Ah gotcha. Yeah I imagine those would have to get voided. There’s usually fine print on your receipt about what happens if a game is not finished, has no result, etc. But I’ve never made a season long bet like Burrow over 4500 yards or something so not sure on that.
Thank you for making sense! This game wasn't played. The options are to either reschedule it or declare it a no contest. A tie was never an option and rescheduling this late in the season is challenging. No contest and then just let win percentages decide seeding and everything else is the only fair choice.
Win% is not a great metric. I like the idea I saw earlier for the perk draft, A team can choose one seed and get no bye or choose home field. Of course that only works if two teams are tied.
This is the perfect answer, all three teams will be in the playoffs, does it suck they don't have a shot at the number 1 seed? Absolutely, but given the circumstances I think they would be ok with this solution. No one gets knocked out because of this, it's just a matter of seeding.
One idea I've heard is that a way to get around them being screwed is to have the AFC championship in a neutral site. But it doesn't address the bye week for Buffalo/Cincinnati.
The live projection for my final before the Monday game was only about a 1.5 point difference. We're just calling it a tie and splitting the prize money
I was winning by 15 but projected to lose by 5.. We split the prize money also lol.
Edit: I had Allen playing and my opponent had Burrow/Chase/Bengals D
I had an 80 point lead on my opponent (quarter-PPR) who had Allen/Chase/non-Diggs Bills WR so at least he was big enough to admit "yeah I wasn't winning regardless"
My opponent admitted defeat before the game happened. He still had a 3% chance of winning, but he had Chase and I had Burrow and Bills kicker and was up by 20 so I had it. Still would have liked to see it actually happen tho :/
Different scenario since the game was ultimately played, but the NHL saw a unique situation where the goal scorer prior to the postponement wasn’t available for the makeup. He was still awarded the goal, which means he scored in a game that he didn’t officially play.
https://syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/2024862-blue-jackets-horton-becomes-first-player-with-goal-in-game-he-didnt-play.amp.html
There was a similar case in the NBA between teams, where a game was suspended in the middle of the game and resumed later that year.
Fun part is a guy was traded to the opposite team in the middle so he has stats for both teams in that game.
I was slightly off, it was a game that was protested successfully because a ref was throwing out technicals like Oprah throws out cars, and the game was determined to be unfair.
Guy's name was Eric Money.
Edit: so the game was played in full the first time, and then protested, and a portion replayed at a later date.
Probably what baseball does when a game is canceled. Pujols would’ve had 700+ homeruns earlier if some of his games weren’t rained out and not officially scored
I'm sure the union will get involved in that situation, but I imagine some number of performance based incentives would be prorated based on a 16-game season rather than 17.
Welp. Guess we’ll enjoy 3rd.
But hey, that’s how the cookie crumbles. Sorry Ravens but know we also got boned here. Probably the only way it could be done.
I don’t understand why our fans keep saying this like this isn’t one of the most volatile sports and the game on Sunday is a foregone conclusion. I get it, we’re not looking great right now but we’re not in last place and legitimately anything can happen in these divisional games.
Also all of this talk about deserving vs. not deserving the AFC North crown, I just can’t get it. It’s not like we’re 5-11 and hanging on because of some crazy tiebreakers or something. We’re legitimately a game and a half behind Cincinnati and if the Bills won on Monday, we’d be a game back. It’s not like we’re petitioning for some weird tiebreaker, we can end the season 2-0 over them with a win on Sunday that’s still possible.
Again, I get that the team hasn’t been as fun as 2019 and there’s all this contract drama and so on and so forth but you’d think we were the Texans the way people are sulking about this playoff berth and potential chance to win the division.
I mean, have you seen Tyler Huntley? We struggle to put up more than 10 points every week.
The defense can play lights out and we still probably need 20+ points to beat Cincy.
A division champion is possible affected by this. If Bills would have beaten the Bengals, the Ravens/Bengals game Sunday would have been for the division.
> A division champion is possible affected by this.
Which has an effect on at least the next two years, from a scheduling standpoint, potentially longer (though we’d never know) based on outcomes of those games.
> Any games between the three have to be at a neutral field.
At the same field, one after the other, March Madness style. I want a playoff game coming down to the wire with the players from the next game standing in the tunnel.
I know this is the last thing to be concerned about, but pretty rough break for over/under win bettors too huh? Or are they doing something about that that I don’t know about
Dolphins are playoff fucked (what’s new amirite). Doesn’t help that we just needed 1 win and we lost 5 in a row but still, this weekend won’t matter for us now.
Yeah, even as a Chiefs fan this doesn't feel good. The Bengals had a decent shot at that game. The Bills obviously did too. And it was going to be a great game to watch.
I agree that this makes more sense than any of the alternatives but it still sucks.
Just for fun, here are some possible locations:
|Matchup|Midpoint|Closest NFL Stadium|
|:-|:-|:-|
|Bills-Chiefs|Indianapolis, IN|Indianapolis (0 min)|
|Bills-Bengals|Medina, OH|Cleveland (37 min)|
|Chiefs-Bengals|Greenville, IL|Current: Indianpolis (2h55 min) Previously used: St. Louis (55 min)|
At first I missed Twitter and took offense, but then read it and…yeah. That’s a complete shithole on Twitter and you’re definitely right. Such a bad look from those fans for real.
Someone on Chiefs Twitter said, "Guys, it's ok to admit that the Chiefs are being gifted the #1 seed here. Take it with grace, we get the bye"
And they got fucking blasted for it. I hate Twitter so much
Its all good, I think the teams that played got equally boned, and would get further boned playing another game. I wish there was some way to just remove common opponents, like just don’t count bills games for Bengals and Ravens, and don’t count Bengals games for Bills and Chiefs, but what can you do. It’s either a tie or flip a coin.
Man this has got to be the worst way to win a fantasy championship. My opponent had Allen and only needed 5 more points. I think I'm just going to concede.
I didn't think of that but it does seem fair you get your entry back. Not crazy to think a crazy fucker like Josh Allen gets hurt before putting up 5. Id give you the benefit of the doubt, especially if you conceded. Just my two cents.
Or just split the pool 50/50.
That's what we did in our league. Combined the winnings of 1st and 2nd place and split it down the middle.
The guy that was winning agreed to do it as long as he was named champion lol. He was up by 30 but opponent had Josh Allen. Who's scored that many points in 6 games this season. So it's a tossup that he would've done it again.
It also helped decide draft order for next year.
Yeah that's fair and seems to be all of what we are thinking. Because it's so unprecedented and crazy, we all really like the charity idea and just get our entry fees back and be co champs.
A bunch of fantasy leagues are donating the winnings instead of awarding a championship in cases like that - just an idea in case neither of you feels good about claiming it.
Was it really that hard to push back Bills/Bengals to week 19, do NFC wildcard, then AFC wildcard week 20? The built in extra week before the super bowl is literally right there.
Perhaps the league received input from the Bills and Bengals players that they don’t want to resume this game. Likely why they are not resuming the game.
I wonder if they will reschedule some of this weekend's games. KC playing Saturday means Bills will know whether they are playing for 1 seed or not, which means if KC wins Bills may not try very hard against Patriots, which then kind of screws Dolphins, Steelers, and ~~Titans~~ Jaguars.
E: Jaguars still have a shot at 7th seed, not Titans
If they move the possible Buf-Cin playoff game to a neutral location the only difference between the seeds is who they play in the wildcard round. Tbh I don't really care about which team we face.
Titans can only get in by winning so this doesn’t change that.
Jags can get in if the win or if they lose as long as the Patriots and Dolphins lose as well so Bills not trying would screw them
What can they do? Rescheduling it would be a logistical nightmare at this point and cost the nfl billions of dollars + every playoff team would have a bye week going into the post season
Most of the matchups and locations haven't even been decided yet as they all depend on the games this weekend. I don't think it'd be that much of a logistical nightmare. They could also keep the super bowl at the same date by having AFC/NFC Championships on the pro bowl weekend.
I've posted about this numerous times, the only thing that was known prior to the start of the Bills-Bengals game was that the Vikings and the Bucs would have had home playoff game week1 of the playoffs, literally everything else was up in the air. Sure the Chiefs and the Bills were going to have home playoff games, but whether or not either team had a bye was in question, additionally even if you know who the home teams are, you don't know who's going to play them and given that home teams typically doesn't book hotels and travel for home games then there's literally nothing to reschedule. NFL stadiums don't have events planned during the NFL season so it's not like it would affect things outside of the NFL.
I'm sure they have their reasons for not pushing the playoffs back 1 week (would allow every other team an additional rest week) but the logistics dilemma is a problem that doesn't exist
Really it is. So many other options are logistical nightmares. This is the easiest and most straight forward path.
We may get a playoff rematch but trying to redo the game at this point seemed less and less likely
There's really no good option at this point, both teams kind of get an advantage since they didn't have to take the physical abuse of playing basically 1 more game than the other teams but if they played the game now it would be a huge disadvantage having the wear and tear closer to their next game so yeah I agree with you
Okay but pushing the playoffs back would
- Give every single playoff team, NFC and AFC, except for the Bills and Bengals, an extra bye week.
You'd also either have to
- Push the Super Bowl, one of the largest events of the year that's already undoubtably had planning going on for months
or
- Cancel the Pro Bowl and remove the extra week of prep/rest/media before the Super Bowl.
The first part is easily the bigger issue, but the second choice isn't insignificant either
I think they feel for the ripples it would cause it’s not worth the trouble.
And honestly it may be emotionally difficult for those two teams to play each other again
I work in events of varying sizes. The largest event I worked on is a 3 day convention with planning starting probably a year before the date and things really locked in and hard to move within two months of the weekend. I can't imagine, logistically, how impossibly difficult it would be to push a Super Bowl's worth of planning back a week.
So, is this official? Or is this "my best guess"?
Because I've seen so many "yeah this is what it's *going to be*" takes that I'm just waiting for official statements.
And even if this is true, this doesn't preclude a game being re-played later.
Fucks over everyone but the Chiefs, Pats, and Chargers. Other options are to tie (which hurts win %) or play the game and give the other teams bye weeks...which hurts way more
It's rough but hell..for either of our teams it makes a way better storyline if we win the superbowl
I was hoping they’d give the Bengals the win becuase
1. Bengals were winning when the game ended
2. Bengals had the ball when the game ended
3. The Bills *injury* caused the suspension of the game. (I’m well aware of how fucked up this is. But it’s the same logic as an injury timeout)
So how you decide tickets for two sold out fanbases if they go the neutral site route for playoff games? If you thought Taylor Swift was a shitshow, just wait
I don’t agree with the neutral site proposal so I hope it doesn’t come to that. It seems really subjective to provide accommodations for one seeding issue but not another (Ravens automatically losing division), and I could easily see the same situation in the future leading to even more complicated playoff implications. I think the less subjectivity the better
So tie or game never happened? *thanks for explaining!
Game never happened
Can they do the same thing for us? Not one game in particular, but the whole season?
Broncos country, let's hide.
We came, we saw, we died.
Do we get to keep let’s ride quote?
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Mr Wilson I don't feel so good
Broncos Country - back inside
Broncos Country, [Redacted]
Broncos Country, let's override.
God the second hand embarassment
Broncos Country - let’s rewind
They did it for Super Bowl 48, I don't think they'd do it twice.
Stop the count...of losses ....at 0.
##What game? 😉
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Error 404: game not found
There is no game in ba sing se
There is no game in Ba Sing Se.
And we've always been at war with Eastasia
Roger Goodell has invited you to Lake Laogai
Im always giddy seeing TLA references here.
"Doesn't look like anything to me"
How does that affect Allen and Burrow's stats?
I believe they will all be erased
They basically played 16 games
Pfft, just like the NFL to sweep something like this under the rug and pretend it never happened /s
Never happened, a tie would lower the win %, this would keep them the same
And I'm assuming stats from the game will not count It also means Vegas/books will have to probably void all over/under bets regarding those games
They were already voided. I had the over
Sorry. I meant season long ones
Ah gotcha. Yeah I imagine those would have to get voided. There’s usually fine print on your receipt about what happens if a game is not finished, has no result, etc. But I’ve never made a season long bet like Burrow over 4500 yards or something so not sure on that.
Ya. Its interesting bc I wonder if theyll pay out overs that already hit.
People were saying they already paid out for Boyd TD
Fanduel payed out Boyd TD, also refunded me Higgins anytime TD and the over on the game.
Sir, that's too many bets for one game
A tie also really doesn't make sense as that is an actual game result. The game wasn't completed and wasn't a tie when it ended.
Thank you for making sense! This game wasn't played. The options are to either reschedule it or declare it a no contest. A tie was never an option and rescheduling this late in the season is challenging. No contest and then just let win percentages decide seeding and everything else is the only fair choice.
Win% is not a great metric. I like the idea I saw earlier for the perk draft, A team can choose one seed and get no bye or choose home field. Of course that only works if two teams are tied.
That's way more interesting, but I don't think that will happen.
No contest, as in it didn’t have an ending result.
F5
I think this was largely decided right away, the NFL was just waiting for health updates like the one this morning to announce it
Yeah seems likely, that or hoping for very positive updates Monday / Tuesday for a resumed game. That obviously didn't happen
I kind of doubt that one since Buffalo flew back the night of
It's like a 1 hour flight. Good news Tuesday morn could mean game on Tues night or Wednesday
Yeah, it’s kind of the only way to not get everyone angry. It screws the Bills/Ravens/Bengals but hey, at least all will be in the playoffs anyway.
The NFC/AFC wildcard split with Bengals-Bills along with the NFC seemed like the best option to me. Especially now with positive developments.
100%. I would have loved an extra weekend of games to watch. 4 games one week, then 3, then 4, 2 and the super bowl with no weeks off.
This is the perfect answer, all three teams will be in the playoffs, does it suck they don't have a shot at the number 1 seed? Absolutely, but given the circumstances I think they would be ok with this solution. No one gets knocked out because of this, it's just a matter of seeding.
One idea I've heard is that a way to get around them being screwed is to have the AFC championship in a neutral site. But it doesn't address the bye week for Buffalo/Cincinnati.
It screws the Steelers too. Allen likely resting this week
That’s screws the fins more than the Steelers.
i don't care about playoffs, i just want the 9-8 for the Tomlin never below .500 bit to remain
Realistically, the odds of Lamar coming back for these playoffs are slim to none, and if he's out they're screwed regardless.
A billion fantasy football owners are about to lose their collective shit.
The live projection for my final before the Monday game was only about a 1.5 point difference. We're just calling it a tie and splitting the prize money
I was winning by 15 but projected to lose by 5.. We split the prize money also lol. Edit: I had Allen playing and my opponent had Burrow/Chase/Bengals D
Our league is taking player results from week 18 and applying it to week 17. Both teams in the championship had 2 or 3 players each in this game.
Half* Considering half win because of it.
Sure, but it's not half of what he said. If there were two billion fantasy football owners then he's correct.
But, not everyone has a bills or bengals player.
You forgot the commissioners who have to deal with the bs
You mean me, a commissioner who VERY much is dealing with this and it fucking sucks.
As a fellow commissioner I'm honestly kind of relieved that my team was the one screwed over by this.
Thanos is pleased
I had an 80 point lead on my opponent (quarter-PPR) who had Allen/Chase/non-Diggs Bills WR so at least he was big enough to admit "yeah I wasn't winning regardless"
My opponent admitted defeat before the game happened. He still had a 3% chance of winning, but he had Chase and I had Burrow and Bills kicker and was up by 20 so I had it. Still would have liked to see it actually happen tho :/
That’s the game. Fantasy football is a crapshoot anyway.
It is a crapshoot but having multiple top 5 at their position players’ game getting cancelled is not someone ever expects
RIP to Joe Burrow's new franchise record in passing touchdowns
Well now he can do it in 16 games instead of 17 so it'll be even more impressive.
Hopefully he plays long enough in the game this weekend to get one.
That is interesting, what do they do about the stats accumulated.
They give them to Tom Brady
And suspend him four games
Then fine the Pat's, just because.
HE CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT
Different scenario since the game was ultimately played, but the NHL saw a unique situation where the goal scorer prior to the postponement wasn’t available for the makeup. He was still awarded the goal, which means he scored in a game that he didn’t officially play. https://syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/2024862-blue-jackets-horton-becomes-first-player-with-goal-in-game-he-didnt-play.amp.html
There was a similar case in the NBA between teams, where a game was suspended in the middle of the game and resumed later that year. Fun part is a guy was traded to the opposite team in the middle so he has stats for both teams in that game.
That’s incredible who was he?
I was slightly off, it was a game that was protested successfully because a ref was throwing out technicals like Oprah throws out cars, and the game was determined to be unfair. Guy's name was Eric Money. Edit: so the game was played in full the first time, and then protested, and a portion replayed at a later date.
Yep, weirdly enough it was the game in which Rich Peverley collapsed on bench after his heart stopped.
They get rid of them. Once declared a NC, for the purposes of record keeping it's like the first 10 minutes of that game never happened
Probably what baseball does when a game is canceled. Pujols would’ve had 700+ homeruns earlier if some of his games weren’t rained out and not officially scored
it doesn’t count
And player contract incentives.
I'm sure the union will get involved in that situation, but I imagine some number of performance based incentives would be prorated based on a 16-game season rather than 17.
Welp. Guess we’ll enjoy 3rd. But hey, that’s how the cookie crumbles. Sorry Ravens but know we also got boned here. Probably the only way it could be done.
I would be significantly more upset if i wasn't supremely confident that we will be losing by 50 on Sunday
Yeah...that's not gonna be a fun one to watch.
Hey, you’ll see us soon enough if we match up in the playoffs. And thanks for understanding.
You are my third least favorite AFCN team.
That… is high praise.
I sure wish I had your confidence.
Old bengals fans know better than to have confidence!
I don’t understand why our fans keep saying this like this isn’t one of the most volatile sports and the game on Sunday is a foregone conclusion. I get it, we’re not looking great right now but we’re not in last place and legitimately anything can happen in these divisional games. Also all of this talk about deserving vs. not deserving the AFC North crown, I just can’t get it. It’s not like we’re 5-11 and hanging on because of some crazy tiebreakers or something. We’re legitimately a game and a half behind Cincinnati and if the Bills won on Monday, we’d be a game back. It’s not like we’re petitioning for some weird tiebreaker, we can end the season 2-0 over them with a win on Sunday that’s still possible. Again, I get that the team hasn’t been as fun as 2019 and there’s all this contract drama and so on and so forth but you’d think we were the Texans the way people are sulking about this playoff berth and potential chance to win the division.
I mean, have you seen Tyler Huntley? We struggle to put up more than 10 points every week. The defense can play lights out and we still probably need 20+ points to beat Cincy.
The NFL is lucky that only seeding is affected by this. Imagine if this were the difference between one of the teams being eliminated or not.
A division champion is possible affected by this. If Bills would have beaten the Bengals, the Ravens/Bengals game Sunday would have been for the division.
> A division champion is possible affected by this. Which has an effect on at least the next two years, from a scheduling standpoint, potentially longer (though we’d never know) based on outcomes of those games.
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> Any games between the three have to be at a neutral field. At the same field, one after the other, March Madness style. I want a playoff game coming down to the wire with the players from the next game standing in the tunnel.
Fuck yeah
I know this is the last thing to be concerned about, but pretty rough break for over/under win bettors too huh? Or are they doing something about that that I don’t know about
Some books even have a caveat of requiring 17 games played. I won't be surprised if they void winning over bets that hit anyway.
Those caveats generally only apply if the missung game(s) could affect the bet. The bengals and Bills have already hit their overs.
They'll just void the tickets I'd imagine
Dolphins are playoff fucked (what’s new amirite). Doesn’t help that we just needed 1 win and we lost 5 in a row but still, this weekend won’t matter for us now.
Yeah, even as a Chiefs fan this doesn't feel good. The Bengals had a decent shot at that game. The Bills obviously did too. And it was going to be a great game to watch. I agree that this makes more sense than any of the alternatives but it still sucks.
The one thing they should add/change is that if Buffalo and cincy meet in the playoffs it should be neutral site.
Just for fun, here are some possible locations: |Matchup|Midpoint|Closest NFL Stadium| |:-|:-|:-| |Bills-Chiefs|Indianapolis, IN|Indianapolis (0 min)| |Bills-Bengals|Medina, OH|Cleveland (37 min)| |Chiefs-Bengals|Greenville, IL|Current: Indianpolis (2h55 min) Previously used: St. Louis (55 min)|
Everyone but the Chiefs gets boned here.
Patriots actually get a benefit too, since the Chiefs game is happening on Saturday, if they win the Bills won't have much to play for.
Which in turn screws Pittsburgh.
Bills will be playing for the 2 seed, which at least means homefield advantage if they have to play a lower seed at any point.
The bills are still gonna try to beat the pats. They fucking hate the pats and would love to keep them out of the playoffs
Chiefs twitter will still find a way to be the victim however.
At first I missed Twitter and took offense, but then read it and…yeah. That’s a complete shithole on Twitter and you’re definitely right. Such a bad look from those fans for real.
> That’s ~~a complete shithole on~~ Twitter
You right
Someone on Chiefs Twitter said, "Guys, it's ok to admit that the Chiefs are being gifted the #1 seed here. Take it with grace, we get the bye" And they got fucking blasted for it. I hate Twitter so much
Bengals should smoke the ravens without Lamar anyway
Its all good, I think the teams that played got equally boned, and would get further boned playing another game. I wish there was some way to just remove common opponents, like just don’t count bills games for Bengals and Ravens, and don’t count Bengals games for Bills and Chiefs, but what can you do. It’s either a tie or flip a coin.
Buffalo can still lose to New England, then we'd get the 2 seed with a victory over Baltimore.
Yep, now if we win first round we have to go to Buffalo in mid January.
Meh, it’s not like we’re winning anything without Lamar either way anyway lol
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Lamar is probably not playing again this season, which means we're gonna get ass-blasted in the wild card round anyway, homefield or not.
Does that mean he’s done as a raven or will they still tag him?
Man this has got to be the worst way to win a fantasy championship. My opponent had Allen and only needed 5 more points. I think I'm just going to concede.
I was down 23 with only Allen left. When the injury happened we agreed to be co champs and split the total pot.
That's the right thing to do tbh.
Yeah I just messaged our commissioner. We may do something and call it a no contest, get our entry fee back, and donate the rest.
I didn't think of that but it does seem fair you get your entry back. Not crazy to think a crazy fucker like Josh Allen gets hurt before putting up 5. Id give you the benefit of the doubt, especially if you conceded. Just my two cents.
Or just split the pool 50/50. That's what we did in our league. Combined the winnings of 1st and 2nd place and split it down the middle. The guy that was winning agreed to do it as long as he was named champion lol. He was up by 30 but opponent had Josh Allen. Who's scored that many points in 6 games this season. So it's a tossup that he would've done it again. It also helped decide draft order for next year.
Glad to hear it. That seems like a fair tradeoff. Split the money and let him get the pick.
Yeah that's fair and seems to be all of what we are thinking. Because it's so unprecedented and crazy, we all really like the charity idea and just get our entry fees back and be co champs.
forget that bro just take the W
Just use week 18 pts for those players
A bunch of fantasy leagues are donating the winnings instead of awarding a championship in cases like that - just an idea in case neither of you feels good about claiming it.
And both teams will be clapping in the background when this is announced
No we won’t
[This](https://tenor.com/view/no-contest-super-smash-brothers-tie-draw-stalemate-gif-26556737) was what I was referring to
That’s hilarious I heard that perfectly in my head
Oh lmao my bad
I was expecting to see N64 graphics here. I’m old.
Was it really that hard to push back Bills/Bengals to week 19, do NFC wildcard, then AFC wildcard week 20? The built in extra week before the super bowl is literally right there.
Perhaps the league received input from the Bills and Bengals players that they don’t want to resume this game. Likely why they are not resuming the game.
Burrow said the Bengals want what the Bills want. Sounded like they got input from coaches/players about playing it.
I wonder if they will reschedule some of this weekend's games. KC playing Saturday means Bills will know whether they are playing for 1 seed or not, which means if KC wins Bills may not try very hard against Patriots, which then kind of screws Dolphins, Steelers, and ~~Titans~~ Jaguars. E: Jaguars still have a shot at 7th seed, not Titans
Buffalo would be the 3 seed if they lose + Cincy wins this Sunday. They play at the same time so I don’t think they’ll try to rest players really
If they move the possible Buf-Cin playoff game to a neutral location the only difference between the seeds is who they play in the wildcard round. Tbh I don't really care about which team we face.
Titans can only get in by winning so this doesn’t change that. Jags can get in if the win or if they lose as long as the Patriots and Dolphins lose as well so Bills not trying would screw them
I understand the severity of the injury but I feel this is a mistake.
What can they do? Rescheduling it would be a logistical nightmare at this point and cost the nfl billions of dollars + every playoff team would have a bye week going into the post season
Most of the matchups and locations haven't even been decided yet as they all depend on the games this weekend. I don't think it'd be that much of a logistical nightmare. They could also keep the super bowl at the same date by having AFC/NFC Championships on the pro bowl weekend.
but I made plans to hang out with my mom that weekend specifically because there was no football on. talk about a logistical nightmare!
I've posted about this numerous times, the only thing that was known prior to the start of the Bills-Bengals game was that the Vikings and the Bucs would have had home playoff game week1 of the playoffs, literally everything else was up in the air. Sure the Chiefs and the Bills were going to have home playoff games, but whether or not either team had a bye was in question, additionally even if you know who the home teams are, you don't know who's going to play them and given that home teams typically doesn't book hotels and travel for home games then there's literally nothing to reschedule. NFL stadiums don't have events planned during the NFL season so it's not like it would affect things outside of the NFL. I'm sure they have their reasons for not pushing the playoffs back 1 week (would allow every other team an additional rest week) but the logistics dilemma is a problem that doesn't exist
Only really logical outcome.
Yep. Everything else fucked the whole postseason schedule. I still support a neutral site Chiefs/Bills or Bills/Bengals game if it comes to it
And if the Chiefs lose this weekend it should seriously be neutral Chiefs/Bengals if it comes to it too.
Absolutely.
100%. I feel we should do as much as we can to try and even what we can here. Just out of respect to both the Bills and the Bengals.
Hopefully the league does this. I think all three fan bases would understand. Otherwise, it would seem to hurt the two teams most affected.
This may be unpopular but I think if the bills and bengals meet in the playoffs, it should be in Cincinnati
I honestly don't get why resuming the game is so hard
Really it is. So many other options are logistical nightmares. This is the easiest and most straight forward path. We may get a playoff rematch but trying to redo the game at this point seemed less and less likely
I don't like it but I understand it
There's really no good option at this point, both teams kind of get an advantage since they didn't have to take the physical abuse of playing basically 1 more game than the other teams but if they played the game now it would be a huge disadvantage having the wear and tear closer to their next game so yeah I agree with you
I still don't understand why they just can't move the game to next week and then push back the playoffs by a week
Because pushing the playoffs isn't an easy task at all
They're literally not even scheduled yet because it depends on seeding, so it's not as crazy as it sounds.
Okay but pushing the playoffs back would - Give every single playoff team, NFC and AFC, except for the Bills and Bengals, an extra bye week. You'd also either have to - Push the Super Bowl, one of the largest events of the year that's already undoubtably had planning going on for months or - Cancel the Pro Bowl and remove the extra week of prep/rest/media before the Super Bowl. The first part is easily the bigger issue, but the second choice isn't insignificant either
I think they feel for the ripples it would cause it’s not worth the trouble. And honestly it may be emotionally difficult for those two teams to play each other again
I know this isn’t exactly what you’re saying, but if the chiefs win this week it’s very likely bengals bills play in the playoffs.
I work in events of varying sizes. The largest event I worked on is a 3 day convention with planning starting probably a year before the date and things really locked in and hard to move within two months of the weekend. I can't imagine, logistically, how impossibly difficult it would be to push a Super Bowl's worth of planning back a week.
This sounds like an announcement that can only be made by WWF President Jack Tunney
So, is this official? Or is this "my best guess"? Because I've seen so many "yeah this is what it's *going to be*" takes that I'm just waiting for official statements. And even if this is true, this doesn't preclude a game being re-played later.
This really fucks over the Bengals and I’m not happy about it.
Fucks over everyone but the Chiefs, Pats, and Chargers. Other options are to tie (which hurts win %) or play the game and give the other teams bye weeks...which hurts way more It's rough but hell..for either of our teams it makes a way better storyline if we win the superbowl
If it’s not us, I hope it’s you guys.
I was hoping they’d give the Bengals the win becuase 1. Bengals were winning when the game ended 2. Bengals had the ball when the game ended 3. The Bills *injury* caused the suspension of the game. (I’m well aware of how fucked up this is. But it’s the same logic as an injury timeout)
I know it sucks but at least you guys are in the post season with a good team. It's always nice to be in that position.
Congratulations to the Chiefs on the #1 seed. Apologies to the Bengals for getting fucked. And cool, I guess, to wherever we fall.
This is the worst decision lol
How are they going to go about the Ravens? This seems unfair
I thought "No Contest" was a Smash Brothers term.
The nfl rules are based on smash rules
Does this mean it’ll be the 1 seed picks between a bye and home field in the AFC Championship and the 2 seed gets the other?
So does that mean the stats from the game don't count then? Like Burrows TD to Boyd is void now?
So how you decide tickets for two sold out fanbases if they go the neutral site route for playoff games? If you thought Taylor Swift was a shitshow, just wait
I don’t agree with the neutral site proposal so I hope it doesn’t come to that. It seems really subjective to provide accommodations for one seeding issue but not another (Ravens automatically losing division), and I could easily see the same situation in the future leading to even more complicated playoff implications. I think the less subjectivity the better
As a neutral, I think Cincinnati should be credited with a win
Chiefs 1 seed (assuming they win) and a neutral site for AFC Championship game is a decent decision honestly
How do they decide which of Bills/Bengals get the 2 seed for easy first round matchup and home divisional game?
Elaborate on why the afc championship should be neutral. Shouldn't it matter which teams are playing?