You've gotta be ****ing kidding me.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Troy Vincent doesn&#39;t rule out a potentially postponement of Sunday&#39;s Patriots-Bills game, if Buffalo isn&#39;t ready to play following the events of Monday night. <a href="https://t.co/cVtsEh5KuG">https://t.co/cVtsEh5KuG</a></p>&mdash; ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProFootballTalk/status/1610747212031574016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 4, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Who cares they quit, quitters never win

I don't think so.

If they both win this weekend, the Bills would be a game up, but a Bengals win would give them the 2 seed via head to head.

Hosting divisional would be something to play for.

What scenario on this Sunday's results make Bengals not have something to play for if the suspended game is played?

Even if Bengals lost to Ravens, Bengals win AFC North by beating Bills.

Every other scenario would be for higher seed between Bills and Bengals.

Yeah you're right. For some reason I thought the Bengals had 5 losses.

I've done the training but fortunately no. I do remember the mannequin they used had like something in the chest that you would feel if you were doing the compressions right. I'm 200 lbs and had to put my body weight into it and the instructor specifically said that if you do CPR correctly, it's extremely likely you'll have to break multiple ribs on the person receiving it to do it correctly.

So yeah, extremely happy I've never had to put the training to use.

Buffalo has to forfeit in that situation.

There is no other solution.

You can't delay two games. And you can't hold up the rest of the league for Buffalo forever.

If you are the NFL it is very simple:

"We'll see your asses on that field Sunday or else you're getting a loss."

Yeah screw that. Play or forfeit.

**** that. In that case, give them 2 forfeits.

Why would this even be a consideration if the Bills want to play.

How long are we going to pretend that at least some members of the Bills don't want to play?

Good lord

I did not see this posted but the Chiefs seeding may be determined by ping-pong balls (ala draft lottery).

https://www.kansascity.com/sports/sp...270736082.html

Chiefs would get HFA if the league draws a 3, 6, or 13 (weeks KC lost).

There are lots of reasonable solutions to all of this, but this idea is definitely one of the worst.

Good lord. :facepalm:

Can the league coddle the soft ass Bills any more??


This is getting pathetic.

I would bet that won’t happen. The Bills will need to nut up or deal with the consequences.

This is like those methods from colonial America where a Mayor's seat is decided by an alligator race.

“fAke nEwS!” According to a certain dumbshit who has spent the past two days humiliating itself in this thread LMAO

Pick a random game and it doesn't count? So 13 chances a win doesn't count and 3 a loss doesn't count. The Bills had a 60 percent chance to lose when the game was stopped.

In what world is THIS fair ROFL no wonder Bills fans SUPPORT these ideas.

We should move the playoffs back 2 weeks so the Bills can play the Patriots and Bengals later!

If the Bills say they don't want to play this Sunday then that's fine.

But they need to understand by doing so that they're voluntarily forfeiting any possibility at the one seed.

In that scenario, odds are the Chiefs don't get the #1 seed.

I'd say the odds of the the Bengals winning the other night were pretty good.

That would suck, but someone is getting ****ed here either way. I kinda think you guys are fooling yourselves if you think they're just gonna give the Chiefs the #1 seed with a "no contest" and be done with it.

I actually like that idea.

Doesn’t surprise me.

Buffalo still hasn’t practiced. They spent yesterday in team meetings to go over trauma and resolutions.

Its been pathetic since Tuesday morning. Just a colossal pile of nonsense that keeps feeding on itself.

Agree.

What if Hamlin's condition is exactly what it is today in two weeks when the playoffs begin. Are the Bills not going to play a playoff game? I mean come on now. There is no reason that the Week 18 games can't be played. If Buffalo doesn't want to play they can forfeit, and it won't really hurt their playoff seeding. But to pause the entire league because something happened on the field of play is odd. I don't have a problem with how things went down on Monday night, but you can't let any incident halt the season, let alone the playoffs.

This is ridiculous at this point. The Bills could have played Thursday and Monday. They didn't want to, so the gane is either a forfeit or no contest. The NE game would be a forfeit

I thought I read that they had a walk through today?

So how long is the rest of the league expected to wait for Buffalo to be done with their bereavement leave?

The bills should just forfeit the remainder of the season. Go home.

This entire situation is just too much for them to endure. I mean, who can focus on playoffs with this looming over them. This sort of trauma doesn't just go away in a week.

It's the right thing to do. For the players.

Nah **** it, just cancel the season.

Typical leave for a death of a family member in the US us only 3 days yet we're supposed to just shut up and support the Bills not wanting to go to work? And that's an immediate family member and actually dying. Most don't get anything for aunts uncles cousins...etc and are expected to show up to work.

So no I don't have sympathy for the legions of crying Bills fans on twatter

I brought this up earlier:

If this had happened in practice how would the scenario play out?

The Bills players would be just a traumatized. Hamlin holding on for life is just as tragic.

Would the NFL even consider moving schedules around?

And nobody died.

It looks like Buffalo is not too depressed to continue with the business of cutting players…

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bills?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Bills</a> have released CB Xavier Rhodes.</p>&mdash; Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) <a href="https://twitter.com/MySportsUpdate/status/1610750549506363392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 4, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

FYP

I have a tremendous amount of empathy for them. It sucks, it really does.


What ever happened to getting back to work to take you mind off things? I'd be going batshit crazy sitting at home like they are.

That's only going to make things 10000 times worse.

Bills fans are pure trash for wanting their team to carry on the remainder of the season.

They even have a thread on their trash forum discussing the #1 Seed.

How can those trashy fans even THINK about playoff seeding with what their players are enduring right now?

You’re right, just saw that.

“Xavier, I know that this traumatic event is going to make it very difficult for you to ever take that field again…so we’re going to make this much easier on you.”

-Bills front office (probably)

Not a small detail to this situation.

The real question is should football ever be played again at any level?

Who would have thought that the players on a team located in a city where the fans jump off of buses to break tables and throw dildos on the field would be too soft to play a football game 6 days after one of their teammates gets injured?

SHAME. SHAME on them.

If you read the whole PFT article they said they have had no discussions about it. I would think that setting the game time means they are going to play.

What do you want your team to do, JDL?

At this point it's pretty obvious.

I'm burning my 5 year old son's Nerf football as we speak.

If he says anything other than forfeit the remainder of the season, then he's a trashy human being who doesn't care about the trauma Bills players are enduring.

False narrative

Exactly

Some talking heads are now saying he died on the field and was brought back to life. I kid you not.

Uh.

Gat dam

I want them to move the flip on! And i’m probably close to being banned at the Bills forum for saying it.

I understand and was in agreement with them stopping play on Monday. But it’s going to be Thursday in less than 8 hours. If they want to win a Super Bowl then it’s time to get back to practice and move on.

I also want the league to just call the game a no contest and move on. Just rip the bandaid off.

KC gets 1 seed. Bills get 2 seed. Cinci gets 3 seed. (assuming all win)

Football Jesus? Too soon?

It's going to be fun on here when a wrench gets thrown in the plan to screw it up even more! LMAO

Rep applied

Win one for the Gipper has turned into Forfeit one for the Hamlin

That's Tebow's title.

OMG You're a disgusting piece of San Francisco sidewalk shit.

(Just holding you to your fellow Bill's fans standards, you disgusting inbred piece of garbage)

Buffalo players asking if they can take an extended bereavement leave for an almost death.

League should just give Buffalo this year's Lombardi. Maybe next year's too.

And no more football should be played until the Bills are ready for someone to play football again. It's just too soon.

Oh I know, i’ve been told all day.

Just holding him to the standard that Bills fans hold us to.

https://media3.giphy.com/media/xT4uQ...7BRK/giphy.gif

Not Buffalo…

https://billswire.usatoday.com/wp-co...0&h=600&crop=1

So someone not ruling something out is Buffalo communicating that they’re not going to be ready to play?

Did you really expect the head of the NFLPA to box the Bills into a corner?

****ing clown.

"Troy Vincent did not rule out the possibility of postponing the game. Just says that conversation has not come up yet. If they feel they have to do that for the players' and coaches' well being, they'll then address it," NFL Network's Mike Garafolo tweeted.

So you think they should've finished the game that night?

I love how something taken out of context gets everyone here so riled up and angry.

You guys are just dying to be mad at something…anything.

Why is it even a question that Buffalo wouldn’t be ready to play the Faketriots on Sunday?

Explain.

Technically, he did. If you are pulseless and not breathing you are clinically dead.

We should change your name to BoldBraveBill

I personally think you should be onboard with doing the right thing and just forfeiting the rest of the season. Come back next season and take another run after the players have enough time to get their minds right.

For the betterment of the players, ya know?

I mean, surely you wouldn't want them going to and risk injuring themselves because they're too depressed to properly play.

What are you, a monster?

Of course they should have.

It’s an American sports tradition to go back out and compete for your fallen brethren.

Because they’re assuming as of now that the game will go on as planned while being respectful to the team for image reasons?

I'm sure you would've had that same opinion if that happened to Mahomes in a game with seeding implications...

Bills players negotiating unlimited paternity leave (ala Frank Clark) into their contracts before agreeing to play again.

It's going to be really tough with the flag fest we will witness Saturday night...

Worry not. If they can’t go this weekend they for sure will be ready by playoff time. It’s almost like the best thing for the NFL is to have KC lose and give Buffalo a pass on their last two games to “overcome” while still maintaining HFA. They then make the SB and win and they become a NFL films documentary about how they overcame impossible odds to win it all.

The only way to overcome it is to use the bat signal and get BlackOp to start the GDT. We need to fight their dark arts with our own black magic.

Just seems like every time I think this situation can't get any dumber, it does. And it's ****ing with the NFL playoffs in which my team will be participating in.

You're all wrong.

Bills just need to forfeit the playoffs. Just go home. Hand the division to Miami or NE.

This is clearly too traumatic to deal with. The trauma they experienced doesn't just heal in a matter of days or weeks.

Any of you Bills fan ****s who are still thinking about playoffs at all, let alone seeding, you're ****ing scum bags.