Actually the Ravens already have 3 conference losses. Because of this, they are probably not going to win a tiebreaker against the Steelers.
If the Steelers lose to the Ravens they need to win the other games against Dallas, Tennessee and Cleveland. That will be tough, not impossible, but certainly hard. I had silently assumed that the Steelers will lose another if they lose to the Ravens. But yeah, the Ravens need one more win than the Steelers, assuming they beat the Steelers at home to get the division. If they don't they may yet snag a wild card at 10-6.
Exactly, like I said in another thread, any of the six seeds could end up supporting the AFC in the SB - Indi, NE, NYJ, Pitt, Balt, Denver. Never have I seen home field advantage be less important. There is no clear cut winner in these six seeds and on any given sunday you could see the NYJ thoroughly beat Tenn in their home or on the flip side Den beat NYJ thoroughly in NJ. Maybe at least with NE we know them and what they like to do just based on playing them 2 times a year every year. I would rather play NE than Indi and Pitt.
Zoing! Good point! Forgive me that I don't have AFC divisions as clear in my head, not used to having to care Whew, that was the scenario I had the least faith in, the Colts losing another game. But if the Titans win, and even lose one other, it won't matter. Thanks for setting me straight; your analysis of Steelers/Ravens scenarios make perfect sense. No matter what though, it's pretty clear we have to win out. We win out and we still have a reasonable shot at the #2. If we lose one more, I think we stick a fork into that hope.
LOL.... I love people that say " let say this team does this"... The Steelers won yesterday so we would had still been a 2 games u should say behind the Steelers.
Who cares about the number 2 seed, the last 3 Super Bowl winners weren't even number 3.Colts, Steelers and Giants; when it comes to crunch time if your hungry enough you will make it happen.
way too hypothetical here. i could say lets assume the jets go 4-0 while the pats go 2-2 losing to buffalo and arizona and your whole argument is shot. there is a lot of season left and it will play itself out. no matter what happens im gonna have fun watching every game, because no matter what this is a hell of a lot better than what the jets season had become last year at this point.
Who cares about all this #1 seed/home field stuff? I just want to see the jets make it to the playoffs. Then we can take it from there.
if you're going to worry, go all the way with it and contrive a scenario with the Jets missing the playoffs entirely. don't puss out with this bullshit.
I don't see how Arizona and Buffalo are going to be easy games for NE. Even Oakland can be tricky. Just as us...ask Denver. Arizona is going to throw the ball all over that Patriots secondary.
That is not worst case scenario. Worst case scenario would be to not win the division, miss the playoffs, and start that dreaded offseason on a bad note. Luckily.. We are in good shape. Sky isn't falling yet, save the whales.
I don't care who we play or what seed we are in the playoffs as long as we take care of business. if we're the #2 seed great the players will have more time to rest and the cs get a game plan. if we play the patriots first, good. lets punch them in the face and move down the line. bring it.
If the Jets are going to get to and win a Super Bowl they probably have to beat the Pats, Colts/Denver, Steelers, Giants/Cowboys. Out of those teams the Pats are the least team to fear because this is still a QB driven league. Fear the Pats? If you do you don't get what the playoffs and NFL is all about. If we can't beat the Pats we ain't going anywhere in the playoffs.
Of the teams the jets would face in the first round if they don't get a bye, I'm least worried about the patriots.
We have done poorly against teams with a pass defense. Oakland, believe it or not, has a good pass defense. This same factor affected Denver. Belicheat has show the ability to identify an opponents strengths and weaknesses and attack the weaknesses, not the strengths.
Since last week 1/2 the board was talkin super bowl we should all learn the lesson that football is a week to week sport. We shouldnt have been worried about it last week and its still to early to call with 4 games left
I don't see any "easy" first round match-up with all the teams in the hunt. The teams fighting for spots are teams that have been dominant in the recent past. The Jets will have their work cut out for them no matter where they fall in the playoff picture.
