Long as it's settled. That's all that matters, I'd say...
You better hope not, the Bills and Bengals already beat you.
Fixed...
Kinda wondered that myself. Then again, don't they have a home game left to prepare for...?
Just a bad situation, hope it never happens to any player again
Up until yesterday the worst I saw was when Dennis Byrd broke his neck when he played for the Jets, which was almost as devastating...
Daryl Stingley too
You’re saying more than that. You wanted to give the Bengals a win and the Bills a loss in the first post of yours that I replied to. All other aspects of this is just us disagreeing. But it’s this piece that I’ve called out as being nuts. It just spits in the face of what sports is about. As far as I know, baseball is the only major sport that has a contingency in effect for a shortened game. They demand half the game is played for it to be official and if the home team is down 5/9ths of the game. You were projecting a tangible win and loss added to the records of teams based on a projection of 1/6 of the game. You can see why I’m calling that nuts right?
No one is blaming anyone. But your team lost head to head to the two best teams in the conference and now because of outrageous chance they get propped up to the one seed? The only bye? Homefield throughout when a trip to Buffalo lurked? The Chiefs (like many teams) aren’t the same offense on the road. No one is blaming anybody but come on. The AFC was handed to you last night. If the Chiefs are the one seed they are far and away the Super Bowl favorite on circumstance.
Then I'll say this. Would this be the first time that a team has benefitted from shitty luck attached to someone else? I mean, you were pretty much praying to the football gods for the Raiders to beat the Chiefs this weekend to "set things right"...
The football Gods gave up on the Raiders long ago
This screws 3 teams. It takes away Bills one seed they had without losing a game. It destroys Bengals chance at getting the one or two seed with a win. Now that Bengals are a 3 seed and Ravens are locked into 6 they lost their chance to compete for division if the Bills beat the Bengals. And as I posted in a later post, the Chiefs are handed a complete gift. You also have to note that the team that is gaining the advantage lost head to head to two of the three teams getting screwed. I’m picking my side here based on what the teams have earned to this point in their season. You’re basing yours on a projection over who you think wins a game.
No, there was no inside track. The Bills had recovered from their mid season slump and were looking good. Win out and it was theirs, they were the favorite for certain.
Only if you assume the outcome of a game that wasn’t played. Bro, you know me. Do I have any fucks to give over what a computer model says about sports outcomes? Real talk. Gamblers use the best of those models to win…58-62% of the time. That is the win rate for the best sports gamblers. And they aren’t playing every game so the real win rate is lower than that.
Absolutely! That would be the sports gods setting the world right again.
