This just keeps getting worse.
The Cincinnati Bengals (11-4) were essentially forced to forfeit their chance at the #1 seed (which we now know they wouldn’t have gotten) and a good chance at the #2 seed when the NFL imposed new rules to account for the unfinished game against the Buffalo Bills (12-3) following a scary injury to Bills safety Damar Hamlin.
A new report by ProFootballTalk’s Mike Florio suggests that the Bengals never would have...