People with the Cincinnati Bengals are sad with the NFL over its proposed playoff scenarios following the cancellation of this previous Monday’s Cincinnati-Buffalo Payments recreation.
“The right course of for making rule change (sic) is within the low season,” Bengals govt vice chairman Katie Blackburn wrote in a memo shared by Ben Baby of ESPN. “It isn’t applicable to place groups able to vote for one thing which will introduce bias, favor one staff over one other or impression their very own state of affairs when the vote takes place instantly earlier than the playoffs.”
Twenty-four of 32 league house owners should vote to approve the situations. That vote might be held Friday afternoon.
Monday’s Payments-Bengals encounter was suspended, postponed and finally canceled after Buffalo security Damar Hamlin went into cardiac arrest in the course of the contest’s first quarter. Hamlin had his breathing tube removed overnight and was capable of communicate with others as of Friday morning.
It was reported Thursday night {that a} coin flip may decide the placement of a possible wild-card recreation between the 11-4 Bengals and 10-6 Baltimore Ravens if Baltimore beats Cincinnati Sunday. The Ravens defeated the Bengals again in October however now mathematically don’t have any solution to catch the AFC North’s first-place staff through total information.
The league additionally stated it may maintain the AFC Championship Recreation at a impartial website if mandatory.
Nevertheless, Mike Florio of Professional Soccer Speak identified that the NFL already has insurance policies in place concerning in-season recreation cancellations.
“If a recreation is canceled, a staff’s standing in its division or in its convention (e.g., qualification as a Wild Card within the playoffs or place in playoff seeding) shall be decided on the idea of its closing report,” reads a portion of the league’s coverage guide for the 2022 marketing campaign. “When mandatory, playoff tiebreakers shall be calculated in accordance with per recreation common for all groups.”
As Reice Shipley famous for the Comeback, Bengals star operating again Joe Mixon lashed out on the proposals through Twitter:
