**** yeah our player literally died on the field now we're America's team. Real classy Bills fans

LMAO

EVEN DAMAR THINKS THEY SHOULD HAVE FINISHED THE GAME!!!!

GIVE THOSE PUSSY BILLS THE LOSS!!!!!

Make no mistake though: there's basically no one outside of our own fanbase (and maybe heated rivals of the Bills and Bengals) who want the Chiefs to win this year. Those who get all worked up about talking heads saying mean things about the Chiefs might want to schedule your therapy sessions now.

I mean, I feel like Buffalo wins just because of this incident. Watching Hamlin raise the Lombardi would be NFLs biggest story ever.

Let's go Patriots!!!

Notice, his first words were NOT:

“I sure hope they canceled the game and used a random number generator to decide the 1 seed!”

BlackOp?

It’s pretty ****ed up that they made you guys play without a QB last year when they were all healthy, but Buffalo can’t finish a game without a DB.

They should have played on, once the ambulance left the field.

Why wait?

The ambulance would've provided more of an impediment to Cincinnati's offense than Buffalo's defense was going to.

All of this shit is gonna be for naught when it ends up being Chiefs vs Chargers AFC championship...

You would think half this board hangs out with Roger on the weekends for the number of times it's been mentioned as absolute fact, "what the NFL wants...."

Does he think it’ll be rigged too?

Should've had a Triple Threat Ambulance match with DA UNDERTAKA

That's the gayest shit I've ever read

I mean, right now it looks like the Chargers are gonna be the 5 seed and we'd play them in the divisional round (if it is true about the NFL going by winning percentage for the 1 seed).

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TV rights for the replay game are down to Hallmark and OWN

When the Bengals killed Trent Green, we finished the game.

AB?

Really?

Are you sure about that?

Could you bump that thread?

Does this set a precedent where a team can decide not to play because a player suffers a severe injury? As a fan, seeing something like Joe Thiesman's leg getting snapped or the injury to Alex Smith is much more traumatic. Seeing Tua's hands clench due to traumatic brain injury was horrible. Watching a player take a helmet to helmet hit and fall to the ground like a sack of potatoes is hard to watch.

I read somewhere that injuries like this were common in baseball where players would take a fastball to the chest and stop their heart. What sort of changes do we envision the NFL is going to make to prevent sharp blows to the chest?

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...at-600-p-m-et/


The NFL is moving toward a solution, necessitated by the decision not to proceed with the Week 17 game between the Bills and Bengals.

Per multiple sources, the Competition Committee will convene at 6:00 p.m. ET to vote on the approach to AFC playoff seeding based on the fact that Buffalo and Cincinnati will have played 16 games, and that the rest of the conference will have played 17.

It’s unclear whether the vote will be binding. Most likely, it will proceed to the Commissioner, who could in theory veto it. Given the circumstances, it’s highly unlikely that a full ownership vote would be required.

Possibilities include a neutral site for the AFC Championship, if it involves two of the three teams most affected by the cancellation of the game — the Bills, Bengals, and Chiefs. Some have suggested that, if the Chiefs are the No. 1 seed, they would choose either the bye or home-field advantage against the Bills or Bengals, whichever finishes as the No. 2 seed.

The possibility of adding an eighth team to the AFC playoff field would require collective bargaining with the NFL Players Association. There is no indication that any such discussions with the union have happened.

There presumably is a small theoretical chance that Bills-Bengals will still be played, given the unexpected good news from earlier today about the status of Damar Hamlin. That would require configuration of the playoff schedule. All indications currently point, however, to the game not being played.

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Gonna find out soon then.

If this happens definitely choose the bye. Playing at home doesn't seem to help this team much.

So if Andy Reid is still on competition committee does he get to discuss but recuse himself from a vote?

Or, would he have to recuse from discussion and vote?

Reid may be on coaches subcommittee and not the main committee.

They should file these rule changes under Section: Eff, Subparagraph M.

So they will move\re-schedule games if an entire city is taken over by a snow storm or hurricane or enough players have Covid but somehow they couldn't figure out how to play this game in the last 2 days?

I think if what people are saying is true, that Buffalo has no interest in playing the game then Buffalo forfeits. It's pretty simple.

FYI, just about everyone on the Competition Committee has incentive to screw the Chiefs over.

Competition Committee:

Rich McKay (Chairman) – president and CEO, Atlanta Falcons
Katie Blackburn – executive vice president, Cincinnati Bengals
Chris Grier – general manager, Miami Dolphins
Stephen Jones – executive vice president, Dallas Cowboys
John Mara – owner, NY Giants
Ozzie Newsome – executive vice president, Baltimore Ravens
Frank Reich – head coach, Indianapolis Colts
Ron Rivera – head coach, Washington Commanders
Mike Tomlin – head coach, Pittsburgh Steelers
Mike Vrabel – head coach, Tennessee Titans

The first sentence in the last paragraph make it sound like the fact that he didn't die makes it possible (although unlikely) that they could still play. i'm pretty confident that ship has sailed.

The NFL commissioner selects the members of the Competition Committee, which currently includes:

Deeper Dive: Learn more about the Competition Committee's position on sportsmanship.

Rich McKay (Chairman) – president and CEO, Atlanta Falcons
Katie Blackburn – executive vice president, Cincinnati Bengals
Chris Grier – general manager, Miami Dolphins
Stephen Jones – executive vice president, Dallas Cowboys
John Mara – owner, NY Giants
Ozzie Newsome – executive vice president, Baltimore Ravens
Frank Reich – head coach, Indianapolis Colts
Ron Rivera – head coach, Washington Commanders
Mike Tomlin – head coach, Pittsburgh Steelers
Mike Vrabel – head coach, Tennessee Titans

Bad things are coming our way.

Anybody would choose the bye in that scenario. It's really not much of a choice at all.

Frank Reich is out, Katie Blackburn should not get to vote. Newsome, Greer, Tomlin and Vrabel all have an interest in the playoffs falling their way. These should not be the people making this decision.

Play 3 games at home or 2 games, 1 at home and 1 on the road if it's against one of two particular teams??

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I don't know about that. Those bolded Teams are AFC teams who could be negatively affected by attempts to be "fair" to the Bills and Bengals.

And all the NFC squads, disrupting the playoff schedule probably doesn't sound very appealing to them...

if that's the list of people voting on a solution you might as well get some fans in on it too lol

Not after Lamar makes his triumphant return and beats the Bengals next weekend.

I think Billay should be part of the competition committee.

But again, we could end up playing Cincinnati at a neutral
Site, and the bengals may have to play Buffalo in Buffalo

Cincinnati and Tennessee are also AFC teams with an interest.

How do the Ravens feel about this? Or other teams? Nobody is mentioning them but doesn't that game directly affect their chances of winning their division?

We are getting at least 1 game at home, I promise you.

The action they took was appropriate for the circumstances.

Using the fear of precedent argument to Monday Morning QB proper decisions serves no purpose.

Yeah they needed Cincy to lose for a winner takes all deal this Sunday.

Billay would absolutely love that!

The good thing is no one cares what the Ravens feel about this.

Each team selects a player for a dick measuring contest.

Longest gets the bye. Girthiest gets HFA. Billay has volunteered to judge for free.

We got Chris Jones, so I feel good about our chances.

If the Chiefs win against the Raiders, the only chance of seeing the Chargers is in the Divisional round if the Bills and Bengals both win... I guess your calling for the upset!

Neutral site sounds like the better option of these 2 shitty ideas.

ROFL That seems like the clincher in a made for TV movie after the Bills hoist the Lombardi and they flash to Damar in the hospital.

Thank God Geno Smith is in the NFC....

Heard this on Rich Eisen show. They decide HFA by win%. Chiefs beat Raiders.

If the Chiefs are #1 they can chose HFA throughout the playoffs but the AFCCG if the Bills or Bengals are in the final, the game is played in a neutral site.

Or take the bye week and go into the divisional round with a home game. If it’s not the Bills/Bengals playing the Chiefs, neutral site . Otherwise in Arrowhead.

If we win out, there’s no reason for us to not host Cincy if we play them.

Luckily the Colts are out of it…Nick Foles

The NFL would get crushed by the Twitter mob. They apparently fear that.

Who cares. All this will blow over quickly. It'll be on to the next outrage for that lot.

I’m calling BS. Having taken care of people on vents for 10 years, many times I was the first human they see when they regain clarity. The first questions are ALWAYS
Where am I?
What happened?
Why am I tied to the bed?
Where’s my family/wife/kids etc?

I think the only difference is if we beat the Raiders, we would only play on a neutral site if it was against the Bills as the Bengals had no path to 14 wins.

This is such a goddamn joke. Wow.

Why the hell would a kC Cincy matchup be at a neutral site but a Bills Cincy game be in Buffalo??

Makes zero ****ing sense.

Neutral site being Indianapolis would heavily favor Cincy, which is less than 2 hours from there.

Seriously.:doh!:

Why isn’t it just Buffalo forfeits for not wanting to play the game?


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Because the Bills need to be coddled like the little bitches they are. I hope BB sticks it in dry this weekend.

The NFL cares my good man, the NFL cares.

Because that doesn't hurt the Chiefs.

I don't blame them. Some of these rumors are beyond insane. I mean the ones thrown out by legit media outlets.

I have no experience with that at all which is why I am laughing about it. It just sounds too ridiculous to be true.

Because that’s using logic and common sense.

It would have to go through my ass first.

Amen. You can bet that prick only sees what happened this week as an opportunity.

The bronze hand?

Jesus, that Bills forum guy wasn't joking about tearing anuses, was he?

The Bills ducked their responsibility to play the game as they know they would take the L in Cincy and need to take the L here…

They are acting entitled, it’s ridiculous.

No joke. I honestly think you’re gonna see a gear we haven’t seen all year once the playoffs start. Bring whatever comes our way.