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Well hopefully we will get a chance to see him in live action for at least four quarters this year. If he holds up in that game and has an entire off season to get even healthier I will like his chances are even more.
I've decided that the Bills must at least go 3-3 in these next six games. Don't care how or who the wins come against, just go at least 3-3. With the Jags thrown in there, I'm basically asking them to go 2-3, a losing record against above average teams. If the Bills want to salvage the season and have a realistic shot at the postseason as the final three games come to play, they have to at least beat 2 out of 5 good teams and the Jags. Then you just lay it all out for the final three games and see where your record puts you at the end of the season.
Bumping me post from back in October. By the way, do the Bills EVER do better than .500 between the last week in October and the first week of December!? I swear that time period we are always a game below .500 at best and it's usually what costs us
Anyhow, some seven weeks ago I said we needed to go 3-3 over the next six games and we would still be very much in the playoff hunt. Looks like that can still be the case, question is, can we get past that final team, Pittsburgh, today?
We had very good chances to beat the Seahawks (final drive) and the Raiders (up 15 in the third quarter) both on the road. But it was not to be. It does turn out as well that the Bengals continue to be a poor team this year, so in reality we haven't beaten a single good team during this six game stretch. Today would be the first good team win all year if we can pull it out (not counting the first Pats game of course).
Wanted to do this before this game because if I wait till after it might be pointless.
1. With both Baltimore and Pittsburgh at 7-5, assuming Bills must win out and finish 10-6 to make the final wild card, should Baltimore lose Monday night at New England, Bills will be guaranteed to pass at least one of them in the playoff standings when the Pittsburgh and Baltimore play each other later in the year.
2. Should Miami lose today at home against the Cardinals, Bills will be guaranteed to surpass Miami in the playoff standings when they play their final head to head in Buffalo on Christmas Eve.
The first two are important because I believe the Bills cannot afford to end in a three way tie breaker. The tiebreaking procedures changes between 2 and 3 teams and I don't believe the Bills would do well with them. Now if the above does not happen today, there are still of course three more weeks for Balt/Pitt and Miami to drop down to 9-7 so not the end of the world.
3. The biggest obstacle (besides the Bills winning four straight) by far is surpassing Denver. The good news, they have probably the toughest schedule reaming in the NFL. Tenn, New England, KC, Oakland. However, we either need them to lose 3 or 4 and fall to 9-7 or finish 10-6 but they would have to specifically lose to New England and Oakland because at 10-6 we would beat them on the common games tie breaker 3-2 to 2-3. If they finish 10-6 by losing to only one of those two teams we would have a tied common games record and would lose out to Denver on the next tie breaker which is SOV. Denver's game against Tennessee today is big simply because if they lose to the Titans today it gives us that extra option where they just need to lose any two of their final three games rather than having to specifically lose to both Oakland and New England.
Chris Hogan catches game clinching TD pass and we let him walk. We want to keep this front office and it will be more of the same ad infinitum. They hired Rex and gave him a 5 year guaranteed contract.
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