jesus christ here we go

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Schefter also said that the NFL is considering options such as allowing the No. 1 seed to pick home-field advantage OR a bye week. Another option (an AFC title game between two teams with a differing number of games) is a neutral site. No decision made yet. (2/2)</p>&mdash; Pete Sweeney (@pgsween) <a href="https://twitter.com/pgsween/status/1611033863332954119?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

ho ho ho...

Maybe you should go first, and I'll do something if you don't get destroyed.

No shit. When I read that I was just baffled.

LMAO

Post it here. If we know anything, it's that Chiefs fans (particularly those on cp) have great judgment

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that he'll be limited in practice.

So at no point is anybody gonna say "Hey fellas - they had no answer for Cincinnati that night....y'all saw that, right?"

Buffalo was going to lose that game and now we're just gonna pretend like that wasn't the case?

Man. **** that shit!

So Buffalo gets to dodge their loss to Cincy

You’d be talking about the loss of Chris Jones and how it affected us if he suffered an ACL tear and was out for the year.

Quit being a homer

Schefter also said that the NFL is considering options such as allowing the No. 1 seed to pick home-field advantage OR a bye week.


That's actually kind of an interesting compromise

Agreed, thank you, left out that part which is very interesting

BULLSHIT!

LMAO Just play the ****ing game week 19 and be done with it. This extra shit is asinine.

Lol no one knows how that game plays out

WTF are you talking about?

It's one thing to say the injury was a big loss, it's another to throw it in there with what happened to Hamlin as if it's some sort of unique adversity that they've had to deal with.

**** compromise.

There was no greater than a coin-flip chance they win that game going INTO it. And as the game was progressing it was pretty obvious that Cincy was on their game.

And Buffalo had the opportunity to step up and resume that game had they pursued it.

No, compromise is out the window. No-contest the thing and move along.

This limp-wristed 'leadership' by the NFL is just par for the course, man. What a bunch of crap.

JFC you're STILL ****ing that chicken?

It's not happening nor should it.

Bye week and neutral site would be more fair. Buffalo was on their way to losing that game. They don’t deserve home field advantage.

So from a public relations perspective, you can play an extra game or you can anger a lot of your hometown fans.

There is no question about his availability. He will not play again until at least next season if ever again.

Apparently.

It’s this new thing to force KC to not play and then gift Buffalo HFA because of trauma or something. There is no logic anymore, it’s all about the “feels”. What if Buffalo had played and lost? They would not have gotten HFA if KC beats LV. They want the seeding without having to earn it and blame KC if they don’t get it.

Huh? Each team for 1 drive. What do you mean as the game was progressing.

Oh well. Yet another lesson learned to take every ****ing week seriously and quit playing down to competition. Hopefully this one sticks.

King - I'm with you, bro, but this board won't have it. It's all-or-none at this point for most of the people here.

If we beat the Raiders, the #1 seed is ours in pristine condition or we were robbed.

I don't think the average NFL fan sees it remotely like that of course, but here we are.

Cincy offense was looking unstoppable. Buffalo had over a 50% chance of losing. It sure as hell was not over 50% chance of winning.

Since the Bengals are getting ****ed out of the two seed, a compromise should also be made if they play the Bills in the divisional round.

If they get home field advantage they'd have to play 4 games in the playoffs.

If I was the team picking, I'd pick the Bye week 100% of the time. You might have to play away 1 of the weeks, but rather that than having to play 3 games before making it to the Superbowl.

So in this situation if the Chiefs get the 1 seed they’d decide if they could:

A. Play during the WC but have HFA throughout the playoffs

or

B. Have the bye week but have to travel to Buffalo and possibly Cincinnati

Do I have that right?

You point? Chiefs O has looked great in a half and went to crap your point?

LMAO

The average fan hates or at the very least is sick of the Chiefs. Shocker!

Who gives a flying **** what the average fan thinks?

I think you very clearly take the bye, IMO.

Presumptively we'd still get HFA vs. the 3 seed (so i guess Cincinnati). And based on what we saw Monday, I expect Cincy will beat Buffalo even in Buffalo.

So we'd play against, I dunno, Baltimore or SD? While Cincy/Buffalo play and if/when Cincy wins, the game ends up in KC anyway.

But honestly, it seems INCREDIBLY unfair to Cincy to have to play that game in Buffalo given that they seemed very likely to win anyway. And at that point Cincy gets the 2 seed and Buffalo would've had to play on the road again.

This is just a lot of bending over backwards for scenarios that in at least some way end up screwing everyone who ISN'T the Buffalo Bills.

Buffalo OR Cincy. Zero chance the Chiefs okay both if they're the 1 seed.

I see the Bills POV but **** the Bengals. They have one more loss. They lost to Cooper ****ing Rush.

They don’t deserve Jack shit

**** that.

How about just have the Buffalo/Cincy game in the divisional round (assuming they both win in the wild card round and we win on Saturday) in Cincinnati instead of Buffalo. We are 1 1/2 games up on Cincy and they would still be behind us in seeding no matter what if we win on Saturday. There’s no way we should lose HFA against them.

Yes lets get these heated fanbases together on a neutral site

But that's what the average fan wants!

We lost to Matt Ryan though

...they had 1 full drive. I don't think you can say a team looks unstoppable because of 1 full drive. Especially when stats say Buffalos defense gets a lot better after 1st quarters. Iirc they're 26th in DVOA in 1st quarters and then top 10 in the other 3 quarters.

But Buffalo players had to endure so much. They were crying. They were broken. Let’s just give them the trophy right now. No week 18. No playoffs. Bills are your SB champs. Awww isn’t that inspiring???

if the chiefs actually agreed to that compromise, the bengals would immediately be up the NFL's ass about the two seed

not gonna happen

Can’t wait to read the reactions if that happened. Most likely idiots would want Buffalo to keep the #1 seed as it would not have been fair because their hearts weren’t into it because “Damar”.

It's the same scenario.

The Bills got screwed out of the one seed by not playing, the Bengals got screwed out of the two seed by not playing.

You can argue the Bengals got screwed MORE because they were winning.

I agree with you that there was no greater than a coin-flip's chance. But there was still absolutely a chance, right? Maybe 35-40% chance the Bills win?

Wouldn't that be exactly a situation where compromise would make sense? It wasn't a 0% chance, right? If the Chiefs are given the option, they should OBVIOUSLY take the bye week as that gives them an advantage on par with the probablistic advantage they had when the game was postponed.

Phrased another way...
Would you prefer:
1/ allowing the Bengals/Bills game to be resumed and then determing seedings based on that?
OR
2/ being given the 1 seed with a bye but have the AFCCG played in Buffalo?

Probabalistically speaking, I think they put us in a similar place. And that's why it's a relatively fair compromise option.

It’s pretty confusing because whoever has the 1 seed has to have the bye week. There’s nobody for them to play in the first week unless they added another wild card team.

And on Cincy's next possession they'd gone 20 yards in 2 plays to move into Bills territory.

No, we hadn't seen much yet, but Burrow started 4/4 for 52 yards while Allen went 3/6 for 33. The Bengals looked damn sharp and the Bills were fighting it a bit.

And on the road in a key matchup, those things are more likely to continue to snowball that simply revert themselves.

Not to mention the Bills were dropping like flies.

Seriously? I would imagine Roger Goodell who is making this decision cares what the average NFL fan thinks.

The Bengals don’t deserve anything. They have 4 losses. They don’t deserve the 1 or 2 seed

Yeah the only fair thing here is to make the chiefs the 3 seed because of the trauma both teams had to endure.

Makes so much sense

They also lost to Mitch Trubisky at home and got blown out by Jacoby Brissett.

The bye week would then go to the 2nd seed.

Its so obvious what to do, I don't understand why its still being debated.

I think the only reason there are two options on the table is to allow Buffalo a choice.

OK, so you want to be the #1 seed, you have to play the Bengals game. If you don't play that game, then all KC has to do to secure the #1 seed is beat Oakland.

It’s muh feels right now. Not logic at all.

I get your point but it’s kinda unfair. I seem to remember many a game when the Chiefs looked unstoppable in the first quarter…..and then….

The average fan thinks the game should still be played. How much does Roger care about that?

The average fan has come up with scenarios like flipping coins, giving both teams a W, etc.

In other words, the average fan is ****ing reeruned.

Actually I really like this idea of the 1 and 2 seeds either getting a bye or home field advantage. I actually think this is something they should do moving forwards tbh.

1 seed gets to choose either home field or the bye and the 2nd seed gets to get the other option

**** off

do you want to be a dynasty or not?

this is how you not be a dynasty

changing the rules that created other dynasties

Oh, I see we have circled back to Thunder Dome...

Using this logic though, we wouldn't have won any games in the 2019 playoffs and we wouldn't have lost last year's AFCCG.

I agree that it was more likely Cinci would win, but that's just an assumption. A biased one at that.

If I have to cede some odd set of contrivances, I'm going to at least ask for SOMETHING to be decided on the field. So I'd go with option 1.

I just don't see the need for it. What happened happened. Should we give the Bills a 4 point lead because they lost Von Miller? Teams deal with awful injury luck every week and the league go putting their thumbs on the scale to address it.

And in the end, once you get past the pearl clutching, that's what this is. It's awful injury luck.

agreed. I wouldn't hate it as I think this team plays better and more focused on the road anyway if it came to that.

So if the 1 seed is picking HFA or a bye, who is the 1 seed that gets to choose?

The #1 seed would almost always choose the BYE. Why? Because there's a better chance the #2 seed won't even make the Championship game, since they'd have to play twice including a possible game against the #3 seed.

Why would any team choose to play three games instead of two? Just because of HFA? That makes little sense. The extra game is a physical toll.

I'm guessing it will be us since we're the current 1 seed

Us. It's the only reason it's even being bandied about.

The NFL probably wants to come up with a solution that it deems fair-ish. If the game can't be played for whatever scheduling-related reason, going by winning percentage might look fair to a lot of Chiefs fans but it's not going to look super fair to the average NFL fan who will just understand that the Bills were the #1 seed, a game wasn't playeyd, and then they lost the seed.

I realize there's this disconnect where everyone here is certain that it should be a forfeit/no contest and then we just go by winning percentage, and I fully understand that thought process. But I don't think that sort of logic resides with the average NFL fan and I can understand where they're coming from.

Hence the issue. Make a decision on it and move on.

Well obv

Should be the Chiefs. Whole thing is absurd though. Just go off percentages or make them replay the game. Any other option creates weird scenarios on the fly.

Cincy was moving easily on the 2nd drive as well. They picked up 13 yards and a first down at the Buffalo 48 yard line when Hamlin’s medical emergency happened.

Fair enough point that Buffalo’s defense might improve in the final 3.5 quarters. Still think it would be over 50% chance of losing for Buffalo. Someone else posted an advanced metric thing that suggested a 65-70% chance for Cincy to win. I don’t agree with that, but I do think it was stronger than 50/50 chance. Cincy is damn tough to beat in their stadium.

I'd go with option 1/ too just because I think that's the cleanest way and then this plays out like it should've. But I don't know that it would put the Chiefs in any better or worse position as it relates to their ability to make it to the SB.

Case in point:

I literally retract everything I just typed in the last 15 minutes.

What a stupid option.

Clark Hunt better scream bloody ****ing murder if they try that shit.

They’re talking about this on Sirius XM radio now like it’s some brilliant idea.

If they did a neutral site, KC/CIN would be in Indianapolis, BUF/KC would be in Cleveland and CIN/BUF would be in Pittsburgh.

Yeah I’m sure that would go over really well

One less chance for their tendency of going full reerun at the most inopportune time costing us a game? Yeah, the bye is infinitely more important.

Still complete bullshit. Buffalo didn't want to play on Tuesday or Wednesday. They should be grateful it isn't a forfeit.