01-06-2023, 07:27 PM
(01-06-2023, 07:15 PM)Soonerpeace Wrote: I can certainly understand that thought process. But my inside info says no. It was unprecedented so frankly there was some chaos. Normally they do resume in 5 minutes but the officials and head coaches all deemed it better to go to their locker rooms. The NFL office then got in contact all parties agreed to cancel the game. There was never any pressure from the NFL to finish the game.
I don’t know how else they could have done it. I know forfeit was on the table But I’m not a buyer let’s punish the Bengals for not playing the game. Do I think all the other teams that would be involved in all the scenarios are more favored? Yes
Oh, I don't think they were forceful or threatening about it. I do, however, believe that playing on Monday was the league's desired outcome. There's no way they had the balls to push it with any weight. They aren't that dumb.
I absolutely do believe that the seeding agreement is a veiled way of discouraging teams from doing what the Bengals and Bills did at some point in the future.
It's like a place I used to work. The roads would ice over once or twice a year. Lots of businesses would cancel work for inclement weather, my employer, almost without exception would not. One winter, we had a big storm. People got snowed in overnight at work. Then we had another event. This time was different. Work was not called off, but about 30 percent of the workers stayed home. They couldn't staff the place to run with a skeleton crew. Work was called off. The company said it was in the interest of worker safety. What actually happened was a major change. Workers forced it. From that point on, they would call off production in inclement weather for extreme circumstances, knowing that people would just stay home.
This is what happened Monday. It was the start of a new era in the league where players and coaches could seemingly not play if enough of them decided they wouldn't. The league won't give in as the employer did in my example, but they will enact countermeasures. Our seeding is the first countermeasure.
