01-06-2023, 09:28 AM
To me it's nonsensical to have teams flip a coin for anything when they're not the teams involved in what created the issue. This is obviously not any benefit to Cincy period. They're in a must win game now and possibly being told that 2 days prior to the game when they were on a short week to begin with. Seems to me alot of people are forgetting Cincy was involved in this as well. Just 2 days ago I saw Burrow and Reader both say there's teammates that didn't even want to play this weekend and you drop this on them with 48 hours to go. Why bother giving them the division til the seeding is decided? Because all that will potentially mean is tougher opponents next year while losing your home game after you already gave up 1 home game and played 2 more road games. There was idiots out there blaming this on Tee and saying Hendrickson Hurst and the Bengals were playing dirty. Yea its bs but its still out there and obviously was heard by the locker room as Boyd at the very least addressed it which doesnt help the mindset in the slightest. Tee knew and was friends with the guy along with other Bengal players, Boyd and Adomitis that I know of. Even not knowing him though that's a huge thing to have to mentally deal with and be told on an already short week 48 hours prior to a game that this is what your situation is, and oh by the way, the biggest thing you had left to play for is now off the table.
Is the biggest thing KC Buf and Bal had to play for off the table? No, Simple as that. It's bs. If you're gonna flip a coin do it for the game that was canceled. Makes everything simple, it's the easiest way to move forward where everyone knows where they stand and what's at stake. My only concession would be why not make it best of 3 for Buff and not Cin, where Buff has to win 2 straight flips and Bengals just 1. I'll give my reasoning. 1 game was in Cincy and the place was electric. 2. The time of the incident Cincy is ahead 7-3 and possess the ball just outside of scoring range. 3. It wasn't their player that was the cause of this terrible situation.
The last one is just observational. Wouldn't be included in reasoning officially but probably should have some weight in the conversation. 4. It was pretty apparent the Bills were going to have a very tough time covering the Bengals or stopping their offense in general. Became apparent on the very 1st play when their best cb was beat deep even though he gave an 8 yard cushion to Chase and had to grab him to prevent a td. What followed was Cincy targets getting open pretty easily, Burrow looked to be sharp hitting Boyd in the face with the TD, the oline getting movement and Mixon and the run game working as well. Hurst had a big play Tee had 2 catches one for pretty big yardage Chase drew a long p.i. Boyd had the beautiful TD and Mixon had already ripped off runs of 7 and 9. On the other side Buff offense looked good as well but we had seen Allen off on 2 throws already. 1 to Beasley that wasn't that far off but enough that the usually sure handed Beasley couldn't grab it and the other he was way off, the ball coming up way short and off target. Advantage Bengals. Could things have changed in the game? Sure, Buffalo had already lost another dB in the game before the Hamlin situation occurred so that wouldn't have helped stopping the Bengals offense too much. Given that it wasn't a Bengals player, it was their home game, they were ahead looking to extend that lead and looked very good while doing it. I would say it would be fair to have Buffalo need to win 2 coin flips and Bengals just 1. With all the analytics these days I'm sure the Bengals win % at the time of the game being stopped was higher than the Bill's so it's pretty obvious to me that any decision made on the method used to get the outcome should favor the team that had the higher chance of winning, right? It's absolutely ridiculous that every team this resolution has a direct impact on still has a chance at reaching the best outcome they had for the regular season/seeding going into the Bengals Bill's game besides the Bengals. I hope Katie or whoever puts up a fight against this because it's far from fair and mentions the fact they're the only team losing the ability to achieve their best finish going into the game. I can't see other teams seeing that as OK if it's brought to light. If this had been a game called because a Bills player caught covid there would have been a much different result. Not to be insensitive to the situation but it was a Bill's player that was the reason the game couldn't continue, it is what it is and that matters so I really hope they bring up the right issues during these conference calls meetings or whatever they have going on to decide this and do some politicking to get others on board about the bs it is.
Is the biggest thing KC Buf and Bal had to play for off the table? No, Simple as that. It's bs. If you're gonna flip a coin do it for the game that was canceled. Makes everything simple, it's the easiest way to move forward where everyone knows where they stand and what's at stake. My only concession would be why not make it best of 3 for Buff and not Cin, where Buff has to win 2 straight flips and Bengals just 1. I'll give my reasoning. 1 game was in Cincy and the place was electric. 2. The time of the incident Cincy is ahead 7-3 and possess the ball just outside of scoring range. 3. It wasn't their player that was the cause of this terrible situation.
The last one is just observational. Wouldn't be included in reasoning officially but probably should have some weight in the conversation. 4. It was pretty apparent the Bills were going to have a very tough time covering the Bengals or stopping their offense in general. Became apparent on the very 1st play when their best cb was beat deep even though he gave an 8 yard cushion to Chase and had to grab him to prevent a td. What followed was Cincy targets getting open pretty easily, Burrow looked to be sharp hitting Boyd in the face with the TD, the oline getting movement and Mixon and the run game working as well. Hurst had a big play Tee had 2 catches one for pretty big yardage Chase drew a long p.i. Boyd had the beautiful TD and Mixon had already ripped off runs of 7 and 9. On the other side Buff offense looked good as well but we had seen Allen off on 2 throws already. 1 to Beasley that wasn't that far off but enough that the usually sure handed Beasley couldn't grab it and the other he was way off, the ball coming up way short and off target. Advantage Bengals. Could things have changed in the game? Sure, Buffalo had already lost another dB in the game before the Hamlin situation occurred so that wouldn't have helped stopping the Bengals offense too much. Given that it wasn't a Bengals player, it was their home game, they were ahead looking to extend that lead and looked very good while doing it. I would say it would be fair to have Buffalo need to win 2 coin flips and Bengals just 1. With all the analytics these days I'm sure the Bengals win % at the time of the game being stopped was higher than the Bill's so it's pretty obvious to me that any decision made on the method used to get the outcome should favor the team that had the higher chance of winning, right? It's absolutely ridiculous that every team this resolution has a direct impact on still has a chance at reaching the best outcome they had for the regular season/seeding going into the Bengals Bill's game besides the Bengals. I hope Katie or whoever puts up a fight against this because it's far from fair and mentions the fact they're the only team losing the ability to achieve their best finish going into the game. I can't see other teams seeing that as OK if it's brought to light. If this had been a game called because a Bills player caught covid there would have been a much different result. Not to be insensitive to the situation but it was a Bill's player that was the reason the game couldn't continue, it is what it is and that matters so I really hope they bring up the right issues during these conference calls meetings or whatever they have going on to decide this and do some politicking to get others on board about the bs it is.
