Posted on 01/03/2023 9:33:41 AM PST by jimjohn
[Note: for those who could care less about the NFL or football in general in this forum, you can skip this thread]
Oh, to be in the board room of the National Football League right now. All thought are on the player Damar Hamlin. Our thoughts and prayers go out, and this Bills fan has been receiving support from around the country from friends and family. But with that said, it’s going to be asked: What to do with the rest of the NFL season?
[Full disclosure: Bills fan for 43 years]
The complications are manifested by the importance of the game itself when it comes to playoff positioning. A Buffalo win meant a win the following week guaranteed home-field advantage. A Cincinnati win would clinch the AFC North Division with the possibility of home field advantage as well. With Monday’s game postponement, not only is all of that in chaos, but it can also effect 11 of the 16 AFC teams now in playoff position.
Question: Assuming at least one team (The Buffalo Bills) may not be up to (or unable to be) playing this weekend against the New England Patriots (God forbid where their heads may be on Sunday), how to determine playoff positions?
It is impossible to avoid slighting a football team, but here is one possible scenario:
1. Declare the Bills-Bengals game a tie. It will not be rescheduled.
The 4 AFC division winners have clinched playoff spots. The only division winner in question is Bengals or Ravens in the AFC north, who play next Sunday. This game should go on as scheduled. We’ll get back to this game in #2.
2. Give the Buffalo Bills a bye this Sunday. Instead of Cleveland going to Pittsburgh, send the New England Patriots (scheduled on the road to Buffalo) to Pittsburgh. Winner makes the playoffs. Loser is out. If there is a tie, the Dolphins make the playoffs with a win. A Dolphins loss means loser of the Bengal-Ravens game gets in as a wild card. We’ll go ahead a give Cleveland a win for the record books, but their season is over.
3. Now, about the division winner seeding: A Chiefs win gives Kansas City top seed, with Buffalo guaranteed a #2 seed, Bengals-Ravens winner get #3 seed. A KC loss gives Bengals top seed with a win over the Ravens, but a KC loss and a Bengal loss gives Buffalo the #1 seed.
In short, by adjusting the last week of the NFL schedule, we give the Buffalo Bills time to regroup without having to send the season into an extra week in mid-January (that's not fair to anyone).
I know some will say it’s even ghoulish to think about it right now, but next Sunday - the final week of the regular season is right around the corner, and they gotta come up with something fast.
Just my $0.02
LOL- again- show me where they performed CPR and used a defibrillator on him while his teammates watched. That was the question fester.
LOL- arguments lost?? Blind ignorance is a sure sign of this. See post 75 fester.
You’re all over the place- first you’re comparing football games that continued after players broke bones in their back to last night, then you’re trying to compare what happened last night to college basketball games and can’t come up with requested evidence and now you’ve moved on to soccer.
Moving the goalposts is a sure sign you have no clue what you’re talking about
Good old wayne fontes and his Hawaiian shirts
Give the win to the Bengals since they were ahead.
“The NFL played the Sunday after JFK was assassinated, on 9/11 is was more about not being able to secure the games than morning the dead.”
Really?? That’s an ignorant take. What your excuse for the MLB cancelling games for almost a week and a half after 9-11??
I’m comparing players that were severely injured playing sports some died on the field of play, surely you can understand that.
Like I said, insults show lost argument, its pointless to continue, I’m right and you are wrong, debating that is not going to change my mind or yours.
LOL- you started the insults by referring to me as uninformed. But as previously posted, you don’t comprehend what you post fester.
Further proof is now you’re changing your argument. Just a little while ago it was about continuing to play the game after a severe injury occurs. Now? LOL Like I said- you’re confused.
Still waiting to see where CPR was performed on Johnson on the court and he was defibbed. Based on your ability to back up your claims with evidence I’m sure we’ll see Hamlin back on the field before that happens.
Buffalo should be offered an option to resume the game or forfeit. Why not Thursday night?
With or without myocarditis?
What do you know, another example of proof your lack of knowledge, college player during a game goes into cardiac arrest, CPR is done on him, player is hauled off on a stretcher and the game continued.
All of shown in the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7K2J4oJ6mE
I will never forget Jahvid Best’s injury when he played for Cal Berkeley years ago. That was scary, but the play resumed once he was taken care of.
Not convulsions exactly, but really unusual.
Not a bad plan.
I question the fairness of a single team getting the bye.
I think the game will be played, I said earlier, start the playoffs a week later, it would eliminate the off week between the conference championships and the Super Bowl.
Finish the season as scheduled, play the Buffalo/Cincinnati game the week after the regular season, it would be the only game that week.
The NFL players need to take their clot-shots every 2 months like good little bitches.
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