Likely, but not definitively. If they go with the "week 19" option, there's a reasonable scenario where the Bengals beat the Ravens and we beat the Raiders, the Bengals would be locked into the 3 seed. That would let them rest their starters against the Bills the week after, almost certainly giving the Bills the win they'd need to secure the 1 seed.

It would suck, but I'm not going to throw a fit if it happens.

Depends on if the game gets played or not.

If they don't play it, the Chiefs are the benefactor, tho it would feel kinda icky and it will surely be thrown in our faces for the entire tenure of the playoffs.

If they DO play it, but play it after week 18, then the Chiefs are likely to get ****ed as Cinci may have nothing to play for if they beat the Ravens.

I suppose our case that we deserve the #1 over both these teams is also injured by the fact that we lost to both of them this year.

NFL Network basically is, eide open.

Quit stealing posts you little bitch.

Yeah, I agree. If they don't want to play the Pats this weekend they can forfeit.

Don’t worry. The NFL will fix that.

Yup. We'll be the "#1 Seed*"

Hate that.

But the Bengals get the 2 by beating the bills then, no?

If the Chiefs lose.

Not sure I agree with this part. Sure Buffalo could have won the game, but they equally could have lost. The difference is that it would have been decided on the field vs like this. What happened is truly awful and was hard to watch. You can’t just hand out things over it. You can’t give one team an advantage over others because they were the unfortunate beneficiaries of a bad thing happening. It’s not fair to every other player in the league who has given their blood, sweat, and tears to get to this point. Plus what would be the cutoff and why that?

To say “We should have taken care of business against Indy” overlooks losses the Bills/Bengals have that they should have one. It’s no difference when a ref blatantly screws over a team and they use the “We should have played better” line vs calling out what it is.

Is this true even if we win on Saturday?

Wouldn't the Bengals still be alive for the #2 seed?

I think it's becoming very clear, that this game is never going to be played.

Get ready for Chiefs/Chargers playoff game because the NFL is going to get the Bills/Bengals game one way or another. Winner heads to KC.

Sets up the dreaded Back to Back game BS of Bills vs NE. Like we need to see that shit show twice in a row. But we also get back to back Ravens vs Bengals games.

What an awful mess.

Chiefs win, Bengals beat ravens then bills.

Chiefs
Bengals
Bills

This isn't true. They could still get the two seed.

Would just be proof positive that NFL players are the biggest snowflakes on the planet.

JFC imagine if they had to do something actually truly dangerous for a living making $40K a year.

I was like, WTF did dude just copy and paste that from another thread?

Is the ultimate irony of complaining about virtue signaling, copying and pasting someone else's post to complain about virtue signaling... meta virtue signaling?

I don't think the game gets played..

I think right now the NFL's biggest concern is Buffalo playing NE, Buffalo and Cincy are both in either way, that NE game though has ramifications for multiple teams.

If they beat the Ravens and then play and beat Buffalo. If KC were to lose to LV the Bengals have a very good shot at the #1 seed and the bye.

When it comes to athletes in a team sport like this often players are much closer to their teammates than even immediate family.

That's...what we want.

Buffalo also knows perception is on their side, if the NFL tries to make them do anything they're going to cry to the media and the NFL will get blasted.

Don’t need tie-breakers when there isn’t a tie. Fine with them deciding last night wasn’t worth playing, football consequences be damned. Whatever discussions happened today I’m guessing the NFL still wasn’t under pressure from the teams to play tonight/tomorrow out of their concerns about playoff seeding. Just cancel the game and move on.

Who's on first seed?

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sense I get after asking around is the Bills would be surprised if the Bengals game resumes at all. There’s just no clean way to do it, and Buffalo’s focus is solely on Damar Hamlin right now.</p>&mdash; Jeremy Fowler (@JFowlerESPN) <a href="https://twitter.com/JFowlerESPN/status/1610354804047417345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

They're either gonna forfeit the Pats game or go out there and not give a ****. Giving them a playoff spot and hosing several other teams.

Nope. Already been assigned Brad Rogers according to this site.

https://www.profootballnetwork.com/n...2021-nflwk-18/

Chiefs by a half game.

If a team fails to meet their obligations for whatever reason they should cede their spot in the playoffs.

I would be pissed if the Chiefs were talking about forfeiting several games.

I guarantee you that the Bills can put together a team to play the season out. Some guys may decide to sit, but you move one.

ok gang, thought of another compromise...chiefs win the super bowl but bills get the trophy?

thots?

So Buffalo should cancel their season so they can "focus" on Hamlin.

The NFL season is moving on.

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Someone make this GIF work!!! :skip:

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seems fair

I was talking in the event we get "handed' the 1 seed...and also joking...kind of.

EDIT thats also week 18 2022

This is it. I give the Jags a decent shot vs the Chargers though.

Really? So what's their solution cancel the season over 1 guys injury? What's the end game here? What makes Buffalo satisfied?

That's why you don't ever get yourself in a scenario where you let the mob dictate what's going on because they don't have any actual control over what's happening, its all emotion.

Yes. If we win on Saturday, the Bengals would still have a shot at the 2 seed if they were to play the Buffalo game. Bengals and Bills would end up 13-4, a game behind us, and Cincy would have the 2 seed. Of course everything is a cluster right now and no one really knows what’s going on with scheduling.

Yep, the NFL needs to think about the precedent they're about to set.

Looks to me like they think the league should just pause for them, that or they should get to stay the #1 without playing.

I’m as opportunistic as the next person but it wouldn’t sit right with me to win the #1 seed in this kind of technicality. Really hope they get the game in and week 19 makes the most sense. I think the nfl should be considering pre playoff bye weeks anyway.

they weren't the #1 before kickoff ROFL

This is when you need a commissioner/leader who makes strong decisions with conviction that doesn't cave into virtue signaling public pressure or is at the whims of Hamlin's EKG monitor.

Take all the time you need Buffalo. The rest of us will keep playing and watching football. Catch ya week one next year

Audacy 550 Buffalo

Yes. I have a hard time thinking anything other than Hamlin would want the Bills to move on and try to get back to normal, or as much normal as could be expected under the circumstances.

Technically, the NFL can't "make" them do anything so all Goodell can really do is threaten them with the loss of picks and fines and right now that would go over extremely poorly.

Public sentiment won't be with the Bills if they decide they're going to sit down and refuse to play football again until they feel like it.

The NFL can set the schedule and Buffalo can decide to play or not.

Phew at least this guy was responding, who cares if he couldn't (Checks notes) USE HIS LEGS
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Now I’m going to have to go back to 1997 and find an AM radio.

Its not a technicality, their player got hurt and they refused to play. Take the L.

I think they should call the game a tie. KC gets the 1 seed, Bills 2 seed, Cinci 3 seed.

I know it’s not fair to Cinci but it’s really not fair to anyone. No one is at fault here.

No kidding.

When he wakes up he's going to facepalm.

I work with a Bills fan and he is already tired of it all and thinks they should forfeit and just move on like it was just another loss.

Yeah. It was unprecedented for the league to cancel one game for them. That is enough. They can't demand an entire industry shut down indefinitely because their friend/coworker is in the hospital.

Yeah, fair just isn't in the equation.


How about the Chiefs lose a baffling game like we tend to do every once in a while and clean all of this up?

No one would care if these teams had shitty records. Because it's Buffalo and Cincy it's a big deal...Buffalo pulled their players take your loss.

More over,

Bill's are ****ing their OWN players by not playing.

"Oh you have an incentive based on stats or snap count.... Ooof too bad"

But man didn't you see them crying think of them!

The game was not suspended and there was no talk about opting out of upcoming games.

https://www.denverpost.com/wp-conten...1106.jpg?w=400

I'm not sure there is going to be anything that will ever be considered "fair" in this whole situation.

By the way, KC still has to go to Vegas this weekend, so NOTHING is settled yet.

Also of great importance, I have a fantasy football title on the line. Had Diggs going and needed only 5 points to win the (big) pot. If the game is abandoned I bet I am hosed.

**** that shit, KC didn't do anything to deserve any of this. Its a Bills player that got hurt playing Cincy. Those 2 teams should take 100% of the impact.

That's what's most "fair".

This. This. This.

Dude, I'm not saying we throw the game, I'm saying our team might shit the bed like they seem to do several times a season and we lose outright.

Notice the thread title had "not happening this week" added to it. Is there any way to update the OP so we don't have to sort through a few hundred posts in order to find the source for that information?

NFL teams throughout history get breaks for a 1 seed. How many instances of teams losing their QB or without 10 players who are injured impacting the playoffs. Never feel bad for getting the 1 seed. Yeah it’s a bad situation but it was nothing the chiefs did and we would be benefactors like multiple teams before us.

What fun would that be?

The NFL exist because of the fans. You owe your customers a product, we didn't invest 18 weeks to get to a ****ing shit show ending with bullshit made up outcomes because players refused to play when a guy gets injured in a sport they all know they can get injured in.

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CPs old fat white guys already telling the players "shut up and play" not even a full 24 hours after a player could potentially die is peak CP

Monday's game between the Buffalo Bills and Cincinnati Bengals will not be resumed this week, the NFL announced in a statement on Tuesday afternoon

Saw this on NFL app

Game will be resumed this week with no disruption to schedule.

That's not the right one! :cuss:

Oh, it's the right one.....

I had hopes they would play the game today. Shit is going haywire from here.

here you go Hank

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instead of playing the patriots sunday the bills will hold a candlelight vigil at orchard park....

Eh, found the source elsewhere anyway.