What happens to the Bills vs. Bengals game?

[The Q]

Why you satisfy everyone? Even the networks would be happy.

They would be most happy not upending them schedule


Call it a tie and move on

 

[fightinfunbags]

This would be the dumbest fucking outcome they could do. It's completely nonsensical.

It completely fucks over the NFC #1 seed for no reason with 2 straight weeks off.

Just push the start of the entire playoffs back a week if they must. Or better yet just declare the Bengals-Bills game no contest and move on.

I don’t think it’s that big of a deal. If the Eagles were hot, I’d worry about 2 weeks off. That gives them more recovery time for Gardiner Johnson, Maddox, Lane Johnson

 

[CrashDavisSports]

Give him a call, I'm sure nobody has thought of this in the league office

That's for sure.

 

[eaglesnut]

I think its going to be a no contest. Think about it in the Bills perspective...

* Get back on the plane to Cincinnati.
* Start the game and spot the ball a few inches to the right from where Hamlin needed CPR and was technically dead and had to be revived at. Play on.

It's asinine, insane, all of it is lunacy. No contest.

Start play right on the spot his heart was to honor him.

 

[PhilSimms11]

If BUF-CIN is cancelled...what about eliminating the bye week by adding an 8th playoff team in each conference...? Just as they did in 1982. By projection it could potentially look like this...

AFC
(1)KC (14-3) vs (8)PIT (9-8)
(2)BUF (13-3) vs (7)MIA (9-8)
(3)CIN (12-4) vs (6)BAL (10-7)
(4)JAX (9-8) vs (5)LAC (11-6)

NFC
(1)PHI (14-3) vs (8)SEA (9-8)
(2)SF (13-4) vs (7)GB (9-8)
(3)MIN (13-4) vs (6)NYG (9-7-1)
(4)TB (9-8) vs (5)DAL (13-4)

This way, there's no advantage regarding a team that got a bye "unfairly" for lack of a better term (KC). In the end, it's somewhat of a who cares situation, but for specifically the game of football I think this would work.

 

[The Q]

If BUF-CIN is cancelled...what about eliminating the bye week by adding an 8th playoff team in each conference...? Just as they did in 1982. By projection it could potentially look like this...

AFC
(1)KC (14-3) vs (8)PIT (9-8)
(2)BUF (13-3) vs (7)MIA (9-8)
(3)CIN (12-4) vs (6)BAL (10-7)
(4)JAX (9-8) vs (5)LAC (11-6)

NFC
(1)PHI (14-3) vs (8)SEA (9-8)
(2)SF (13-4) vs (7)GB (9-8)
(3)MIN (13-4) vs (6)NYG (9-7-1)
(4)TB (9-8) vs (5)DAL (13-4)

This way, there's no advantage regarding a team that got a bye "unfairly" for lack of a better term (KC). In the end, it's somewhat of a who cares situation, but for specifically the game of football I think this would work.

This might be the most fair way as the only team screwed by this is the eagles

 

[PhilSimms11]

This might be the most fair way as the only team screwed by this is the eagles

I suppose the NFC wouldn't have to do it, but for symmetry I included them. If the NFL did implement this for both conferences would the Eagles dare complain after all that's transpired?

 

[fightinfunbags]

If BUF-CIN is cancelled...what about eliminating the bye week by adding an 8th playoff team in each conference...? Just as they did in 1982. By projection it could potentially look like this...

AFC
(1)KC (14-3) vs (8)PIT (9-8)
(2)BUF (13-3) vs (7)MIA (9-8)
(3)CIN (12-4) vs (6)BAL (10-7)
(4)JAX (9-8) vs (5)LAC (11-6)

NFC
(1)PHI (14-3) vs (8)SEA (9-8)
(2)SF (13-4) vs (7)GB (9-8)
(3)MIN (13-4) vs (6)NYG (9-7-1)
(4)TB (9-8) vs (5)DAL (13-4)

This way, there's no advantage regarding a team that got a bye "unfairly" for lack of a better term (KC). In the end, it's somewhat of a who cares situation, but for specifically the game of football I think this would work.

There’s no need to include the NFC.

 

[RememberTheKoy]

If BUF-CIN is cancelled...what about eliminating the bye week by adding an 8th playoff team in each conference...? Just as they did in 1982. By projection it could potentially look like this...

AFC
(1)KC (14-3) vs (8)PIT (9-8)
(2)BUF (13-3) vs (7)MIA (9-8)
(3)CIN (12-4) vs (6)BAL (10-7)
(4)JAX (9-8) vs (5)LAC (11-6)

NFC
(1)PHI (14-3) vs (8)SEA (9-8)
(2)SF (13-4) vs (7)GB (9-8)
(3)MIN (13-4) vs (6)NYG (9-7-1)
(4)TB (9-8) vs (5)DAL (13-4)

This way, there's no advantage regarding a team that got a bye "unfairly" for lack of a better term (KC). In the end, it's somewhat of a who cares situation, but for specifically the game of football I think this would work.

Why are we fucking over other teams for no reason at all in these solutions?


Why do the Eagles kiss out on their #1 seed bye because of this?

 

[jerseyhawksfan79]

Play week 18 and if Cinncy/Buf is needed to be determined then have them play the following Sunday and push the playoffs back 1 week.

 

[FlyerFinFan]

Play week 18 and if Cinncy/Buf is needed to be determined then have them play the following Sunday and push the playoffs back 1 week.

Agreed they're only saying to add the first round of wildcards in NFC so that the networks are happy. No big deal if teams end up with a bye week not sure why some people are so offended. Extra week means healthier players and better games.

 

[eaglesnut]

If BUF-CIN is cancelled...what about eliminating the bye week by adding an 8th playoff team in each conference...? Just as they did in 1982. By projection it could potentially look like this...

AFC
(1)KC (14-3) vs (8)PIT (9-8)
(2)BUF (13-3) vs (7)MIA (9-8)
(3)CIN (12-4) vs (6)BAL (10-7)
(4)JAX (9-8) vs (5)LAC (11-6)

NFC
(1)PHI (14-3) vs (8)SEA (9-8)
(2)SF (13-4) vs (7)GB (9-8)
(3)MIN (13-4) vs (6)NYG (9-7-1)
(4)TB (9-8) vs (5)DAL (13-4)

This way, there's no advantage regarding a team that got a bye "unfairly" for lack of a better term (KC). In the end, it's somewhat of a who cares situation, but for specifically the game of football I think this would work.

Only screws the Eagles so who cares, right?

 

[The Q]

Only screws the Eagles so who cares, right?

There is no answer that is fair for eveyone

None

That one actually has the least damage

 

[Ickey Shuffle]

 

[eaglesnut]

There is no answer that is fair for eveyone

None

That one actually has the least damage

Calling the game at 7-3 is ideal in this situation. Everything that actually happened counts. No funny business.

 

[PatsFan2003]

#1 cannot happen.

It's either
1. No contest
2. A tie
3. A forfeit
4. Played after week 18. Logistically this is not great as all WC games will have to be pushed back.

A tie...

 

[fightinfunbags]

Calling the game at 7-3 is ideal in this situation. Everything that actually happened counts. No funny business.

I’ll give ya credit. You’re consistent. You’ve adopted a retarded point of view but you’re clinging to it with a death grip.

 

[Black Adam]

If BUF-CIN is cancelled...what about eliminating the bye week by adding an 8th playoff team in each conference...? Just as they did in 1982. By projection it could potentially look like this...

AFC
(1)KC (14-3) vs (8)PIT (9-8)
(2)BUF (13-3) vs (7)MIA (9-8)
(3)CIN (12-4) vs (6)BAL (10-7)
(4)JAX (9-8) vs (5)LAC (11-6)

NFC
(1)PHI (14-3) vs (8)SEA (9-8)
(2)SF (13-4) vs (7)GB (9-8)
(3)MIN (13-4) vs (6)NYG (9-7-1)
(4)TB (9-8) vs (5)DAL (13-4)

This way, there's no advantage regarding a team that got a bye "unfairly" for lack of a better term (KC). In the end, it's somewhat of a who cares situation, but for specifically the game of football I think this would work.

 

[jarntt]

I felt from the beginning this was the option they would pick and still feel that way. It's by a mile the least disruptive option and only really has the potential for any negative impact on the two teams involved in the game. It will be no game played, not a tie. Why would you change the entire schedule when you don't have to? This decision should have taken the league 30 minutes to come to.

 

[futballiscool]

This was dismissed as a bad idea by Florio (who heard it as a one of many rumored solutions) and his host but it seems like the most fair solution I've heard so far...

-Play week 18 as scheduled
-The next week will be Bills/Bengals and the NFC Wild Card games.
-The Week after that is the AFC Wild Card games.
-Now the Divisional round is set, just continue as normal from there with the bye week before the SB eliminated