That’s the issue… it becomes a slippery slope.

Again, I'm behind so may have been addressed. The divisional round would be our first playoff game and will be played the same weekend as the Bills/Bengals, assuming that they both win their WC games.

I don't think we will know... meaning they won't tell us the vote count... Just pass or not...

I think it's "is he going to die?"

Alex smith was gruesome but no-one was thinking "did my teammate just die? They didn't have to think during the game is one of my friends still alive? This is an extreme case. Very extreme and some people are acting like we are in danger of this happening everytime someone stubs their toe.

Katie is making sense here. The NFL is very much not. This will set a horrible precedent.

If Jerry Jones decides to be a **** just because it probably won't pass.

Try this...

http://www.espn.com/nfl/playoffs/machine

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Exactly where I was earlier, I just didn't think Cincinnati deserved neutral site if we win Saturday. Now that's resolved, I'm 👍.

I was curious who was on the competition committee and after reviewing this I guess I don't feel so bad for Bengals\Ravens unless the vote wasn't unanimous. Would be curious to see who voted for what.

Rich McKay (chairman) – president, 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, New York 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

Do it, Jerry. **** their shit up.

Same here, it's just ridiculous they didn't make them resume on Tuesday or Wednesday with the prognosis of Damar stable and improving.

I'd add one more provision to their proposal. If the Chiefs win out, have to play at a neutral site and lose to the Bills or Bengals, we get an early round compensatory draft pick.

Bengals are pissed though. If they win and the Bills win they have to play in Buffalo even though they controlled their own destiny going into Monday night and most likely would have been happy to resume the game on Tuesday or Wednesday...

Not sure what he would gain from that. And my suspicion is it's already been cleared by him.

They don't want to have this lingering out there for days because the owners can't agree on it. I think that's just a formality at this stage.

It's like congress, the votes most likely have been counted...

Because he doesn't like Goodell and hasn't been shy about making that as publicly apparent as possible. Anything that makes him look like an incompent goof serves him quite well.

Zac Taylor and Joe Burrow might prefer not to make a big deal about it since Ravens are at Bengals Sunday. Bengals win Sunday no coin flip to decide venue if Ravens v. Bengals is a wild card game.

Hell Bengals could lose to Ravens this Sunday and still have chance to host wild card with a coin toss.

I speak for everyone here when I say:

**** the Bengals

Yeah, the Bengals got the shaft here more than anyone. It’s more likely to drop them a place in the seeding, not just cost them a home game.

The bigger benefit is the first round bye which the Chiefs will keep (assuming they win on Saturday).

The NFL better not do Buffalo any scheduling favors on Wild Card weekend.

Bengals far and away came out the worst in this.

I can't speak for their fans but it doesn't look so bad. They got a mini-bye this week already and Buffalo is now depleted even further in their secondary.

I wonder if we could get a 2/3 majority of this board to vote for it

They pretty much would have had the 2 seed if that game was resumed...

We should be thrilled.

The team that knocked us out has the hardest road to get past us again.

We’ve seen broken necks, people hauled away unconscious. It’s always upsetting.

Surprised they aren’t asking for a bye until the championship game.

i thought we were an autonomous collective

Well, they've got no one to blame but themselves. Never should have agreed to cancelling the game; in that scenario, they should have been awarded a win when the Bills declined to continue. And honestly, it looked like they were well on their way to stomping the Bills' asses.

Is there a coalition of 9 teams to block this proposal?

You DO realize that’s exactly WHY it was done. Because Josh didn’t get to touch the ball and people were ‘upset’.

You do realize that 3 years earlier the same EXACT thing happened to Mahomes and no one outside of KC gave a shit. In fact, KC proposed a rule change so that wouldn’t happen again and you know who voted against it (amongst most others)? That’s right, the Buffalo Bills.

The Bills only want the rules changed when it affects them. They’re a bunch of self serving pussies. Guess it’s why their entitled fanbase fits so well with them. And the NFL plays right along with it (honestly have no idea why).

It’s pathetic.

I’m just pointing out that the Bengals seemed to mutually agree with the Bills to take their teams off the field and to not press the issue about finishing the game out of respect, and they got screwed for it.

Indy is half way between KC & Buffalo I bet thats where the game would be or LA

Was thinking the same. Indy is also good at taking on big events.

I proposed that Bills be 2 seed and Bengals 3 seed for matchups, but Bengals and Bills in divisional should be at Cincy because of suspended game, and if Bills win divisional, AFC Championship could be played in Buffalo as if Bills won week 17 at Cincy.

I think the proposal is fine, but Bills v. Bengals in divisional should be a neutral site game.

I would not be surprised if part of the rationale was they did not want Bills to play at Cincy so no thoughts of revisiting a scene with recent bad memories.

A million games have ended that way, but because Joshy made a sad face on TV, we gotta change the rules.

All of this.

Of course the rule going forward doesn't necessarily benefit the Bills or anybody else.

The problem is the timing. All the whining the media and everybody else did on behalf of the Bills, and the sudden (and convenient) change of heart about something we've seen play out the same way like the Chiefs/Pats.

Super Bowl. Clark has to be a part of this community, and losing that game will cost millions in revenue. If he didn't demand something in return that was at least as valuable as an AFCCG for Kansas City (the city, not the team), I'd not want to be him next time he comes hat in hand looking for a bond issue or public assistance with renovations.

Why didn’t they just play OT rules for one quarter to determine a winner. They’d play a quarter of football Monday night and all this could have been avoided.

Uhm, I understand all of that.

Apparently though you don’t understand that changing that rule during the AFCCG last year would be accommodating the Bills but changing it in the offseason does not.

Do you realize that?

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Yep. They're a bunch of whining ****ing emo toddlers. In the past I didn't like them but at least respected them. That's gone forever.

LMAO

It’s like everybody decided become complete petegz’sss (you can’t use winning % when you have unequal games, because fish wear tennis shoes”)

No team in their spot would have taken that route, I guarantee it. And the league would have never forced a Bills forfeit that night for PR reasons.

They should have (and may have) requested the game be resumed 2-3 days later.

Creed you moron

The closest I can come to comparing it to something is when I was at a gas station in New Orleans and someone randomly came up to me and asked if New Orleans was a bigger city than Maryland.

I don't think anybody, even the first person you quoted, thinks the rule change benefits the Bills going forward.

The point is the blatant favoritism, which has now become a pattern.

Bye week: HUGE
Not having to play Bills AND Bengals in the playoffs: HUGE
AFCCG at a neutral site: kinda sucks but nothing compared to those other two

People need to stop whining. The Bills could have easily come back and won that game. We could be looking at Cincy in the divisional round and at Buffalo in the AFCCG.

2/3 of one specific team that benefits the most if not adapted? No.

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Joe Mixon not happy

I wonder what their rationale is on changing their position on the vote?

Not to mention the Bengals were going to drop a 50 burger on the Bills Monday night...

I'd rather have all three myself. And we'll have it if Clark can build the 9-vote coalition (and obviously beat the Raiders).

No. At worst you have 3(chiefs, bengals, ravens)

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He said the rule change was to accommodate the Bills.

It doesn’t do that for them more than it does for any other NFL team.

If Reid is cool with it I doubt Clark votes against it. We'll see what happens.

Not if the rules hurt the Bills, Joe.

Would you rather the Bills and Bengals actually play again for us to get a chance at all three, but also risk losing all three?

Because I think we come out a lot better on average w/o them playing again.

:)

Haha

Can we get ARROW2 and petegeegzz to calculate these odds?

Neutral site proposal? What a ****ing joke. Play it in Dallas if that’s the case.

I'd just rather they actually follow their own rules without changing them a week before the playoffs, regardless of what we were given.

And actually, yeah, I really wanted to watch that Bills/Bengals game too.

I think it's pretty obvious what he meant though dude. I'm pretty sure he understands that it doesn't benefit any particular team.

You're just getting caught up in the semantics, because you're too busy simping for the Bills.

Neutral site is similar to college conference title games, not too bad. Bye week & setting up Buffalo/Cincy to beat each other is pretty huge. But KC has to beat the Raiders first. That won’t be easy.

Lets look live at the NFL locker room as a guy nobody has ever heard of on the internet has declared boldly he has lost respect for the team.

The shock waves from this devastating turn will be heard for a while.

So it sounds like the Bengals are now locked in at the 3 seed. They cannot get the 1 seed, which of the three teams, are the only ones with that limit. I don't see a path to the 2 seed for them either. If we lose and they win they still have one less victory so we are still ahead.

For the Bills to get the 1 seed they need us to lose and they win, now no longer having to worry about the Bengals outcome which would have been the case had they lost (and same as forfeiting) which is something I posted about earlier. The Bills actually had better potential outcomes by not playing the game with more to lose by playing it and I believe that motivated them to not try getting the game in.

I would imagine it has something to do with 1/ Tom Brady; 2/ the fact it had happened 2 times in 4 seasons; and 3/ the greatest playoff game/ending ever seen in large part decided by a coin toss*.

*I am aware the Chiefs/Patriots playoff game was pretty great too but it wasn’t the same clash of titans and there was Tom Brady

Raiders always check out in the last week when they have nothing to play for. We just need to get up a couple scores and they'll pack it in.

Undermines the entire point of playing 68 quarters of football for a full season for the rest of the league.

LMAO

You're such a ****ing simp.

It's because it happened to the Bills against the Chiefs. Nobody gave a single **** about it when it happened to the Chiefs. When it happened to the Bills, people acted like it was the first time they even heard of the rule. There was an entire movement through the media and fans to change it. That's why something got done.

The Chiefs haven’t been hurt here as much as the Bengals have, but it’s still nonsense that the Bills refusing to resume the game under any circumstances could get a road AFCCG for them moved to a neutral site.

Clark Hunt
Mike Brown
Jerry Jones

Those three are definitely on board.

Andy has pull in Jacksonville and Philadelphia.

Add Shahid Khan and Jeffrey Lurie.

Clark is PROBABLY in tight with Janice McNair (Texas ties) and Stephen Ross in Houston and Miami, especially after we dealt them Tyreek. Ross hates Buffalo. So does Woody Johnson in New York with the Jets.

That's eight.

Who's left? Snyder hates the league, the Hunts and Rooneys go way back. The Bucs, the 49ers? They owe us for 31-9 and...Joe Montana? Dunno.

The question is if they WANT to block it. If they want to, they can.

Yup, that’s exactly what I’m doing.

He’s saying the NFL is changing things to accommodate the Bills and points to today’s ruling in conjunction with the change to the OT rules as proof.

I’m making that up.

There's no competitive reason for Clark to not vote against it. Mights as well. Nothing to lose only potential gain.

If Cincy wins and Buf loses, Cincy gets the 2 (assuming the playoff machine is accurate).

I agree, however, the more I think about it the more I think this will save us from a Flagfest in LV this Sat...

The Bengals are not gonna be happy when they play the Bills.

They just pissed away any goodwill.

Yeah, and whether they used this situation to lean on the NFL so things were tilted in their favor or the NFL did it voluntarily, it isn’t right.

That didn't change a thing. If we beat the Raiders on Saturday, the Bills and Bengals will be the 2 and 3 seeds. If they both win their WC games they will play each other and the Chiefs will get the winner of the 4/5 WC game.

There is no way those two teams can play each other in the AFCCG if we have the 1 seed.