Bills/ Bengals [cancelled - process in OP]

[cmh6476]

In case anyone needs it spelled out, we would play at a neutral site if the AFCCG ends up being Chiefs vs. Bills. All other scenarios abide by the usual rules (so any other game the Chiefs play will be at home).

Old posts:

Spoiler!

The NFL will consider a neutral site for the AFC Championship Game. Full details: pic.twitter.com/oi3fItUWIj

— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) January 6, 2023

Breaking News: Of course the game is secondary to #DamarHamlin’s health, but #Bills insider @viccarucci just reported on @wgrz Daybreak that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell will make the call on rescheduling the Bills/Bengals game and it would have to be played within 2 days.

— Melissa Holmes (@2MelissaHolmes) January 3, 2023

There is another option according to @viccarucci - the league can add a 19th week so the Bills/Bengals can get in all their games. @wgrz https://t.co/1X1hCHVN8c

— Melissa Holmes (@2MelissaHolmes) January 3, 2023

I assume we'll hear something soon

After speaking with both teams and NFLPA leadership, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell informed the clubs today that the Bills-Bengals game will not be resumed this week.

The NFL has made no decision regarding the possible resumption of the game at a later date.

— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) January 3, 2023

[KC_Connection]

The proposed plan for AFC playoff seeding raises important questions about the process for changing established rules during a season, and the precedent that would establish. https://t.co/obigGBPWJx

— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) January 6, 2023

But yeah, nobody should be upset about what the league is doing here.

[|Zach|]

Originally Posted by Pepe Silvia

I’m really tired of this “Wah Buffalo lost 4 straight SBs in the 90s so now they deserve the whole world BS.”

Nobody is thinking like that....nobody is making decisions off of this.

You are just another user in this thread who is making up absurd things to prop up their bad takes.

[BossChief]

Originally Posted by Hammock Parties

Florio making it seem like the owners might actually block this.

I'd love to know who the weasels on the comp com are that approved a neutral site for no ****ing reason other than feelings.

Probably a bunch of Chief-hating bitches.

I’m pretty sure Andy is on the competition committee

[Pepe Silvia]

Originally Posted by |Zach|

Nobody is thinking like that....nobody is making decisions off of this.

You are just another user in this thread who is making up absurd things to prop up their bad takes.

The whole nation is thinking that maybe not you personally.

[|Zach|]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

But yeah, nobody should be upset about what the league is doing here.

I already walked you through this. You get to be as upset and bitch as much as you want on here.

Nobody is taking away your ability to be a drama queen. You are not a victim.

[Ming the Merciless]

Originally Posted by GabyKeepsMeWarm

My dad is a television set repairman. I can fix this.


I like sex. Bo Derek's tits...

my brother's gonna kill us .

my brother's gonna shit

"well which is it dude"?

first he's gonna shit

then he's gonna kill us

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by |Zach|

I already walked you through this. You get to be as upset and bitch as much as you want on here.

Nobody is taking away your ability to be a drama queen. You are not a victim.

What the **** are you talking about?

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by BossChief

I’m pretty sure Andy is on the competition committee

He's not.

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

[DRM08]

Originally Posted by BossChief

For the record, that’s the minority I align with.

I believe the game should have been forfeited after it couldn’t be resumed by Wednesday night, but I also understand “the nfl is a business” and they have to keep their customers in mind when making decisions that transcend the sport itself and travel to all media.

Like I said. With everything taken into account, I’m not mad if that’s what passes tomorrow.

I'm just glad some of the more insane anti-KC ideas are not happening. Make no mistake, those ideas were floated through major media reporters for a reason. Someone came up with them, most likely the people in Buffalo. In the context of those floated ideas, a bye week and neutral site game is not terrible for KC.

The Bengals are the team getting screwed in a major way here, both in terms of their situation with Buffalo and their situation with Baltimore. Screwed on both ends of it for Cincy. They played the "nice guy" on Monday night and they're getting screwed big time for it.

[|Zach|]

Originally Posted by Pepe Silvia

The whole nation is thinking that maybe not you personally.

You think the WHOLE NATION cares about the Bills losing Super Bowls 30 years ago?

[TribalElder]

Buffalo was going to lose to the Bengals before the incident happened

7-3. resume and finish it or accept it or take two ties

quit ****ing with the rules because people are in their feelings.

National Feelings League

if this was KC you know they would just **** us over and make us take a loss

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by DRM08

They played the "nice guy" on Monday night and they're getting screwed big time for it.

It's absolute bullshit.

When the Bills finally play the Bengals they will regret this. There will be no hand-holding and singing kumbayah.

The Bengals extended an olive branch and the Bills took it and spit on it.

[KC_Connection]

Originally Posted by RINGLEADER

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Instead, the owners will consider on Friday the ultra-extraordinary step of changes the rules DURING a season. Time and again during the two-plus decades PFT has been in existence, it has been explained that rules deemed to be inappropriate or unfair would not be changed during the season. When voting tomorrow, the owners need to realize the unprecedented nature of the step they’d be taking.

Frankly, the currently proposed approach falls squarely into the category of “making it up as we go.” If the league wanted to have the flexibility to fashion an outcome based on the specific facts of a given case (as it’s doing here), the rules would provide for that. They don’t.

It doesn’t matter whether it’s the right decision or the best of various bad options. There’s a rule on the books. The owners will be considering a change to that rule, during a season.

They have the power to do it, obviously. But everyone needs to understand what this means. Settled, codified rules don’t matter during a given season, if 24 owners suddenly decide they no longer matter. The owners need to be prepared to cross that Rubicon when voting on the proposals they’ll consider on Friday.

At least somebody in the media sees the enormous problem with the league changing the rules midstream from a competitive fairness perspective. Just a horrible precedent. Where does it end exactly?

[Pepe Silvia]

Originally Posted by |Zach|

You think the WHOLE NATION cares about the Bills losing Super Bowls 30 years ago?

Yes, that’s why they all want them to win so bad NOW.

[Eleazar]

Originally Posted by |Zach|

I think these guys are just really hung up by what they think should have happened from the beginning.

Which is fine. It just makes it weird they are so mad at something that is so clear.

No matter how you think it should have been handled the solution they are proposing favors the Chiefs out of the 3 teams.

Yeah, it generally helps the Chiefs in the sense that it all but assures us the 1 seed, but it makes the 1 seed less valuable because it moves a game against the 2 seed to a neutral site.

It's still far better to have a bye week than not, and to play the lowest seeded team left in the divisional round. But we did lose something important that we had an even chance of earning otherwise.

You can't really say we got hosed, but if you are irrationally convinced that Buffalo was definitely going to lose on Monday you'd feel we got a raw deal. Bengals still have a lot more to complain about.