Doc Brown

Those posts were wrong. Bengals own the tie breaker with strength of victory. They're currently at .483 and we're at .479. There's no way for the Bills to top the Bengals in this category in week 18.

We should go all out to win regardless of the Chiefs outcome on Saturday.

I'd be most upset if I was a Bengals fan. They had the ability to win the division and the number two seed in their hands before the MNF game. Now they might not even get to host a playoff game if they lose against the Ravens and lose a coin flip despite technically winning the division. They also lost the ability to host the Bills in the divisional round if the Bills beat the Pats.

That's overall win percentage if I'm reading it correctly. The last thing NFL owners want is to vote against a new rule proposal that would be viewed as unfair to a team whose player almost died on the field. Not great optics.

I guess they should just put up a vote for AFC winning percentage to determine the seeding then.

We won by four. Relax. LOL. We can still host them if they by some miracle lose to the Raiders this Saturday. Go Stidham.

I don’t see how they could’ve made it any fairer. There wasn’t a perfect solution. Rumors are Indy.

On the bright side. An indoor Allen vs Mahomes battle would be so fun to watch.

Probably but the Chiefs gaining significantly on the Bills (and possibly Bengals) misfortune seems wrong. Especially since they lost to both. I don't see the downside of an eight team playoffs just this one year in the AFC just to avoid giving the Chiefs a bye week. Three games on Saturday. Three on Sunday. One on Monday. Sign me up. I'm sure the NFL and the tv networks won't mind.

Even reading it slowly another team could knock off the Chiefs in the divisional round in which case we'd still host the AFC Championship game if we make it that far. So in my mind there's not much difference between the 2 and the 3 seed. The home field advantage would be minimal in the divisional round between us and the Bengals IMO.

Home field really isn't what I'm thinking. It's more about only having to play one less game to reach the AFC Championship game (most likely the Chargers in the divisional round) and not having to face both the Chiefs and Bengals to get to the Super Bowl. Let them duke it out in the Divisional round.

Well aware of that. Having the one seed would make that much more likely though. Obviously.

Doubt it. The NFL's official website already has the scenario laid out as if they'd go by traditional win % meaning we have no shot at the one seed if KC wins on Saturday. They basically ripped the Bills controlling their own destiny for the one seed from their hands if they go by winning %. Unless they resume the Bills/Bengals game the following week there will definitely be a giant asterisk next to the AFC Champion this year.

We're not playing the Chiefs in the divisional round if we get the 2 or 3 seed.

The 4th seeded Bengals rested their starters in week 18 last year despite having a shot at the 3 seed.

Would you rather rest your starters against the Pats and likely play Baltimore as the #3 seed.......or win and likely play Miami?

I'm sure Eagles fans would love that. At this point there's a small part of me that wants us to play our backups or forfeit against the Pats just to tick off the Fins and their fans for their stadium design.

Will never happen. The closest third party challenger was Teddy Roosevelt who handed the presidency to Wilson by splitting the vote. That's exactly what would happen again.

Bengals fans are all class man.

Twitter isn't real life. Message boards aren't real life. Only AOL chat rooms qualify.

Who would play the 6 and 7 seed on Wild Card weekend then?

Not going to happen with this team. They're built like the early 90's team as far as character and resiliency is concerned. The culture the Bills have built since McDermott and subsequently Beane were hired will shine through this season.

Longest throw competition - Allen, Burrow, and Mahomes for one, two, and three seed.

In before the lock.

A Wednesday night game is probably what they'll do if we get good news with Hamlin. They'll pry push the Bills/Pats game and the Bengals/Ravens game to Monday night. During Covid the NFL was extremely aggressive to make sure all the games were played to the point where the Broncos had to start a practice squad WR at QB. I'm just guessing at this point though as it's an unprecedented situation.