Ravens at Bengals game

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(01-04-2023, 05:37 AM)kevin Wrote: ****

Play-Offs do not make room for this Bills at Bengals game.  ***** Play-Offs scheduled for the next week, something The NFL can not change.   **** 

Now if NFL say they will resume game, that changes things. I don't see how NFL can. NFL says it won't be resumed this week.  NFL says week 18 goes on as normal.  NFL has Play-Offs the next week.  Unless NFL owns a Time Machine, there is no Time to play the majority of the Bills at Bengals not played.  

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There's a fallacy in these statements, Kevin. By the NFL's own rules, which were regurgitated in another thread, the dates for the playoffs can be moved. And Boomer Esiason himself recommended moving the playoffs. After all, at this point, the date and times and locales for the playoffs are not set. No one is certain at what stadium on what date and time a playoff game will take place at this time.

At this point, the NFL has listed the Bengals-Bills game as a "postponement," which means it will be played. What the NFL needs to do is show leadership and tell us whether or not the game actually will take place. Without that knowledge, one has no idea whether or not to rest their players. If the game does not take place, then certainly the Ravens gain nothing by playing their players.

One cannot make decisions without the NFL giving some certainty on whether or not the playoffs will be moved and the Bills-Bengals game will be concluded. It seems like they have their heads stuck in the sand right now. 

But because the NFL still labels the game a postponement, and because their rules actually call for the game to be concluded (although the commissioner can overrule), and because major figures are calling for the playoffs to be delayed and the Bills-Bengals game played next week, then I think teams at this point have to assume the game will be concluded.