01-04-2023, 09:08 PM
(01-04-2023, 08:42 PM)BIGDADDYFROMCINCINNATI Wrote: Right, as of 5:37pm on Wednesday the 4th of January the NFL stats "Talks have just begun... "
Also, you notice they really just talk about the game being canceled and playoff seeding scenarios and zero talks of when it could be replayed. A decision won't be announced until Sunday after the Bills/ Pats and Bengals/Ravens games. Too much revenue out there for these games to have a perception of meaning nothing. Cynical and harsh but a 100% truth bomb. It's just the way the world works.
If that were true, that the NFL will wait for the weekend games to be played and then announce a decision on the postponement, then they open themselves up to serious criticism that the NFL bureaucrats are deciding what they want the number 1, 2, and 3 seeds to be.
Say KC and Buffalo both win and the NFL then comes out and says the Bengals-Bills game will not be completed. Then they can be criticized as wanting the Bills to be the number one seed. Or say the Bills and Chiefs both lose and the Bengals win and then they say the Bengals-Bills game will be played; then they can be viewed as not wanting the Bengals to be the number one seed, because by some accounts they win the tiebreakers. What if the Ravens beat the Bengals (God forbid) and they then decide the Bengals-Bills game will be completed or not completed. There are numerous such scenarios where the perception will be, if the NFL waits for the final weekend games to be completed, that the NFL is deciding things based on who they want as number 1, number 2, number 3, division winner, etc.
If the NFL doesn't want to be looked at as deciding who they want as home teams in the playoffs, they need to tell the teams before the weekend what their plan is for the Bengals-Bills game. Deciding after the fact makes it look like they viewed the seedings and then factored that in to their decision on whether or not to complete the Bengals -Bills game.
I personally think the NFL will reveal their decision before the weekend. Too many sportscasters are proposing solutions to get the Bengals-Bills game in. And at some point, the NFL leadership will realize that if they wait until after the weekend to announce, then they are setting the rules after the games are played and the results are in.
