For those believing the Bengals got "hosed"

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(01-06-2023, 03:33 PM)PhilHos Wrote: Yep appease the Ravens, appease the Bills, but F@#$! the Bengals. :angry:

It doesn't totally **** the Bengals though, just kind of.

They could have forced both the Bengals and Bills to have a loss or the Bengals would have ended up losing to the Bills if they had played, and then if the Ravens beat the Bengals this week, they'd have landed in the wildcard with 0 chance of getting a home playoff game.

This would essentially still give the Bengals a chance to host a playoff game even if they lost to the Ravens because we don't know what the outcome of the Bills game was and they didn't force a loss for not playing.

What outcome would have been completely fair to every team?
Forcing both the Bengals and Bills to take a tie isn't fair to the Ravens.
Forcing both the Bengals and Bills to take a loss wouldn't be fair to either the Bengals nor Bills.
Some have argued that moving the playoffs back another week such that Bengals-Bills could be played next week would be unfair because it would give all the other playoff teams an extra week of playoff prep.