007 Patriots which one they'd rather have, 16-0 or the ring
Did going for 16-0 cost them the ring?
This post was edited on 12/15/25 at 7:41 pm
Posted on 12/15/25 at 7:40 pm to SoFla Tideroller
You 100% go for it.
Life rarely if ever gives opportunities like that, to truly cement your place as the best of all time. Should never pass it up.
Life rarely if ever gives opportunities like that, to truly cement your place as the best of all time. Should never pass it up.
Posted on 12/15/25 at 7:45 pm to SoFla Tideroller
There have been 60 Super Bowl Winners or so. There has only been 1 team finish as undefeated. You go for the undefeated season. This isn't even a debate.
This post was edited on 12/15/25 at 9:10 pm
Posted on 12/15/25 at 7:49 pm to SoFla Tideroller
Not enough information in OP to decide
1. How healthy is your team?
2. Is the opposing team playing for anything other than pride? Are they good? Are they a division rival? Are they healthy?
3. Is this game home or away? Whats the weather like? How old is the Field Turf or how well maintained is the grass pitch?
4. Do any of your star players have incentives that they need to play to hit?
Plenty more questions but these are what come to mind now?
1. How healthy is your team?
2. Is the opposing team playing for anything other than pride? Are they good? Are they a division rival? Are they healthy?
3. Is this game home or away? Whats the weather like? How old is the Field Turf or how well maintained is the grass pitch?
4. Do any of your star players have incentives that they need to play to hit?
Plenty more questions but these are what come to mind now?
Posted on 12/15/25 at 7:52 pm to StansberryRules
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Does anyone really remember who won the Super Bowl 20 years ago?
I mean we (Saints) kind of remember ours
Posted on 12/15/25 at 8:01 pm to Stealth Matrix
quote:Yeah, but what does that have to do with this thread?
Ask the 2007 Patriots which one they'd rather have, 16-0 or the ring
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