IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
Yes. They lost to both the Bills and Bengals. If the league does decide to just do seeding by win percentage, they'll be handed the #1 seed by virtue of a player on another team being gravely injured.Unearned?The Chiefs would already have the unearned benefit of the first round bye and they certainly shouldn't also get the unearned benefit of the home championship game.I’m not sure that “we shouldn’t punish the Bills, so let’s punish the Chiefs” is a reasonable alternative unfortunately.If the Bills and Chiefs play for the AFC Championship, it could be played in a neutral stadium to avoid punishing the Bills for last night's game.
I'm okay with that. There were no "fair" solutions to this after they made the decision to postpone the game. I was okay with postponing it, which means I have to be okay with a slightly unfair outcome. Assuming that the Chiefs and Bills both win this weekend (assuming), this outcome is basically the same as if we had just lost to Cincinnati*, which is not exactly a cosmic injustice all things considered. But yeah it's a bit of gift to the Chiefs. With any luck, we'll get a chance to settle it on the field of play.
* Edit: Actually, that's not really true. I think the "win %" outcome gives us the inside track to the #2 seed. A loss would have left us looking at the #3 seed instead. So the Bills aren't really being treated all that badly.