The Bengals were not pleased with the decision to let home-field advantage for a potential Ravens game by a coin toss.
They also weren’t pleased they lost their chance for the #1 seed.
Cincinnati Bengals head coach Zac Taylor isn’t happy with the NFL’s coin-flip decision.
The NFL approved several adjustments to its playoff rules on Friday in the wake of the Bengals’ canceled game with the Buffalo Bills after Bills safety Damar Hamlin sustained cardiac arrest on the field on Monday night. That game, which had playoff implications, was officially ruled a “no contest.”
Team owners voted to pass several rules to help fix the scenario, which included a potential neutral site game in the AFC championship. Another, which Taylor isn’t happy about, is a potential coin flip to determine who hosts a wild-card game between the Bengals and Baltimore Ravens.
The two teams will square off Sunday to conclude the regular season. If the Ravens win, the league will flip a coin to determine who hosts the playoff game. That is done instead of traditional rules that use winning percentages in the case of canceled games.
“As far as I’m concerned, we just want the rules to be followed,” Taylor said Friday, via the Cincinnati Enquirer. “When a game is canceled, you just turn to winning percentage to clarify everything so we don’t have to make up rules. There’s several instances this season when a club is fined or people in our building are fined and we’re being told, ‘Follow the rules. It’s black and white. It’s in the rulebook.’ So now when we point out the rules and you’re told, we’re going to change that, I don’t want to hear about fair and equitable when that’s the case.”
They won’t have to worry about it because they are handling business today.
Joe Mixon and the rest of the Bengals trolled Roger Goodell and NFL with a coin toss TD celebration.
