BRH

I remember when that Jets assistant coach tripped a Dolphins' kick returner while he was running up the sideline. After the game, Crowder said, "I wish he'd have tried to trip me. I'd have broke that old man's leg."

I'm glad it's them.

Doubt that. Because a loss and a Cincy win means we would have to go back to Cincinnati for any playoff matchup. If we win, we’d host the Bengals. pretty sure the Bills don’t feel like going back to PayCor right now. now…. If it’s 41-0 at the half, then maybe. EDIT: it was the logical thing to do IMO, but good on the NFL for not giving any of these teams an incentive to rest their starters. KC has to win to get the 1 seed and the bye. Buffalo has to win to have a chance at home field or neutral turf for the AFCCG, and to play the Bengals at home. And the Bengals have to win in order to host the Ravens in the playoffs, among other things. Any number of ways the Shield could have gone that would have incentivized the Chiefs, Bills, and perhaps even the Bengals to rest their starters and mess with the other AFC teams' playoff chances.

They will, if these things happen: - Chiefs lose to Raiders - Bills lose to Pats - Bengals beat Ravens Then both teams are 12-4. Bengals get the 2 based on SOS tiebreaker and host Buffalo in any matchup. If the Bills beat the Pats, then the Bills will be 13-3 and Bengals 12-4 (or 11-5), and the Bills get the 2 seed and host Cincy in any matchup. It's really not that hard to understand. I don't get the logic behind just awarding home field to Cincinnati no matter what.

The fairest thing in ANY scenario is a neutral field. Point is, the Bills have more wins than the Bengals in the same number of games. There's no logical reason to make that a neutral field matchup.

Sucks to be them. Again, they went into the game with the fewest wins of the three teams. That's not either KC's or Buffalo's fault.

I get the knee-jerk reaction, but going into the weekend, Buffalo and KC had 12 wins and Cincinnati had 11. The Bengals' odds of getting the 1 seed were smaller to begin with. If the Bengals had been 12-3 going into the weekend, you would have seen a much more equitable distribution of playoff outcomes. But they weren't.

I do know. The game would be in Buffalo.

Right. And for a team that won the AFCCG on the road last year and has the fewest wins of the three teams involved, their fans are doing a lot of crying.

so of the possible outcomes - and taking game probabilities entirely out of the equation - the Chiefs get the 1 seed 75% of the time and the Bills get it 25%. Bills get 50% of the 2 seed possibilities with the other two teams getting 25% each. Bengals get the 3 seed 75% of the time and Bills 25%. Chiefs can’t get the 3, Bengals can’t get the 1, we can land anywhere between 1-3. A KC-Buffalo AFCCG is 50% likely to be at a neutral site, with Buffalo and KC having a 25% chance each of hosting. And KC is 87.5% likely to host a KC-Cincinnati AFCCG. Again, this doesn’t account for the actual game outcome probabilities. Bengals really don’t have a lot to complain about. They have more losses than either of the other two teams. If they were 12-3 instead of 11-4, this chart would look different. They can talk all day about how the first nine minutes of Monday’s game looked, but that doesn’t matter and I’m glad the NFL agreed. We were hurt too - we no longer control our own destiny. Tough to find a situation where KC has a right to complain, given that they got waxed by both of the other teams and will not have to play a true road game (again). I’m okay with it.

It would be just like the Chiefs to vote against something because it doesn’t give them EVERYTHING. They are terrified of playing anywhere but Arrowhead. And they should be.

This might very well be the clearest argument I’ve read. Although it could be argued that losing to the Vikings wasn’t a “poor” defeat. The way it happened was poor, yes, but the Vikings have 12 wins. You can’t compare that to losing to the Colts. still… no fumble on the goal line and this entire conversation isn’t even happening.

Huh. 10 years of my life went by just like that. I could have sworn it wasn’t that long ago. Oops.

I don't know if you guys caught the part where McD was listing the coaches he'd talked with since Monday who had gone through "similar" situations. He mentioned Joe Gibbs, Romeo Crennel, Mike Tomlin, and another that I can't recall at the moment. The name he didn't mention was Andy Reid. I thought that was interesting, given that they previously worked together and the Chiefs had the Jovan Belcher situation.

This is actually a good point and is why KC and their fans are absolutely terrified of any scenario in which they don't get HFA, even more than they otherwise would be.

I think McDermott was busy being there for his players. I don't know what McDermott you've been watching.

Yeah, I figured that out. Sorry, a little slow today. I just think tinkering with people's understanding of how seeds work is a recipe for confusion and mistrust. It's Solomonic. I don't think the #1 should get anything different -- just HFA and a bye like always. I'm not a fan of the neutral field idea either. Play the playoffs like always. HOW YOU FIGURE OUT WHO GETS THE #1 -- that's the only issue that should be in play and the league should have the stones to do that right, without all this other window dressing.

This is great but the flaw in your "logic" is that Mahomes will never go into concussion protocol. It'll be another "back injury" or maybe "turf toe" or whatever it was the Chiefs claimed caused his instability a couple of years ago.

Fixed There are only two kinds of #1 seeds: #1 seeds and not #1 seeds. I couldn't care less about a "pure" #1 seed, whatever the ***** that is.

For the next five weeks or so, yes.

I know it’s a minor thing. But I’m really glad he hasn’t been around asking questions this week.

we all know what 51-3 means around here

It's been said before, but what an incredible set of circumstances over the past several months: - the Tops shooting in June, which occurred just around the corner from the old Rockpile - having to play in 115-degree heat against a shadyed opponent, with an already-depleted defensive roster - losing Micah Hyde and Von Miller for the season - Dane Jackson's horrific injury and subsequent recovery - admit it, everyone thought he was done - Josh's elbow injury that originally was reported as a 2-4 week thing (he never missed a game) - the November snowstorm that stripped us of a home game - the December bomb cyclone that kept the team in Chicago another night and forced yet another round of digging out upon return - in addition to claiming at least 40 lives - Monday night, where a teammate literally died on the field before being brought back to life This can break a team, or it can make a team. The way this team has responded all year to adversity, I have no doubt it will be the latter. I haven't wanted to be at the stadium as much as I want to be at Sunday's game in a long, long while. They're going to absolutely blow the ***** doors off the Pats.

I assume they will be busy, but they should be recognized. As well as the doctors and nurses at UCMC.

I tend to compartmentalize so I haven't been overly emotional yet, but now I'm sitting here with tears streaming down my cheeks. It was @Bills!Win!'s "Heyyy-eyy-ey-eyy" that did it. Let's hope for continued good news.