In his weekly “Factoidness” section of Monday’s “Football Morning in America” column for NBC Sports, well-connected NFL reporter Peter King brought some clarity to the league’s deliberations about requiring some AFC playoff matchups to be played at a neutral site.
1. If the Cincinnati-Buffalo cancellation happened, say, in Week 5 versus Week 17, I think it’s likely the league could have found the time and place to make the game up and would have done so.
2. There was a motion to split the proposal — vote on the possible AFC neutral site for the title game, and vote for the Cincinnati-Baltimore coin-flip possibility separately — but it failed.