What would you like to happen?

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(01-03-2023, 05:09 PM)WeezyBengal Wrote: My biggest fear at this point is Buffalo trying to use this whole situation to their advantage.

There is more incentive for them to NOT PLAY this game and take a tie rather than to play it (down 7-3 and the Bengals threatening to score again) to try and claim the 1 seed.

If they lobby for a tie, it gives them the two seed, gives them one less game for their guys to get hurt, and eliminates the possibility of slipping to a 3 seed. Given how the game was going and the score, I think they'd be more than happy hanging on to the 2 seed rather than chancing it.

I hope I am wrong, but a tie really ***** over the Bengals here.

You're going to catch a lot of slack for sounding insensitive.  But as a lifelong Bengal fan, we're talkin since Boomer and James Brooks in '88, I don't fear that. 

I know that this Bengals team is quite remarkable and they've proven themselves to me their resiliency, their ability to defy the odds, to come in as underdogs and win in big time games.  I don't think it matters what seed they enter the playoffs as because they will play their asses off no matter what.  The same could be said about Buffalo.   So let the chips fall where they may.  

It was a huge game seeding wise and with playoff implications and we all wanted to see Who Dey beat Buffalo and earn our stripes and spot as the top dogs in the AFC.. but right now that's a mentality it's not an outcome.  And the mentality shifted from football to humanity in the 1st qtr.   We were all pumped up about the game though, I for one spent the whole week watching youtube takes, Allen vs Burrow videos, arguing with my friends that we're gonna win (I'm from Rochester, everybody here is a bills fan) I was extremely confident in the Bengals ability the whole time.  They looked freakin' sharp too really early.  I thought Burrow was going to put up 5 TDs and take over the MVP discussion... but that was all overshadowed so fast.  A man could have died.. Literally freakin' died on national television.  so that's where the focus is now, and rightfully so.  

Buffalo should give time to their players and we should respect whatever decision grown ass adults and teams agree to come to and take and if the NFL season resumes and we enter and start the playoffs..... "They still gotta play us. "