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Solutions to NFL dilemma?

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1. Take the week off! Let all players, coaches and fans pray for Damar. A good outcome will lead to #2.
2. Resume Buffalo @ Cincinnati Monday, Jan 9, with completion of the season the following weekend. This would negate the week off before the SB.

Pray for Damar!
 
Nice, but it absolutely will not happen.. The game will be played Wednesday night and at best they will move the sunday games to monday or sunday night… or just leave them as is and say **** it
 
People should remember that there are tv contracts, other stadium functions and the cost of refunding fan tickets to deal with when moving things around… one game is doable… two or three, probably… but moving entire weeks especially playoff weeks around without a full fledged natural disaster is not something the NFL and the TV guys are going to do…
 
Here is my thought. The game does not happen and you break ties with winning percentage. If still tied go to regular tie breakers. You are not forcing play on Wednesday. People make massive expensive travel plans to the SB. You are not moving it back a week.
 
SteelerSask2 said:
Here is my thought. The game does not happen and you break ties with winning percentage. If still tied go to regular tie breakers. You are not forcing play on Wednesday. People make massive expensive travel plans to the SB. You are not moving it back a week.
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I agree that rescheduling the entire playoff structure will not work, but do we forget that the NFL completely ****** the Steelers because the Rats had Covid? Didn't they force the Steelers to play on a Wednesday?

Yeah, they did.
 
Call the game, give the win to Cincinnati, proceed.
 
Steeltime said:
I agree that rescheduling the entire playoff structure will not work, but do we forget that the NFL completely ****** the Steelers because the Rats had Covid? Didn't they force the Steelers to play on a Wednesday?

Yeah, they did.
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Yes but that was covid related. They made plans and then revised plans. This was a traumatic experience at the game last night. Buffalo flew home. Some stayed. Trying to get **** together to play tomorrow night just seems unrealistic. Then I don't remember how the covid thing went down, but did either team play 4 days later. There are guidelines for recovery times between tackle football games and that is definitely on the edge.
 
Here is the deal in my opinion. There is the Human being situation which I know everyone feels terrible about and then the league decision which people are going to be curious about. And there will be winners and losers in that and unfortunately it will effect several teams in different ways. As it pertains to the Steelers I think regardless of the decision Buffalo is not going to have much fighting spirit come Sunday. I also think of The Pats, the Steelers and the Dolphins. None of them are particularly a good and deserving playoff team. I would like to watch the Steelers compete another week and hell who knows they could win a game. But they still average like 1.5 TDs a game.
 
I looked at the standings and week 18 opponents. If you use winning percentage the Chiefs gain advantage, but all opponents are reasonable:
Chiefs v. Raiders
Buffalo v. Pats
Bengals v. Ravens
You play all games at the same time to force all teams to play to win and you get less cascading effects on the other teams.
Edit there is an immediate cascade that hurts the Ravens. They would be unable to win the AFC North. They needed a Buffalo win and beating the Bengals in Cinci Sunday. But in the Winning percentage scenario Cinci loses tie breaks on getting a higher seed if everyone wins and gets advantage by winning a division that in my opinion they have earned already.
 
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Everyone in the POs already who are not the Bills or the Bengals have much less disruption until the WildCard is over. Unfortunately, I cannot see how both teams are not even more negatively affected by whatever decisions the NFL makes, like the Steelers when the Rats got the flu. The Chiefs and the Pats seem likeliest to benefit the most.

The best the Bills/Bungles can hope for is to use this injury as a rallying point for their playoff runs, and to forget how the season what-ifs might have been different, including seeding.

Hopes and prayers for the young man to make a full recovery.
 
What happens, i.e. would it affect playoff seeding, if all parties agree to call the game a tie and don’t finish it?

Problem is both teams are in the playoffs. It’s not like two bottom feeders and it doesn’t really matter.
 
Troglodyte said:
Call the game, give the win to Cincinnati, proceed.
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Call the Bills and say Wednesday is the game, you there or not, with forfeiture in mind.

I want the player to heal and be well, but the rest of the world needs to toughen up. He’s getting the BEST care possible weather the game is played or not.

You can’t penalize the rest of the teams, the play must go on as scheduled.

The STEELERS Played 3 games in I think 12 days, so suck it up.


Salute the nation
 
I think the biggest thing for the Bills players is getting right mentally to step on the field. It will be tough enough next weekend. Can’t see it happening any sooner.
 
Drink IRON City said:
Call the Bills and say Wednesday is the game, you there or not, with forfeiture in mind.

I want the player to heal and be well, but the rest of the world needs to toughen up. He’s getting the BEST care possible weather the game is played or not.

You can’t penalize the rest of the teams, the play must go on as scheduled.

The STEELERS Played 3 games in I think 12 days, so suck it up.


Salute the nation
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I wouldn't say you are being insensitive. I would say this. Its two different situations. The Steelers/ Ravens were in a Covid situation. I think they screwed the Steelers and Ravens should have forfeited. Cannot field a team. You are forfeiting. From the outside forcing the Bills to play or forfeit would be extremely insensitive.
 
Buster said:
I think the biggest thing for the Bills players is getting right mentally to step on the field. It will be tough enough next weekend. Can’t see it happening any sooner.
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Disagree.
Two points:
The young man may make a full recovery.....Others didn't, but the game was finished. While I get that watching this felt different for many, was it really much different than for Shazier?
The young man played for years at Pitt, like Kenny. Why does this affect the Bills more than the Bungles or individual Bills players more than other teams' players? Why is this dramatic and traumatic injury different?

As DIC pointed out, the young man is getting the very best treatment, thankfully.
 
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SteelerSask2 said:
I wouldn't say you are being insensitive. I would say this. Its two different situations. The Steelers/ Ravens were in a Covid situation. I think they screwed the Steelers and Ravens should have forfeited. Cannot field a team. You are forfeiting. From the outside forcing the Bills to play or forfeit would be extremely insensitive.
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I am trying not to be an *** here and I certainly understand that the Bills players are very much distracted right now due to the terrible injury suffered by a teammate. I get it.

However, those players are going to be affected for months - years. Should the NFL cancel the season? Oh, no, you say, and instead come up with some arbitrary timeline for having the Bills return to the field.

So your argument basically is that your arbitrary timeline is better than my arbitrary timeline.

Finally, the great news is that Hamlin has not passed. Awesome news. The entire world deals with terrible losses and have to go on. States give 2-3 days of bereavement leave when a close family member dies - DIES. Every one of us - every single one - has lost someone we love. We go on. I think Brett Favre played the same day his dad died and threw 4 TD passes.
 
Steeltime said:
I am trying not to be an *** here and I certainly understand that the Bills players are very much distracted right now due to the terrible injury suffered by a teammate. I get it.

However, those players are going to be affected for months - years. Should the NFL cancel the season? Oh, no, you say, and instead come up with some arbitrary timeline for having the Bills return to the field.

So your argument basically is that your arbitrary timeline is better than my arbitrary timeline.

Finally, the great news is that Hamlin has not passed. Awesome news. The entire world deals with terrible losses and have to go on. States give 2-3 days of bereavement leave when a close family member dies - DIES. Every one of us - every single one - has lost someone we love. We go on. I think Brett Favre played the same day his dad died and threw 4 TD passes.
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I would say there is much more at work here than arbitrary time lines or what the Bills think. The NFL has already said its not thinking about the reschedule at this point (Though we all know they are). If they say play tomorrow or forfeit before the end of the day today, they are going to get ****** trashed in the court of public opinion. So your timeline or mine........ That simply is not happening.
 
madinsomniac said:
People should remember that there are tv contracts, other stadium functions and the cost of refunding fan tickets to deal with when moving things around… one game is doable… two or three, probably… but moving entire weeks especially playoff weeks around without a full fledged natural disaster is not something the NFL and the TV guys are going to do…
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This isn't entirely true.
While the playoff weekends are set, the locations (host city), specific times, and specific dates are not.
This will all not be known and cemented until after the final game is played. And Cincy and Buffalo will both be part of these scenarios, one way or the other.
It's probably easier than you think for CBS and Fox to shift their programming around to cover the 3-4 hour window they had allotted for their game.
They can simply move the games and the paid sponsors with them all one week.
It's not like they need to preempt a different sporting event or something important.
It's afternoon/evening television on Saturday and Sunday.
They'll just move Seinfeld and Buffy the Vampire reruns around.
 
The NFL said the game will NOT resume this week and they have made no decision on if it will. This came from Rappaport and the NFL on Facebook.

I was in my FF championship with a 40+ point lead. My opponent had Higgens and the Bills D. I had it in the bag. Now, I don't know what they will do other than make us try to play the championships in the last week of the season. I am assuming all FF leagues will have to do this.
 
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