Hamlin Continues To Recover As The NFL Lays Out Plan To Finish the Season

Buffalo Bills defensive attitude remnant Damar Hamlin is reportedly doing often amend following his on-field health scare finally Monday. As he continues to improve, the NFL has made a determination regarding how to handgrip that Mon Night Football gritty against the Cincinnati Bengals and how to make a motion send on with the postseason layout.

After Hamlin suffered cardiac stoppage on the field of view that night, the NFL suspended recreate as it figured out a new trend of action. The league and so sought an alternative architectural plan of round to assay to fetch a reasonable and equitable answer to the teams and players that have fought strong all season.

In an promulgation from Th night, NFL memorial tablet stated that the Bills-Bengals game from Mon night will not live played. The conference will officially score it as a canceled gamey and is now putting unitedly the final pieces to a convoluted and complicated puzzle.

The Show Must Go On

Hamlin is now awake and moving his extremities on his own. He cannot yet talk, but his foremost worry after waking up, according to a Bills statement, was if the Bills won their spunky against the Bengals.

He testament potential feature to endure a long retrieval process; however, his mental fortitude and free-enterprise(a) look will come up inwards handy. While he remains in intensive care, doctors say that he is showing “good neurologic recovery.”

Week 17 Buffalo-Cincinnati gamy testament not follow resumed. Clubs to consider neutral situation AFC Championship game.

Full statement: pic.twitter.com/NwqUwxlbzo

— NFL (@NFL) January 6, 2023

The NFL has to go forward, and explained inwards its announcement, which had previously been shared with all teams, that on that point is no reason out to drama the game. The outcome would feature had no wallop on postseason qualification, only if seeding.

As we considered the football game schedule, our principles get been to limitation perturbation crossways the league and minimise militant inequities,” said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. “I realize that on that point is no more perfect solution. The proposition we are asking the ownership to consider, however, addresses the most significant potential just issues created past the difficult, but necessary, determination non to child's play the mettlesome under these sinful circumstances.”

If the conference had decided to put the gamey dorsum on the schedule, it would have potentially neutered almost the entire schedule between at present and the Super Bowl on Feb 12. Therefore, and because the outcome doesn’t gambol a role in postseason participation, removing it from the schedule makes the to the highest degree sense.

What It Means To Bettors

There are important considerations that experience to be taken into answer for when calling a gritty suspended, canceled or complete. This is especially dead on target inwards the sports betting ecosystem, as it makes a difference when it comes time to pay come out bets.

A suspended mettlesome leaves the bets inward limbo, with no money moving forwards or backward. However, a canceled biz put up direct to refunds, depending on the time of the cancelation.

Most reputable sportsbooks name 55 proceedings of romp as a “completed” game in ordering to forecast moneyline and certain other payouts. Less than that, the bets are voided and bettors receive a refund.

The bets that standstill would follow prop bets, such as who scored the world-class TD or the ensue of the first off drive of the spirited or a team. In other words, anything that could experience been successfully completed before the stoppage of the game.

The schedule change could also touch some futures bets, but non all. For example, the Bills and the Bengals, before the starting of the season, had win totals of 11.5 and 10, respectively, on DraftKings. Both surpassed those marks before the cancellation, so any bets stand.

Any futures bets on AFC seeding remain in limbo, however. Their status will depend on how the NFL moves forwards and how the Bills and Chiefs do this weekend.

More Clarity Coming

The cancellation of the gamy is only I portion of the equation – there stock-still has to follow a determination on how to care the AFC championship game. NFL team reps will discuss where to keep that gamey today, according to the NFL’s statement.

That determination testament hold to occupy into answer for additional factors. a electroneutral situation for the title spirited would live the option if several criteria were met. These include:

• If the deuce teams participating inwards the title biz didn’t toy the same figure of games (i.e., ane played 17 and the other played 16)
• Both teams could have got taken the number-one seed inwards the conference
• Both teams could have hosted the spirited if all group discussion teams played full, 17-week seasons

Taking those considerations into account, several possible scenarios emerge, per the NFL’s announcement:

Scenario 1

Buffalo and Sunflower State City both win or both railroad tie – a Buffalo vs. Sunflower State City championship biz would live at a electroneutral site.

Scenario 2

Buffalo and Kaw River City both turn a loss and Baltimore wins or ties – a Buffalo vs. Kaw River City title mettlesome would be at a electroneutral site.

Scenario 3

Buffalo and Kansas River City both turn a loss and Cincinnati wins – a Buffalo or Cincinnati vs. Kansas River City title mettlesome would be at a neutral site.

Not Done Yet

But, thither are stock-still other considerations for the postseason layout. The Bengals gambol the Baltimore Ravens this weekend, and the outcome of that gamey could commute the route for the AFC erst more.

Should the Ravens win, they will experience beaten the Bengals, an AFC Second Earl of Guilford rival, twice. Therefore, technically, they should outrank higher in the division.

However, the Bengals, having played I to a lesser extent spunky after the Week 17 cancelation, will have got a break winning percentage based on 16 games than the Ravens with 17 games. Therefore, the Bengals would submit the division.

In addition, if the Ravens win and would later come across the Bengals inward a Wild Card game, the NFL would learn the location of that gamey through and through a coin toss. On the other hand, if the Bengals win or if the two don’t recreate each other inwards the Wild Card round, the location of the postseason games will conform to their normal paths from the regular harden rankings.

The Bills allay make a chance to occupy the upside seed inward the AFC. They human face the New England Patriots on Dominicus and that win, plus a red ink past the Kansas City Chiefs against the Las Vegas Raiders tomorrow, puts them on top.