Payments-Bengals sport canceled, golf equipment to think about impartial website for AFC Championship sport

WEEK 17 BUFFALO-CINCINNATI GAME WILL NOT BE RESUMED

CLUBS TO CONSIDER NEUTRAL SITE AFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME

The NFL introduced at the moment that the Week 17 Buffalo Payments at Cincinnati Bengals sport is not going to be resumed and has been cancelled.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell knowledgeable all golf equipment of his resolution earlier at the moment, after talking with the Payments, the Bengals and NFL Gamers Affiliation management.

“This has been a really troublesome week,” Goodell stated. “We proceed to concentrate on the restoration of Damar Hamlin and are inspired by the enhancements in his situation in addition to the super outpouring of help and look after Damar and his household from throughout the nation. We’re additionally extremely appreciative of the wonderful work of the medical personnel and commend every considered one of them.”

Among the many key components in arriving at this resolution:

• Not enjoying the Buffalo-Cincinnati sport to its conclusion could have no impact on which golf equipment qualify for the postseason. No membership would qualify for the postseason and no membership will likely be eradicated based mostly on the end result of this sport.

• It might require suspending the beginning of the playoffs for one week, thereby affecting all 14 golf equipment that qualify for postseason play.

• Making the choice previous to Week 18 is in step with our aggressive ideas and permits all golf equipment to know the playoff prospects previous to enjoying the ultimate weekend of normal season video games.

Cancelling the sport between the Payments and Bengals creates potential aggressive inequities in sure playoff eventualities. In an effort to mitigate these inequities, NFL golf equipment will think about tomorrow in a Particular League Assembly a decision really useful by the Commissioner and permitted at the moment by the Competitors Committee, consisting of two parts:

1. The AFC Championship Recreation will likely be performed at a impartial website if the taking part groups performed an unequal variety of video games and each might have been the primary seed and hosted the sport had all AFC golf equipment performed a full 17-game common season. These circumstances contain Buffalo or Cincinnati qualifying for the sport as a street staff and are listed under:

Situation 1

Buffalo and Kansas Metropolis each win or each tie – a Buffalo vs Kansas Metropolis championship sport can be at a impartial website.

Situation 2

Buffalo and Kansas Metropolis each lose and Baltimore wins or ties – a Buffalo vs Kansas Metropolis championship sport can be at a impartial website.

Situation 3

Buffalo and Kansas Metropolis each lose and Cincinnati wins – a Buffalo or Cincinnati vs Kansas Metropolis championship sport can be at a impartial website.

2. If Baltimore defeats Cincinnati in Week 18 it is going to have defeated Cincinnati, a divisional opponent, twice however won’t be able to host a playoff sport as a result of Cincinnati could have the next successful share for a 16-game schedule than Baltimore will for a 17-game schedule.

If Baltimore defeats Cincinnati and if these two golf equipment are schedule[d] to play a Wild Card sport in opposition to each other, the location for that sport can be decided by a coin toss. If Cincinnati wins the Week 18 sport or if Baltimore and Cincinnati usually are not scheduled to play each other within the Wild Card spherical, the sport websites can be decided by the common scheduling procedures.

“As we thought of the soccer schedule, our ideas have been to restrict disruption throughout the league and reduce aggressive inequities,” Goodell stated. “I acknowledge that there isn’t a excellent resolution. The proposal we’re asking the possession to think about, nonetheless, addresses essentially the most important potential equitable points created by the troublesome, however mandatory, resolution to not play the sport below these extraordinary circumstances.”