Big Blitz Posted January 3, 2023 Posted January 3, 2023 8 minutes ago, Doc Brown said: You're not going to hear a word from the NFL until Hamllin's status is known. As it should be. Which will be a fluid situation and could be days. You’re going to see the season go on pause this week. Quote
Ethan in Cleveland Posted January 3, 2023 Posted January 3, 2023 6 minutes ago, Doc Brown said: You're not going to hear a word from the NFL until Hamllin's status is known. As it should be. It could be days before we know anything. His status will have no bearing on what they decide. Nor should it. My understanding is the Bills already flew home. They are not playing tomorrow. The only possibility is a Wednesday game and then moving Bills Pats and Bengals Ravens to Monday. That seems unlikely because more than one of those teams and possibly all four of them will have a short week before the playoff games. Not happening. They aren’t playing this game and they will either forfeit the Bills because they were losing at the time the game was stopped or just go by conference win percentage. It doesn’t really matter. This team is cursed this year. 1 Quote
AuntieEm Posted January 3, 2023 Posted January 3, 2023 (edited) 27 minutes ago, What a Tuel said: The Bills didn't forfeit, and the game was postponed, and there doesn't appear to be precedent or a rule for this. The NFL will be making up its own ruling for what happens next and for that we will speculate. I'm sure the nfl offices will consult with the rules committee to figure out some fair method that is as fair to all the teams as much as they can. How they deal with this might make things better for player safety going forward as there might be less tolerance for letting little extra hits from some of the more chippy players to be left unchecked. Not saying that occurred in the Hamlin injury as it didn't even appear to be a overly hard collision between the players. Seemed fairly routine as far as tackles go. Edited January 3, 2023 by AuntieEm Quote
Billznut Posted January 3, 2023 Posted January 3, 2023 (edited) 16 minutes ago, Ethan in Cleveland said: It could be days before we know anything. His status will have no bearing on what they decide. Nor should it. My understanding is the Bills already flew home. They are not playing tomorrow. The only possibility is a Wednesday game and then moving Bills Pats and Bengals Ravens to Monday. That seems unlikely because more than one of those teams and possibly all four of them will have a short week before the playoff games. Not happening. They aren’t playing this game and they will either forfeit the Bills because they were losing at the time the game was stopped or just go by conference win percentage. It doesn’t really matter. This team is cursed this year. It actually would matter if it got down to the two options you listed. Forfeiture or go by conference win %. If we have to forfeit we will almost certainly end up the 3 seed. If they just eliminate the game or make it a tie, and go by win % then we would almost certainly end up the 2 seed. Neither is the 1 seed obviously, but 2 seed would be preferable to 3 seed. But I can’t imagine Cincy would be happy to go by win percentage. Just as Buffalo would prefer not to have to forfeit. I don’t see how the NFL can make each team happy or make things fair without somehow finishing the game. I just don’t know how they can reschedule at this point. I’m sure plenty of high level meetings will take place at the NFL office today. Edited January 3, 2023 by Billznut Quote
Thrivefourfive Posted January 3, 2023 Posted January 3, 2023 I didn’t want to talk about fantasy football tonight, but I won my championships on THAT play. I was down 1.7, and Higgins is the only player either of us had tonight. With Higgins rec and 13 yards, I won. Now that’s some *****. But I don’t know now complicated this gets if the game is actually canceled instead of being suspended/delayed as is currently the case. Quote
Doc Brown Posted January 3, 2023 Posted January 3, 2023 22 minutes ago, Ethan in Cleveland said: It could be days before we know anything. His status will have no bearing on what they decide. Nor should it. My understanding is the Bills already flew home. They are not playing tomorrow. The only possibility is a Wednesday game and then moving Bills Pats and Bengals Ravens to Monday. That seems unlikely because more than one of those teams and possibly all four of them will have a short week before the playoff games. Not happening. They aren’t playing this game and they will either forfeit the Bills because they were losing at the time the game was stopped or just go by conference win percentage. It doesn’t really matter. This team is cursed this year. I meant they won't announce anything tonight. They're not going to say we're resuming the game on Wednesday and then god forbid Hamlin dies in the hospital overnight. Quote
Aussie Joe Posted January 3, 2023 Posted January 3, 2023 10 minutes ago, Thrivefourfive said: I didn’t want to talk about fantasy football tonight, but I won my championships on THAT play. I was down 1.7, and Higgins is the only player either of us had tonight. With Higgins rec and 13 yards, I won. Now that’s some *****. But I don’t know now complicated this gets if the game is actually canceled instead of being suspended/delayed as is currently the case. Hope the Bills winning the real Championship gives you some peace of mind brother ! Quote
TheWeatherMan Posted January 3, 2023 Posted January 3, 2023 1 hour ago, Buffalo Ballin said: Simple. Have opposing coaches on a Live Cam. Have a NFL Rep do a coin flip. Problem solved. We’re doomed if this is the solution. Quote
Aussie Joe Posted January 3, 2023 Posted January 3, 2023 4 minutes ago, TheWeatherMan said: We’re doomed if this is the solution. He said Problem solved.. Quote
Generic_Bills_Fan Posted January 3, 2023 Posted January 3, 2023 1 hour ago, Dick_Cheney said: Doesn’t this have major implications on who wins the AFC North, which in turns has major implications on everything else? I really don’t see how they don’t play this somehow. I think they’re gonna play it but they don’t want the focus to be on rescheduling the game right now which is the right call Quote
Buffalo Barbarian Posted January 3, 2023 Posted January 3, 2023 The game needs to be played. This may seem harsh but we had a guy die at work, was crushed to death, and they didn't stop work and we worked through it. It Friggin sucked ill tell ya that but they could get it together by Wednesday and then play again next Monday even though that is not a normal on the last week. 1 1 Quote
Generic_Bills_Fan Posted January 3, 2023 Posted January 3, 2023 1 hour ago, Doc Brown said: You're not going to hear a word from the NFL until Hamllin's status is known. As it should be. He’ll likely be in the icu for a few more days labeled as critical condition I’d think. Quote
Bad Things Posted January 3, 2023 Posted January 3, 2023 3 minutes ago, Buffalo Barbarian said: The game needs to be played. This may seem harsh but we had a guy die at work, was crushed to death, and they didn't stop work and we worked through it. It Friggin sucked ill tell ya that but they could get it together by Wednesday and then play again next Monday even though that is not a normal on the last week. A guy was crushed to death where you work, and they didn't close shop for the day? WTF? Sounds like a great place to work. Quote
Buffalo Barbarian Posted January 3, 2023 Posted January 3, 2023 2 hours ago, Einstein said: No plan to play to resume the game at this time. they dont have much time to decide 3 minutes ago, Bad Things said: A guy was crushed to death where you work, and they didn't close shop for the day? WTF? Sounds like a great place to work. Actually it is a great place to work BUT they screwed up that day. Most guys took a vacation day. 1 Quote
Kenosha2Buffalo Posted January 3, 2023 Posted January 3, 2023 I think the respectful thing to do is tie it or push the NFL back Quote
Aussie Joe Posted January 3, 2023 Posted January 3, 2023 44 minutes ago, Buffalo Barbarian said: Actually it is a great place to work BUT they screwed up that day. Most guys took a vacation day. Sounds like you work in a 19th century British match factory… 1 Quote
BillMafia716ix Posted January 3, 2023 Posted January 3, 2023 I don’t think the game will be made up. Just not enough time. KC will get the 1 seed. Bills and Bengals will be #2 or 3 depending on the results of the Pats game. 3 Quote
BobbyC81 Posted January 3, 2023 Posted January 3, 2023 3 hours ago, Bferra13 said: Only reason I can think is the NFL pissing off a LOT of fantasy football people.this game most likely affected 70% of all fantasy championships in some way. I dont think they let that fly. I was waiting for someone to bring up Fantasy Football. Oy vay! 2 Quote
TBBills Posted January 3, 2023 Posted January 3, 2023 Do the Chiefs get #1 seed automatically if the Bills Bengals game doesn't get played? Quote
Gary Marangi Posted January 3, 2023 Posted January 3, 2023 Play Thursday move the next games to Monday have wildcard weekend games on Monday Quote
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