Bills and Chiefs common opponents are Bengals, Titans and Rams.

If games are deducted from Chiefs and Bills records, why not all common opponents since Bills did not have to risk losing to Bengals?

So if this absurd thing actually happens and it picks a Chiefs home game can lobby for a refund on my tickets since it technically did not happen?

That solution is so absolutely unfair and convoluted that it’s not even close to realistic. How could you possibly justify that versus just simply flipping a single coin to decide the game last night and going from there?

This would be an unprecedented situation and there’s no reason to go for a solution that would have the least clarity and definable justification.

I’ll give 5:1 odds if anyone wants to bet on that outcome.

Just simulate the game on Madden.

That will satisfy everyone, even the fantasy football guys.

You have an extra week between conference title games and Super Bowl. Move the playoffs back a week and finish the Buffalo/Cincy game before playoffs.

Glad we called off the "Fire Toub, hire Colquitt to hold kicks" banner.

So let’s just take the top 7 in each division. Throw some balls in a hopper and chose the seeding.

Maybe the most anti-competitive proposal I’ve ever heard. We don’t even do that in our little leagues.

cdcox and I will be glad to simulate the game on Sandbox Simulations.

We'll just need a couple of days for cdcox to make some "updates" to the code.

Bengals will win the division even if they lose to the Ravens based off win %. Ravens 11-6 and Bengals 11-5. Even though Ravens beat them twice.

I would be steamed beyond belief. That would be straight up rigged. IDGAF what anybody says. Don't punish us because of what happened. Look, not being callous but they better not **** us with some bullshit!

Maybe they should simulate the game with an updated roster on Tecmo Super Bowl.

The game would take 15 minutes with no risk of injury.

Hell, they should just simulate the entire playoffs and Superbowl.

Let's say you're the Eagles and that makes for some legitimate rust concerns because your QB might play 1 game in a span of 6 weeks.

Not to mention the logistics, and how it would impact the SB.

There's no perfect solution. If the game were to be resumed, it needed to be this week. That ship has apparently sailed, so the only other option is to cancel it altogether.

Somewhere, Knowmo is giggling out of control......

they should settle it with a little rochambeau
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They'll meet in the divisional round, and the media will cream themselves.

They will play to see who gets a shot at the evil Kansas City Chiefs.

They needed to ****ing play the game Thursday. With that out the window, Buffalo should take a forfeit and we move along.

Because it wasn't Cincinnati saying they didn't want to play on Thursday.

It's so goddamn absurd that the league has let it come to this. Goodell's ability to ALWAYS make the wrong call absolutely astounds me.

Maybe move some games on AFC side, would be bad for broadcast partners to not play 4 of the wildcards games on time.

That's an interesting idea. Only AFC teams lose the week before the Superbowl.

Yeah the extra week is an advantage, but it's also a huge distraction. Seems like a pretty small advantage.

Goodell does a good job, it is like this universal reflex to always badmouth the guy like it is a way to fit into some secret society of mother****ers that do not know shit except how to try to fit into some groups of shitheads.

Has Goodell said anything about this?

Yea, resuming the game this week was always the best solution.

Now, the only thing that makes sense is to not play it at all.

Moving the postseason back a week for one game is reeruned.

Every other solution I'm hearing is also reeruned.

Oh look, the white knight coming to defend ______ (insert any random person that literally everybody else agrees is awful or at the very least clearly wrong)

Thank you for calling it what it is. I love how they phrased it as they have made their decision. They didn't. They punted that shit down the road so that they don't have to.

Bills don't want to play a resumed game, and league won't mess with all that. Bills only hope is this random coin flip thing that results from the league feeling pressured to favor them. I think the league is hoping Demar recovers fast enough that they can declare either NC or forfeit and move on.

Naw, the universal reflex always comes after Goodell makes a dumb decision. It's not only usually dumb, it's usually the worst decision possible. He has a knack for that.

all this could have been avoided by playing today or tomorrow. Total bumble****

In this scenario, does that drop the bills to #3 seed?

One player/one team should not cause this type of mass disruption to the league’s schedule.

Minimizing the disruption should be the priority and the easiest way to do that is to either give Buffalo a forfeit or call it a no contest and the Chiefs get the #1 seed with a win vs the Raiders.

Whatever asswipe.

Go ahead and badmouth Goodell to fit in to your group of shitheads that say shit they think they are supposed to say.

Are you OK with the insane proposal of randomly drawing a Chiefs game to label as No Contest? 81.25% chance of stealing a victory from KC.

I actually haven't badmouthed Goodell once.

That's not the point.

Regardless of how you feel about him, anybody with half a brain should be able to agree that the Goodell and the NFL dropped the ball here.

All they needed to do was say look, we understand that you don't want to play, but if that's the case, you're going to have to forfeit, because there's nothing short of that we can do to continue the season like it needs to be done.

Not playing the game this week is reeruned unless the game is going to be canceled, and the Chiefs get the 1 seed with a win on Sunday.

Moving the season back, trying to somehow fit the game in any other way after Thursday, flipping coins, etc. are all doubling down on a bad decision not to play the game in the first place.

All of this is moot though, because you're only chiming in to white knight some random loser yet again. It's a very obvious personality trait.

I'm sure their PR consultants made the call for them, cause let's face it, the outrage machine would have been out in full force. If the kid is ok as we all hope, they should have the latitude to move on.

Wasn't Goddell part of the concussion thing? Then the whole Kap situation, probably knew something about Gruden, Snyder, etc. It's really hard to argue he's done a good job handling these situations.

Of course not.

I say keep it simple… Chiefs get the #1 seed with a win vs the Raiders based on most wins and best winning %.

Or what? What are you going to do about it? What will anyone do about it? I'll tell you what they'll do, absolutely nothing. They'll just have to take it.

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According to the PFR WP generator, Cincy had a 70% chance of winning the game.

I think that's a little high, but at least 60 IMO.

I don’t think that’s great either. I want to see those teams finish the game. It had potential to be a heck of a shootout.

Should have played Weds night, both Cincy & Buffalo's week 18 games go to Monday night!

The time for that has passed. Move on.

You have got to be kidding.

NFL has already been badmouthed by all of the assholes in media and social media that see every thing that hits the news as an opportunity to shame others to feel superior and show no mercy or grace to anybody at all.

And is there some rule that says Commissioner has sole authority to make any decision affecting the rules for playoff qualification if anything unusual happens.

Seems like more folks would have a say on what course to choose.

If they replayed the game would the score and time start over or would they continue where it was left at?

Start from the catch Tee Higgins made.

No reason to start at 0-0 when everything was recorded on video. We know the score, the time, the location of the ball, etc.

if they replayed the game they would start over if they continued the game they would continue where they left off

I just assumed they’d pick up where they left off. Game was suspended, and any language around it starting up again has used the word “resumed”.

Outrageously stupid stuff here, but I would never put anything past the NFL to generate the outcome or matchups they prefer. Competitive fairness isn't the goal for it.

He's wrong as **** all the time. It's why Queefadilla Joe loves him.

Goodell and the NFL were gutless today in making the decision they did. Just wanted to avoid a short term PR hit (although all it will lead to is this remaining an issue much longer for them).

if they can find a way to screw KC they will, it's why gay missed the bills game

this. the fact it wasnt is a major **** up

it's unbelievable really

If the game is resumed, are teams only going to be use players who were on the active roster Monday night? The Bills suffered a few injuries, are they going to be able to bring up a few players off the practice squad? Not mentioning if players get hurt week 18. It will be interested to see.

It's not fair to punish any other teams for a game they weren't involved in. A draw would not be fair to Cincinnati. They had the lead when play was suspended. Rescheduling an entire week of football is not a practical solution. The only answer that makes sense at this point is a forfeit.

Yep. The Bills were likely to lose last night anyway. It was the most likely outcome before the game, and what transpired only reinforced that. Cincinnati’s offense was doing whatever they wanted.

IF the Bills are so concerned about the seeding, they’d finish the game at some point. No way the NFL refuses to complete the game. Hell, they wanted to finish it last night. If the game is never completed, they should be forced to forfeit. It’s the only fair solution. If their focus is solely on their injured comrade, then they shouldn’t be outraged over seeding anyway.

The likeliest scenario, prior to this, was KC getting the 1 seed. And as of today they are the 1. It will be a joke if they’re robbed due to some horrible intervention.

I still like the idea of doing a 1 year playoff expansion to 10 teams.

Give top two seeds a bye like how it used to be.

IF Bills want to forfeit both games to give players time mentally. Then adding three more WC spots doesn't screw up the Pats getting in automatically because the Bills forfeit. Players/Owners/TV everyone would make more money expanding the playoffs.

Then Bengals can't complain about WHAT IF Chiefs don't win and they can get that #1 seed because yes they might still only get the #2 seed BUT they do get a bye week which would be a good compromise regardless if KC beats Raiders.

This would mean that on the AFC side, the Steelers, Jets and Phins would get into the playoffs. Thats a lot of TV ratings IMO

Would look kinda like this:

#1-KC Bye
#2-Cinzy Bye

#3-Bills vs #10(Phins or Steelers or Jets)
#4-Jags vs #9(Phins or Steelers or Jets)
#5-Chargers vs #8(Phins or Steelers or Jets)
#6-Ravens vs #7-Pats

Yes its crazy but damn that would make for a very exciting Playoffs! Looks like on the NFC side teams like Seattle, Lions and Saints might be the 3 extras. Makes the Bucs getting the #4 seed with maybe a 8-9 record not taste so bad.

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Hhhmm, actually soft and a..., sort of gelatinous...

Obviously, the Bills would start the rematch down 3.







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The Bills just sitting back chilling and letting this play out right now is bush league. Forfeit.

Are you giving KC and Cincy TWO bye weeks each because you’d have 6 teams left playing after the Wildcard round. How does that work?

Exactly what I was thinking LMAO

EVERYONE SHOULD MAKE THE PLAYOFFS MARCH MADNESS STYLE

Lol damn your right. 10 teams wouldn’t work

So the only way that works is if the top teams get 2 byes....so you didn't think that through

8 teams no bye or the game is a no contest...only plausible outcomes

now allbright deleted his tweet, claiming he was misinterpeted LMAO

I mostly want to know if, should Patrick Mahomes suffer an in jury in say week 12 one season and be forced to miss 4 games, should we expand the playoffs to ensure the Chiefs get a spot? I mean that has a far greater impact on the competitive balance of the league than this will.

It's unthinkable to me that the ideas put forward have gotten progressively worse over the last 12 hours and yet...here we are.

An NFL Skills competition next Monday between Allen, Mahomes and Burrow makes more sense than about 90% of what's been suggested to this point and would be DAMN entertaining.

So many idiots, so little time.

I could see them eliminating the bye by adding an 8th playoff team, to lessen the advantage of the 1 seed. Not advocating it, but I could see it.

Anything outside of Denver is out of his league.

That is one of the few things to make sense but it rewards teams who deserve jack shit too

You can't play 17 weeks and then just change the goddamn playoff format, people.

What in the **** are we talking about here?

This isn't a garage league, folks. There are BILLIONS of dollars in play every week. And 32 independent billion dollar entities that have made decisions based on their ability to get in/not get in to the playoffs.

Adding a playoff team the WEEK before the playoffs start is absolutely not going to happen.

But but but you know they see the dollar signs and an excuse to do so....

You can't change the format of the playoffs in the middle of the season. If one team isn't able to play for any reason, they need to forfeit. Period.

if you “could see” that you are dumb

Nope not happening. The entire format doesn’t get disrupted over one player.

You can't change the rules to get in, either. If they don't restart and finish this game, Buffalo needs to forfeit.

Unless the only way to play that game is to push the playoffs back a week.

They had their chance, and it's over.

Haha realized how ridiculous it was. But thought it came from league circles?

Guessing he recognized how outrageously stupid it read. If that was a real thing he'd heard, though, you'd think he'd have stood by it.