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Has there been any comment from Giff Smith on how he plans to use Ekeler? I can't see anything.

There is an interesting question here. Will Giff Smith repudiate the benching of Ekeler last week as being Staley's decision and return him to prominence? Or was it a front office decision whoever is coaching has to abide by?

I agree that the league office should have been the enforcers. But they froze, paralysed by fear. It shouldn't have been the coaches negotiating about what happens next. Someone had to be the voice of authority and tell everyone what happens next. Troy Vincent is not and could never be that...

The Bills refused to play, the difficult but correct response from the officials would have been to announce they forfeited. I think the Bengals were guilty of being too humane and were perhaps a little naive. When the Bills refused to play and a suspension was discussed, the Bengals were...

I agree they should have rescheduled it for Wednesday as suggested (or even Tuesday). But the reason they didn't is not because they were incompetent but because they were fearful. They thought they were going to get killed on social media for being heartless if they did (it would have been 'a...

What has also been repeated ad nauseum about the league is that their #1 concern was to address the "competitive inequities" created by the cancellation of the game. The number of games played point cited on the Bills/Bengals ignores the fact that an inequity was created by cancelling a game...

Neither Lamar nor Tua will likely feature this weekend. Fate may somehow be favouring a Bills and Bengals match-up in the next round. It feels unfair on the Bengals that the Bills host this, given they were leading in their abandoned game and would have displaced them as the no.2 seed had they...

Interestingly the Ravens are sitting most of their key players and are sending out a JV team against the Bengals, they have clearly come to the conclusion that it's not worth trying to win the game.

I just hope against hope that neither of the two diabolical new rules are triggered by the results, ie the Bengals beat the Ravens and thus there is no coin toss, and the Bills and Chiefs results this week work out so there won't be a potential neutral championship game venue.

Mental health? The league's prevarication, obfuscation, dithering and virtue-signalling has driven many of us nuts.

This might make sense to you now given the mess the league got itself into, but it doesn't make sense within the broader context, history and traditions of the NFL, which give the sport so much of its value. They threw away a century of history of NFL teams hosting championship games to move...

It was clearly the Bills that didn't want to continue, McDermott confirmed it. The Bengals were supportive but had the Bills wanted to play I think the Bengals would have played.

This omnishambles all stems from a failure of leadership on the night. The only conclusions to the situation on MNF should have been: 1) The game is completed or 2) There is a forfeit Without either of those, we were going to get this mess. This very modern 'suspension' leading to a...

Particularly since they are losing out big time because of this. They go from being on track to beat the Bills and potentially having a shot at the top seed to now having to beat Baltimore in order to avoid possibly going on the road against the Ravens in the wild card round.

Isn't the bad precedent that in the future games can be 'suspended' and create massive uncertainty for the league schedule whenever something bad happened? Guys are carted off regularly, games would always be continued before, even the previous one where another player had a heart attack they...

They did, but only after the Bills already said no. I think they would have played if the Bills had wanted to.

There are very clear rules already in place which called for the game to be finished within 2 days. Indeed, they arguably shouldn't even have been in that situation. It is very clear from McDermott's comments yesterday that the Bills basically refused to return to play on Monday night. At that...

The NFL is now contorting itself into ever greater complexities with its proposed solutions. Potentially a neutral ground for the AFC Championship Game. Potentially a coin toss for the location of the Baltimore Cincy playoff game. This is what happens when you start to make stuff up. You dig...

On the injustice to the Bills point, the McDermott comments today strongly suggest that it was the Bills who didn't want to continue the Bengals game after the injury, and that this was then communicated to the officials who agreed they couldn't force them to and thus suspended the game. So...

That's admirable but I don't think it's fair to exert moral pressure on other players to concede if they are ahead. It's just a hobby.