Do we have a chance for the #1 seed?

[Lansdowne]

After today I'm just hoping to win the division :explative

LOL, yup I'm with you there.

 

[Patriotic Fervor]

I understand that a win is a win, i didnt say that we didnt win today. That isnt the point. The point is we beat a team by 1TD today that we should have beat by more. The TO's dont stop coming.

Can we continue at the pace that we are going and expect to win the #1 seed? no.

Can we continue at the pace we are going and expect to win out? that is the question.

Why doesn't anyone comment on the fact that this team is coming off an emotionally-charged win over the Bears? They came out flat - that's all.

Look, it's a long season, and you can really only get a team "up" for an opponent 3 or 4 times in the course of that season. Some weeks you'll have a few guys carry team, and some weeks sheer professionalism carries the day, but every once in a while, everyone will come up flat. Happens to the best of 'em.

Don't worry - be happy!

 

[RayClay]

Why doesn't anyone comment on the fact that this team is coming off an emotionally-charged win over the Bears? They came out flat - that's all.

Look, it's a long season, and you can really only get a team "up" for an opponent 3 or 4 times in the course of that season. Some weeks you'll have a few guys carry team, and some weeks sheer professionalism carries the day, but every once in a while, everyone will come up flat. Happens to the best of 'em.

Don't worry - be happy!

This is the correct answer.

Everybody has their ups and downs. Winning is all that counts now, if we peak at the right time we've got as good a chance as anyone.

This guy Bill is a worry wart and he doesn't seem too upset:

"Just have to give our guys credit for stepping up and making plays there at the end of the game that we needed to make," coach Bill Belichick said. "Fortunately we made some at the end of the half as well. We kind of got our two-minute offense going and we were able to produce something with that. It's good to win. It's good to be 9-3."

 

[DisgruntledTunaFan]

Yeah, it seems far fetched at first, but check out the scheds the rest of the way for our competition:

Colts have 3 tough games left, can easily see them going 12-4:

at Jacksonville
Cincy
at Houston
Miami

Chargers have 3 tough games left:

Denver
Kansas City
at Seattle
Arizona

Baltimore clearly has the easiest sched of the teams, but still could find an L in there:

at Kansas City
Cleveland
at Pittsburgh
Buffalo

That Vince Young is something, isn't he? It wasn't that the Colts looked bad today, it was ALL Young. Indy will likely be 14-2. Same with SD. Balt will be 11-5.

 

[PatsFanInVa]

We don't know final records, or there'd be no point in playing the games. Us, the Jets, and the Ravens have it easiest among the contenders. We and the Ravens are closer than before this weekend, but you still have to bank on Indy losing 2 out of 4 of those games... I wouldn't count on it. In fact, I'd bet against it (effectively, Indy has a 2 game advantage, having beaten us.) If you throw in our own possibility of losing (Jax isn't a cakewalk, and has been recently shown, Tenn. can jump up and bite you in the patootie,) I'd call it extremely unlikely we get the 1 seed. I can see the 2 seed much more easily (13-3 record while Bolts go 12-4, or more likely, a tiebreaker with us both at 13-3, though I am sick to death of figuring out the SD/NE tiebreaker logic 4 games early.)

I will say this - having to win a tiebreaker at 13-3 to avoid playing in the wildcard round means something is very, very wrong with the NFL. Specifically, the NFC.

PFnV

 

[carolinatony]

Do we Clinch this week with a win and a Jet loss?