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Originally Posted by Rain Man
Change my username to Callous if you want, but I don't think the teams should be consulted on this. What if McDermott would prefer the unexpected bye week and a road game over a 50 percent chance of winning a bye week? Competitive factors come into play.
And is it only the Bills' decision, or do the Bengals have input? What if one team wants to play and the other doesn't?
I get that a team could conceivably forfeit any game, but if the Texans decide to forfeit next week because the game is pointless and they want to save some game checks, the league would/should pull their franchise. An NFL team is obligated to play the games that the league tells them to play, and while this situation is unfortunate, it's below the line at which the league's authority extends.
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This is above my paygrade, but I doubt BUF or CIN will be consulted on the details. The NFL will probably say at a certain point, "if you decide to play, these are the conditions under which that will happen. If you decide not to play, these are the ramifications of that choice." Bottom line, PROBABLY there will only be two choices to make for BUF and then how things go forward will be entirely up to the NFL.