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Originally Posted by JustDiqLix (Post 16711571)

I'm still holding out hope for the Thunder dome option...

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The NFL continues to discuss and deliberate the unfinished Bills-Bengals game from Week 17.

Nothing is official yet. Here’s what we currently know.

Bills-Bengals most likely will not be played. The players don’t want to do it. And there’s no good way to fit it into the schedule.

The best bad solution in this regard would be to play the NFC wild-card round and Bills-Bengals next weekend, with the AFC wild-card round being played the next weekend. This would wipe out the week between the conference championships and the Super Bowl. There’s no appetite for that approach.

The question then becomes seeding the AFC playoffs without Bills-Bengals. Winning percentage becomes the most obvious method. But there are concerns about equity, given that the winner of the Bills-Bengals game would have been in position to be one of the top seed AFC seeds.

One possibility would be to add an eighth team to the playoff field in the AFC. This would eliminate the bye for the No. 1 seed.

To ensure competitive balance, there would have to be eight teams in the NFC, too.

The NFL Players Association would have to agree to a temporary expansion of the playoff field.

Discussions also are continuing on the possibility of making the AFC Championship a neutral-site game. The problem with this approach is that if, for example, a team other than the Bills, Chiefs, or Bengals qualifies for the game, there’s no need to use a neutral site.

However it plays out, a decision needs to be made soon — especially if the playoff field will unexpectedly grow, in both conferences. It changes the dynamics for the teams vying for playoff positioning.

EQUITY

there is that ****ing word again

**** turning the NFL into a communist paradise

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The players don’t want to do it.

It's almost like this was obvious the entire time!

If the "players don't want to do it" then the Chiefs should have the 1 seed, the bye, and HFA.

Yep.

Equity is a cuss word.

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Originally Posted by dirk digler (Post 16711586)

PFT

Again, all of this just makes the NFL look disorganized and indecisive. Why are all of these convoluted ideas on the table at all? If this game happened in Week 1, we wouldn't think twice about saying that the final results will be determined by win percentage. :shake:

Imagine being an Eagles fan and losing the first round bye then having to play either a hurt Jalen Hurts or Minshew against a team that shouldn’t even be in the playoffs.

I would prefer to remove a seed rather than add one, personally.

Give the top 2 seeds a bye like it had been for decades.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">adding an 8th playoff team at this point is absolutely insane<br><br>everything that teams did after week 16, thinking they were eliminated entering week 17, either benching players or putting guys on IR?<br><br>now they have a shot & should have tried to win last week? <br><br>makes no sense <a href="https://t.co/pfnqnSn2y2">https://t.co/pfnqnSn2y2</a></p>— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) <a href="https://twitter.com/SharpFootball/status/1611064370431201412?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

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Originally Posted by Hammock Parties (Post 16711590)

EQUITY

there is that ****ing word again

**** turning the NFL into a communist paradise

You aren't getting the 2023 NFL Playoffs Equity T-shirt?

Already ordered mine.

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Originally Posted by JustDiqLix (Post 16711596)

I would prefer to remove a seed rather than add one, personally.

Give the top 2 seeds a bye like it had been for decades.

I would agree, but there's no way in hell that will happen. Firstly, it removes a game from the schedule (read: $$$). But beyond that, fans of the teams on the bubble right now would be irate if they suddenly had nothing to play for this weekend.

yeah 8th teams aren't happening

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Titans benched everyone last week because game didn’t matter. If it ends up it would have mattered that would be very bad.</p>— Titan Travis (@Titantravis08) <a href="https://twitter.com/Titantravis08/status/1611064780592418816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

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Originally Posted by JustDiqLix (Post 16711596)

I would prefer to remove a seed rather than add one, personally.

Give the top 2 seeds a bye like it had been for decades.

But that would be removing 2 games from the playoffs. Major money. The NFL will sacrifice their first born before giving up a game check.

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Originally Posted by MahomesMagic (Post 16711524)

Bills had already lost another corner and their last decent coverage safety.

They were about to get destroyed.

The 2019 AFC playoffs and SB should have proven that is not set in stone. What if Burrow got hit and was out for the rest of the game? You can’t just guarantee a win for one team when the score is 7-3 midway through the 1st quarter.

chiefs play saturday, what happens if buffalo decides its not up to playing on sunday???