On to Miami

[Tunescribe]

Given that we have a bye, I'm wondering if they will concede the #1 seed in the interest of getting some people healthy, especially if the Bengals win Monday.

The Bengals aren't winning in Denver with McCarron at QB.

 

[A Defiant Goose]

This season has shown how stupid it is to have a week 4 bye. Especially when you have teams playing Thursday Night Football games every week. Hopefully, some day the NFL will make an actually useful rule change and have week 9 set as a permanent bye for all teams. Or weeks 8 and 9. The Patriots have played 12 straight damn games. Imagine if they weren't getting a bye week, they'd have to play 17 straight games to win the Super Bowl. So ****ing ******ed.

 

[SomePatsFan13]

This season has shown how stupid it is to have a week 4 bye. Especially when you have teams playing Thursday Night Football games every week. Hopefully, some day the NFL will make an actually useful rule change and have week 9 set as a permanent bye for all teams. Or weeks 8 and 9. The Patriots have played 12 straight damn games. Imagine if they weren't getting a bye week, they'd have to play 17 straight games to win the Super Bowl. So ****ing ******ed.

Could just shorten the season.

 

[JMC00]

The Bengals aren't winning in Denver with McCarron at QB.

I give him a decent chance. Denver's offense hasn't been exactly rolling with Osweiler.

 

[YOUGOTMOSSED]

I'm not going to feel good going into the playoffs if we can't beat Miami's backup QB (assuming Tannahill is done).

However, we could still get the #1 seed with a loss in Miami. I fully expect Denver to beat the Bengals tomorrow but there's a real chance that the Chargers (with extra rest from playing on Thursday) can upset Denver playing on short rest.

 

[jmt57]

Patriots-Dolphins will remain an early (1:00 pm ET) game.

Week 17 Flex Schedule

Minnesota at Green Bay will be the Sunday night game.

Jets at Buffalo, Baltimore at Cincy, Pitt at Cleveland are all 1:00 games.

Oakland at KC, SD at Denver among the late games.

No announcements yet on what games will be on which network (other than SNF/NBC).

There is a very good chance that at least one of the early AFC games with playoff implications will be cross-flexed to FOX.