The Miami Dolphins managed to beat the New York Jets 11-6 to seal the No 7 seed in AFC. Kansas City Chiefs lead the conference with the Buffalo Bills and Cincinnati Bengals next.
The AFC Playoff Picture:
1) Kansas City Chiefs
2) Buffalo Bills
3) Cincinnati Bengals
4) Jacksonville Jaguars
5) Los Angeles Chargers
6) Baltimore Ravens
7) Miami Dolphins
Due to the teams’ unequal number of games played, the No. 1 seed Chiefs (14-3) cannot host the conference championship game against the Bills (13-3) after Buffalo defeated New England 35-23 on Sunday and Kansas City defeated Las Vegas 31-13 on Saturday.
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Following the abandonment of the Bills-Bengals game on Monday night after Buffalo safety Damar Hamlin passed out on the field, NFL owners approved a resolution on Friday that established new regulations for this postseason.
The Bills were trailing the Bengals 7-3 in the first quarter when Hamlin went into cardiac arrest and needed to be resuscitated after making a tackle. The league chose to cancel the game to avoid disrupting the start of the postseason and impacting the remainder of the playoff field.
The Bills would have received the top seed and home-field advantage all through playoffs if they had defeated the Bengals because a 24-20 victory in Kansas City in October gave Buffalo the advantage in the tiebreaker. The Miami Dolphins (9-8) will visit the Buffalo Bills in a wild-card game on the coming weekend since the Bills finished with the No. 2 seed.
When the Bengals defeated Baltimore by 27-16, the proposed coin toss to determine home advantage was done away with for the AFC wild-card game between the Ravens and the Bengals. The Ravens (10-7) are set to visit Cincinnati (12-4) in the coming week. Bengals players have also not been happy with the coin toss proposal, with running back Joe Mixon mocking the same on Sunday by flicking a coin and kicking it after scoring a touchdown.
