Bills-Bengals matchup highlights divisional-round slate

The Buffalo Bills and Cincinnati Bengals will meet in the AFC divisional round weeks after their regular-season matchup was ruled a no-contest after Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field.

The Bengals will travel to Buffalo to play the Bills at Highmark Stadium. Their Week 17 matchup was played at Paycor Stadium and was stopped toward the end of the first quarter when Hamlin collapsed on the field after making a tackle on Tee Higgins. Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest and needed his heartbeat restored on the field. He was discharged from the hospital less than two weeks later.

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Emotions are sure to run high as the incident sparked an outpouring of emotion among the players on the field and around the NFL world who watched the harrowing play.

Hamlin watched the Bills defeat the Miami Dolphins in the wild-card matchup.

The Bengals used a Sam Hubbard fumble return for a touchdown to win their game against the Baltimore Ravens. Cincinnati is the defending AFC champion.

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On the other side of the AFC, the Kansas City Chiefs will host the Jacksonville Jaguars. The Chiefs were the No. 1 seed in the playoffs and had a first-round bye. The Jaguars completed a 27-point comeback to beat the Los Angeles Chargers.

The NFC still has one playoff game to be figured out between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Dallas Cowboys. The winner will play the San Francisco 49ers, who bounced the Seattle Seahawks.

The Philadelphia Eagles will host the New York Giants. The Eagles are the No. 1 seed in the NFC and had a first-round bye as well.

Here’s how the divisional-round schedule will shake out. All times are Eastern.

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Saturday, Jan. 21

4:30 pm: Chiefs vs. Jaguars (NBC)

8:15 pm: Eagles vs. Giants (FOX)

Sunday, Jan. 22

3 pm: Bills vs Bengals (CBS)

6:30 pm: 49ers vs. Buccaneers/Cowboys (FOX)

Dolphins' Mike McDaniel: 'Miscommunication' led to crucial delay of game penalty toward end of game

Miami Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel addressed his play calling toward the end of the team’s 34-31 loss to the Buffalo Bills – specifically a fourth-down play in which they were called for delay of game.

Dolphins quarterback Skylar Thompson was trying to lead the team down the field with 4:13 remaining in the game to at least get the tie and force overtime against the Bills in the AFC wild-card matchup. Thompson and the Dolphins had the ball on the 48-yard line when confusion appeared to rise.

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Miami running back Salvon Ahmed ran the ball on third down for no gain, though it appeared he was at least close to the first-down marker. As the play clock began to tick down, Thompson and the team waited a long time for the play to come in. Thompson would get the team ready but the play clock was winding down and hit zero before the ball was snapped.

The Dolphins received a delay of game penalty and Thompson’s next play was incomplete to Mike Gesicki. The Bills would take over and end the game on their next possession.

McDaniel’s decision-making was scrutinized on social media and he had the opportunity to address it in the postgame press conference.

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"There was some crowd noise that had to do with mishearing some digits of the wristband," McDaniel said after the game. "There was some issues within the huddle of communication and getting to the line of scrimmage and there was the excuse that you don’t use that you don’t use but is a real compounding variable is there was a multiple amount of different people in the huddle when you’re in a nice routine and you have maybe a group of offensive linemen that are being communicated to by the same person; when you have flux like that, it happens. It shouldn’t happen as much as it did.

"And then the last one in particular had to do with whether it was officials or coaching, there was some communication that we’d gotten first down. So then we were deploying a group of players for the first-and-10 call and then it was articulated that no, it was fourth down. So that miscommunication – that’s all the stuff that you do in this business, is you never stop finding the things that you can improve on and it was a piece of the reason why we were unable to come out with a victory, but it definitely wasn’t the only reason. There was a lot of people who can find several things that they could do better including myself which we will do pressing forward."

Miami was 4-for-16 on third down overall. The team had 231 total yards and averaged 3.3 yards per play.