01-04-2023, 03:32 AM
(01-04-2023, 03:17 AM)Science Friction Wrote: One option that I have read that is being discussed is a "Week 19."
Again, from the zebras:
"One possible remedy is to push the playoffs out one week and removing the week off prior to the Super Bowl so that the Bills and Bengals would play a “Week 19” game. While that seems easy, it creates potential network conflicts by moving the playoff games that air in primetime slots. The extra week was a possibility during the 2020 season, but the league did several schedule moves to avoid doing that.
When the playoffs are scheduled, the league will not place a team in a game with less than 6 days’ rest. When introducing the Monday night wild card game in 2021, that meant that a team could not play that game and then be scheduled for a Saturday divisional playoff game. There could be some quick changes to the Ravens-Bengals and Patriots-Bills games to move them up to Friday, resuming the suspended game on Tuesday, and scheduling one or two wild card games (as needed, depending if the Bills clinch the #1 seed) on Monday."
I don't see that last option being viable. The Bengals and Bills would have to play 2 games in 5 days. And if the Bengals lost both games and wound up as a wild-card, it would be 3 games in 11 days.
