NFL Schedule Options After Last Night

[cookinbrak]

18 minutes ago, toldozer said:

I would honestly cancel next weeks games.

Kansas city 1

Buffalo 2

Cinncy 3

Jaguars 4

Baltimore 5

Chargers 6

Pats 7 based on season point differentials 

Then same scenario in nfc. If anything is tied base it on pt differentials.  It will suck for some teams that still had a chance but none of them will probably be in a mental state to play this week especially teams that are already eliminated. I would push the playoffs back a week as well.

Why not cancel last week's games instead. No harm, no foul.

[TheSpecialJuan]

The NFL has announced Buffalo and Cincinnati's postponed Week 17 game will not be resumed this week. 

In a statement, the league said it has "made no decision regarding the possible resumption of the game at a later date." Perhaps the league is reserving the right to continue to contest if there is AFC seeding implications following Cincinnati's Week 18 game against the Ravens and Buffalo's date with the Patriots (which there will be), but it is certainly seeming like this game will eventually be declared a no contest. That would mean all Week 17 fantasy results are final. The only alternative would be creating a "Week 19," bumping back the playoffs by a week and eliminating the pre-Super Bowl bye week. The league has no good choices as the football world waits for more news on Damar Hamlin's status. Our thoughts remain with Hamlin, his family and teammates. 

[Randolph Panther]

At this point unless they cancel the game somehow the only way is going to be pushing it back by a week.  With so much on the line I find it hard to believe it gets canceled.  Seeds 1-3 are still very much in play.  For Cincy, it would mean the difference between playing a home second round game against Buffalo or going on the road.  

[Wolfcop]

Though I would directly benefit by this game being cancelled (I would lock up my FF Championship), I do not see it as fair to the other teams in contention for the top seeds. The game should be played IMO. 

[KillerKat]

12 minutes ago, TheSpecialJuan said:

The NFL has announced Buffalo and Cincinnati's postponed Week 17 game will not be resumed this week. 

In a statement, the league said it has "made no decision regarding the possible resumption of the game at a later date." Perhaps the league is reserving the right to continue to contest if there is AFC seeding implications following Cincinnati's Week 18 game against the Ravens and Buffalo's date with the Patriots (which there will be), but it is certainly seeming like this game will eventually be declared a no contest. That would mean all Week 17 fantasy results are final. The only alternative would be creating a "Week 19," bumping back the playoffs by a week and eliminating the pre-Super Bowl bye week. The league has no good choices as the football world waits for more news on Damar Hamlin's status. Our thoughts remain with Hamlin, his family and teammates. 

So basically what I said.

[kungfoodude]

39 minutes ago, toldozer said:

I would honestly cancel next weeks games.

Kansas city 1

Buffalo 2

Cinncy 3

Jaguars 4

Baltimore 5

Chargers 6

Pats 7 based on season point differentials 

Then same scenario in nfc. If anything is tied base it on pt differentials.  It will suck for some teams that still had a chance but none of them will probably be in a mental state to play this week especially teams that are already eliminated. I would push the playoffs back a week as well.

Cancel an entire week of games???

Lol. I didn't think there would be a less likely scenario than moving the entire playoff schedule but you found one.

So you think a multi-billion dollar industry is just going to willingly give up(using some figures from 2020) roughly half a billion dollars in revenue? 

[SmokinwithWilly]

52 minutes ago, Brooklyn 3.0 said:

The yellow team only has 10 men on the field. Their coach needs to go.

Deep safety to cover the long bomb. White team is up 90 in the 1st quarter. Maybe yellow needs another 10. 

[Sgt Schultz]

7 minutes ago, SmokinwithWilly said:

Deep safety to cover the long bomb. White team is up 90 in the 1st quarter. Maybe yellow needs another 10. 

If that is true, the yellow team is following "the process."

[YourLastThought]

1 hour ago, Brooklyn 3.0 said:

The yellow team only has 10 men on the field. Their coach needs to go.

The yellow team must be coached by Matt Rhule.

Edited January 3, 2023 by YourLastThought

[Carolina Cajun]

My solution is no by week to super bowl, next week as normal, following week only the bengals and bills play in a very meaningful game, and on top if that will likely have viewership that would only be topped by the superbowl after what happened yesterday.  The event would be something every nfl fan would tune in for.  Nfl doesn't want to lose money, but with the attention that would be paid to that game would essentially give the nfl a third championship game (and frankly, I think it would he hire than either afc or nfc champ, the casual train wreck fans would tune in as well).  It's heartless, but it would print money and that's the language that the nfl owners underatand.

[Cdparr7]

I think you give the clubs the option of a tie and if they don’t take it then do a coin flip.  I hate what happened to Damar, I really do.
 

But, throwing the entire NFL season off due to a freak accident is going a little overboard. Canceling or postponing the season isn’t going to make him get better. In all the tackles that has ever happened it was just a freak accident. If any of you wreck and die on the interstate they are going to move you out of the way and let traffic resume. 

Making the players sit around and dwell on it isn’t going to make it any better either, I feel like the competitor that the young man is, he would want the team to go out there and compete.

[Waldo]

I like the idea that they can just call it a tie after next week if it doesn't have a big enough impact on seeding. IDK what the hell they will do if they have to play it after week 18. Sounds like they intend to resume the game and not start a new one so that is also a huge unknown with a whole other game in-between. I'd take the tie and just focus on the playoffs but that's just me. 

[Cdparr7]

In 2012 Javon Belcher stayed up all night drinking with prostitutes, murdered his girlfriend in front of his mom, drove to the practice facility, and shot himself in the head in front of teammates, the GM, and Romeo Crennel in the player parking lot.
 

The next day they played us. They were 2-10 and we were 3-9.

Edited January 3, 2023 by Cdparr7
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[LinvilleGorge]

33 minutes ago, Carolina Cajun said:

My solution is no by week to super bowl, next week as normal, following week only the bengals and bills play in a very meaningful game, and on top if that will likely have viewership that would only be topped by the superbowl after what happened yesterday.  The event would be something every nfl fan would tune in for.  Nfl doesn't want to lose money, but with the attention that would be paid to that game would essentially give the nfl a third championship game (and frankly, I think it would he hire than either afc or nfc champ, the casual train wreck fans would tune in as well).  It's heartless, but it would print money and that's the language that the nfl owners underatand.

And even that is far from perfect. Now every team in the playoffs gets a bye week before the first round  except for the Bills and Bengals. And honestly if you're a team with a bye I'm not sure if you want to sit for three weeks. That's a lot of time between games.