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5 minutes ago, Boatdrinks said:

Key word is IF. The game never happened and the league wasn’t dealing in what if’s. The records were what they actually were. There was a provision for a potential neutral site AFCC game involving CIN and KC (they played a different number of games ) but that went away when the Chiefs won their final regular season game. 

If we beat the Bengals we would've had the #1 seed most likely.  How is it any different than Bengals fans claiming they would've gotten the #2 seed if they beat us?  I'll take a home game but they got the short end of the stick even worse than we did.  KC were the only benefactors.  

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2 minutes ago, Doc Brown said:

If we beat the Bengals we would've had the #1 seed most likely.  How is it any different than Bengals fans claiming they would've gotten the #2 seed if they beat us?  I'll take a home game but they got the short end of the stick even worse than we did.  KC were the only benefactors.  

Most likely, but the Bills were not awarded the #1 seed even though they actually owned a tiebreaker over KC. Provision for neutral field was only in championship game / playoff game involving two teams that played unequal amount of games. So no neutral field for BUF/ CIN. That may have been different if the records were tied. 

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3 minutes ago, Boatdrinks said:

Most likely, but the Bills were not awarded the #1 seed even though they actually owned a tiebreaker over KC. Provision for neutral field was only in championship game / playoff game involving two teams that played unequal amount of games. So no neutral field for BUF/ CIN. That may have been different if the records were tied. 

It’s interesting to point out the Bills and Chiefs are both 14-3 right now. I wonder if a “reseeding” was considered? As in, KC gets the WildCard bye but the Bills would be reseeded as 1 by beating Miami.

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1 minute ago, Punch said:

It’s interesting to point out the Bills and Chiefs are both 14-3 right now. I wonder if a “reseeding” was considered? As in, KC gets the WildCard bye but the Bills would be reseeded as 1 by beating Miami.

Good idea, or perhaps Jax does us a solid and upsets KC giving us back our home field.
 

I’m more confident in us beating Cincy than I am in Jacksonville pulling off a huge upset at KC. 

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Just now, Punch said:

It’s interesting to point out the Bills and Chiefs are both 14-3 right now. I wonder if a “reseeding” was considered? As in, KC gets the WildCard bye but the Bills would be reseeded as 1 by beating Miami.

Maybe , it seems like a lot of things were considered. In the end the league just wanted to “wash its hands”of the Bills/ Bengals game and deal with it only if certain scenarios came about. Other proposals required a complete rework of the playoff schedule or even format , and those were just creating new problems instead of resolving one. 

2 minutes ago, chongli said:

Ugh...just read this on the Bengals forum:

 

"it's been 3 decades since the last time a WC game winner that allowed 30 or more points also won the next week. Teams are 0-7 since then. "

Irrelevant. 3 decades is too far back as the WC format ( and caliber of team) was different. The Bills went 13-3 and would have had the second conference bye in years past. They would not have been playing a Wild Card weekend game. Going back 3 decades is comparing apples to oranges. 

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6 minutes ago, chongli said:

Ugh...just read this on the Bengals forum:

 

"it's been 3 decades since the last time a WC game winner that allowed 30 or more points also won the next week. Teams are 0-7 since then. "

 

7 times in 30 years is a small sample size

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19 minutes ago, Boatdrinks said:

Most likely, but the Bills were not awarded the #1 seed even though they actually owned a tiebreaker over KC. Provision for neutral field was only in championship game / playoff game involving two teams that played unequal amount of games. So no neutral field for BUF/ CIN. That may have been different if the records were tied. 

I understand the league's reasoning but it doesn't mean the league was right.  No matter what they did besides actually resuming the game somebody was going to feel more screwed than others.  Heck, even KC fans are whining that they won't get to host the AFC Championship game if we make it there.

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7 minutes ago, Aussie Joe said:

 

7 times in 30 years is a small sample size

Absolutely, it’s arguably statistically insignificant considering team point totals are wildly out of proportion today compared to 10, 20 or 30 years ago.

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14 minutes ago, chongli said:

Ugh...just read this on the Bengals forum:

 

"it's been 3 decades since the last time a WC game winner that allowed 30 or more points also won the next week. Teams are 0-7 since then. "

That's pry because every WC winner in that span had to face a team coming off of a bye in a six team format.

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14 minutes ago, chongli said:

Ugh...just read this on the Bengals forum:

 

"it's been 3 decades since the last time a WC game winner that allowed 30 or more points also won the next week. Teams are 0-7 since then. "


Aw man I guess we should forfeit. However…

 

With the playoff expansion things are a little different because you had the one and the two seed coming off a bye to smoke a lower seeded team that played in WC.

 

Also, they probably stopped at 3 decades because in 1993 the Bills comeback game they let up over 30 points and wound up in the Super Bowl again.

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22 minutes ago, chongli said:

Ugh...just read this on the Bengals forum:

 

"it's been 3 decades since the last time a WC game winner that allowed 30 or more points also won the next week. Teams are 0-7 since then. "

 

To be fair, the Bills didn’t allow 31 points, they freely gave Miami about 21 of those points with self-inflicted errors, they only “allowed” about 10.

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43 minutes ago, Doc Brown said:

I understand the league's reasoning but it doesn't mean the league was right.  No matter what they did besides actually resuming the game somebody was going to feel more screwed than others.  Heck, even KC fans are whining that they won't get to host the AFC Championship game if we make it there.

Agree. The only perfect solution was playing the game. Otherwise there were going to be “ inequities”. I’d have to think that if the situation had occurred in say, the first week of December the game would have been made up. With just one more week to go, resuming the game would have meant delaying the entire playoff schedule or reworking the format altogether. Those ideas were jettisoned in favor of certain adjustments if a few scenarios came about. They did the least amount of modification possible, but definitely not perfect. 

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2 hours ago, BillsShredder83 said:

dont forget detectives

Don't forget the geniuses who were telling me, a few hours ago, that we will be playing Jacksonville, not the Bengals.


At least that happy horse doo doo is done with now.

 

 

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