{"id":1799015,"date":"2023-01-08T10:04:28","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T15:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1799015"},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:04:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T15:04:41","slug":"bengals-head-coach-zac-taylor-blasts-the-nfls-playoff-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bengals-head-coach-zac-taylor-blasts-the-nfls-playoff-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals Head Coach Zac Taylor Blasts the NFL\u2019s Playoff Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbengals-head-coach-zac-taylor-blasts-the-nfls-playoff-changes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1799015&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Z6E6IVOZMNHPDDKTTIELYD4OEM.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">CINCINNATI WXIX &#8211; Team Owners Friday Approved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox19.com\/2023\/01\/06\/bengals-bills-game-officially-canceled-all-implications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plan for AFC playoff seeding and game locations<\/a> Move forward Thursday Night by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Bengals It is understandable that the organization is unhappy about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Plan, per Goodell, ostensibly \u201caddresses the most significant potential equitable issues\u201d And \u201cminimize[s] competitive inequities\u201d created by the league\u2019s unprecedented cancellation of the Bengals-Bills game. \u201cI recognize that there is no perfect solution,\u201d Goodell said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">But it\u2019s the Bengals Whoever gets the short end of a stick is disadvantaged in many ways.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt seems like there are positives for a lot of teams and just negatives for us,\u201d Bengals Head Coach Zac Taylor  Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Bengals (11-44) have secured the AFC North Division title over the Ravens (11-6) by virtue winning percentage, which is how titles are given in unusual cases according to the NFL rules book.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Even If the Bengals Lose to the Ravens On Sunday at Paycor Stadium\u2014and the Chargers (10-6) beats the Broncos (4-12)\u2014the site for what would be a Bengals-Ravens A coin flip would determine the winner of the wild-card round rematch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cSo we have the opportunity to play for a coin flip that can only negatively impact us,\u201d Taylor said. \u201cWe don\u2019t have the ability to play for a coin flip that can positively impact us? Again, let\u2019s just follow the rules.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Consider You can also use the Bengals The Bills (12-3) Both winners will be matched in the divisional round. Cincinnati Would travel to Buffalo Even though the decision to place the game was previously made by the Monday Night Football Annulled game<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Bengals Running back Joe Mixon The plan was met with skepticism by the public Thursday night, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Joe_MainMixon\/status\/1611212660271374336?s=20&#038;t=LBxojhRkAvgsQ-MxM_fMEg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeting <\/a>the league\u2019s preexisting policy for cancelled games: \u201cIf a game is cancelled,\u201d The policy reads: \u201ca team\u2019s standing in its division or in its conference [&#8230;]shall be determined on the basis of its final record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Said Mixon, \u201cSo we not following the rules no more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Bengals Executive Vice President Katie Blackburn, who is on the NFL\u2019s competition committee, fought back against the plan earlier in the week. She A memo was sent out to the rest. Thursday It is important to urge them to reject it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">ESPN\u2019s Ben Baby <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/35388199\/bills-bengals-game-not-resume-amid-damar-hamlin-continued-recovery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a>: \u201c[&#8230;]<i>Blackburn urged the committee members to vote against the scenarios. Her reasoning stemmed from the timing of a rule change away from the standard of winning percentages used in this scenario.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><i>\u2018The proper process for making rule change (sic) is in the off-season,\u201d Blackburn wrote. \u201cIt is not appropriate to put teams in a position to vote for something that may introduce bias, favor one team over another or impact their own situation when the vote takes place immediately before the playoffs.\u2019\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Taylor commended Blackburn\u2019s memo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThat\u2019s awesome,\u201d He said. \u201cThey\u2019ve got this team\u2019s back. It\u2019s important for the team to know that, because somebody\u2019s got to fight for you, and it\u2019s clearly not coming from the league. It\u2019s nice to have our ownership and front office support the players like they have. That is important for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><b>[<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox19.com\/2023\/01\/06\/bengals-refund-tickets-parking-fees-canceled-bengals-bills-game\/\"><b>Bengals to refund tickets, parking fees for canceled Bengals-Bills game<\/b><\/a><b>]<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Taylor The following was noted: Bengals Just \u201cwant the rules to be followed. And when a game is cancelled, that you just turn to winning percentage to clarify everything so we don\u2019t have to make up the rules.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He continued: \u201cThere\u2019s several instances this season where the club is fined or people in our building are fined, and we are being told to follow the rules. It\u2019s black and white in the rulebook. So now, when we point out the rules, and you are told, \u2018We are going to change that,\u2019 &#8230;I don\u2019t want to hear about \u2018fair\u2019 and \u2018equitable\u2019 when that is the case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Bengals Play the Ravens On Sunday At 1 p.m. That\u2019s where the team\u2019s focus has turned, as wide receiver Tee Higgins Noted Thursday In the aftermath of Hamlin\u2019s awakening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cAt the end of the day we are professional football players, and we do have a job to do,\u201d He said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Taylor The irony of it all. Ravens game it\u2019s an opportunity to \u201creclaim the opportunity\u201d To play the wild-card round, Paycor Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe just have to turn our focus to getting ready for Baltimore and then do everything we can to control what we can control at that point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><i>See Is there a spelling or grammar mistake in our story? Please Include the title in your message <\/i><a href=\"mailto:d6577623.graytv.onmicrosoft.com@amer.teams.ms\"><i>click here<\/i><\/a><i> Report it.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\"><i>Copyright 2023 WXIX. All All rights reserved<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI WXIX &#8211; Team Owners Friday Approved plan for AFC playoff seeding and game locations Move forward Thursday Night by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. The Bengals It is understandable that the organization is unhappy about it. The Plan, per Goodell, ostensibly \u201caddresses the most significant potential equitable issues\u201d And \u201cminimize[s] competitive inequities\u201d created by the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1799018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[10546,3675,5458,4024,5639,11895,13462,3819,4656,13917],"class_list":["post-1799015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bengals","tag-blasts","tag-bongino","tag-coach","tag-head","tag-nfls","tag-playoff","tag-report","tag-taylor","tag-zac"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1799015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1799018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1799015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1799015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1799015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}