They are coached by Jeff Fisher, who is excellent. He's my favorite coach of all-time (been watching football for over 20 years). It is remarkable he's gotten the team to 7-7. The Titans offense will have to show up big time in Week 17. It was dreadful today. They won today on returns. West Virginia University's Pacman Jones was the star of the game. If the Jets qualify for the postseason, we'll probably be able to look back at Jones' performance today as being a major help. He also played some offense today. He caught a pass for a first down.
Any scenario in which 2 of 3 of Cincinnati, Denver and Jacksonville reach 10-6 leaves the Jets sitting the playoffs out. If KC finishes 10-6 then Denver gets knocked out but the Jaguars are also knocked out and the Jets make the playoffs. Root for Jacksonville next week against New England. It's almost a no-lose situation for the Jets. Given that Jacksonville losing next week does not prevent both Denver and Cincinnati from finishing 10-6 and edging the Jets out I'd much prefer to see the Pats capable of losing in week 17 and handing the Jets the division.
The Titans were one of my 3 picks as surprise team in the pre-season predictions thread and I thought I had blown the call totally until they put in Young. I agree on Fisher, he's one of the top coaches in the AFC.
WAY better conference record. The only thing holding them back is KC having the same record, which will probably not stay after tonight. Denver could very well be the #5 seed after tomorrow night with a Cinci loss.
Denver will wind up 9-3 in conference if they win out. That's game over in that tiebreaker. If KC ties them then KC wins the divisional tie-breaker with a better division record but loses to Jets on conference record.
Here's what I want- Cincinnati wins tomorrow night (only because I picked them to win) Cincinnati wins in Denver (goodbye Denver) Jacksonville loses in Kansas City (I'm very confident KC will win that game) Jets win out Jets in playoffs
Denver already has 4 conference losses. Same story is right in terms of the Jets but get the # of losses right.
You're right it's 8-4 vs 7-5 best case now. I was thinking in last week's terms when it was 9-3 and 8-4. Timewarp.
No problem, I'm just anal.. anyone on this board will tell you so (I also love this mathematical stuff) Actually, with Denver's win, they're the 6th seed as we speak. If KC wins, then it's a 4 way tie for 1 slot. JAX would get it. KC beats denver, leaving a 3 way tie. KC/JAX/NYJ. KC is eliminated in the conf record test, and then it reverts to the 2 way tiebreaker.
The way I look at is if Jax beats NE we gotta depend on Jax losing Week 17 instead of controlling our own destiny. I don't like that.
I can't see NE losing to JAX and then TEN. They will confuse the hell out of Vince Young and won't let them score 3 defensive TDs
Exactly what I was thinking. Young and the Titans have had a nice run here, but I can't see them having any chance at all against a Belichick defense in a must win game.
Agreed. Also, if we did win the division it would probably also mean that Jax would be the 5th seed and we would wind up facing them at home in Round 1. The only team left in the AFC playoffs that we absoloutely do not match up well against is the Jaguars. I think we even face up against the Chargers better than we do against JAx. NOT winning the division might give us a bettewr chance of getting deeper in the playoffs. Oc course, lets' just gvet there and I will be smiling from ear to ear..no matter what happens..
I will be rooting for NE just because i dont really think we can catch them for the division and we have a good shot of getting in as a wildcard if we win and the Jags and Broncos lose next week.
I would like to see us end up winning the division, but it really isn't likely. I like our chances of winning out, but I cannot see Pats losing two straight games at the end of the season. Maybe one of the two, but not both. We have a better shot at the other WC teams cancelling themselves out, and taking care of our own wins.
