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I’ve read a few pages, but not nearly all of the pages of this thread. I have a scenario i have not seen proposed yet that would be the best fair solution.
1) Play all games as scheduled for this week 18. That includes Buffalo and Cin. They both play their scheduled week 18 games. No ifs, ands, or buts. They play with no concessions to them for those games. This way no teams or fans of any teams have to make schedule changes.
2) Week 19, Buffalo plays at Cincinnati, only. That game would be played that Saturday or Sunday (Jan 14 or 15) when the wild card games would normally be played. Which day would make no difference to me. The wild card week is pushed back. The qualified playoff teams all get a bye week and the weekend off. The non-playoff qualifying teams, their seasons are over. They carry on with their off season activities
3). Wild card weekend is pushed back one week and starts week 19, Jan 21-23. The top seeds still get a bye and are off.
4) Division round, week 20, Jan 28-29.
5) Championship round, Feb 5
6) Super Bowl weekend, Feb 12, when originally scheduled. To my understanding, the is non-negotiable with the NFL. They will not move the Super Bowl date. The Super Bowl teams will both need to prep on the road as the Super Bowl media requirements would still be held as much as possible. Both teams would be dealing with the same requirements, so may the best team win at that point.
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