None of these are gimmes and none are un-winnable. What I like is that our remaining 2 division game are at home. I wonder which Denver team will show up???
If the pats and bills win out and the fish and Jets win the next 5. The AFCE would look like: Cheats: 12-4 (4-2 in division) Jets: 12-3 (4-1) Miami: 10-5 (3-2) (assuming win over buff) Bills: 9-7 (2-4) (if they beat the fish they would be 10-6 with the fish at 9-5) If the Jets beat the fish they would be 13-3 with a 5-1 divisional record. The Jets would be the division winner. If the Jets lost, they would be 12-4 with a 4-2 divisional record and split head-to-head games with the cheats while the cheats would be 4-2 in the division. Next tiebreak is common opponents. Jets would be 9-3 with the cheats at 10-4. Cheats win the division. Jets would almost certainly be the first wild card at 12-4 going to the AFCW winner's stadium (potentially at 7-9). The lesson here is that the Jets currently have their destiny in their own hands with 6 weeks left. A loss to the Titans might change all that. The last day of the season looks like it will have importance to the AFCE results. These scenarios have way too many variables at this point. But they are kinda fun to play with. In two more weeks the picture will start to sharpen. Needless to say, last night's win was huge and puts us in contention for the division and makes a wild card highly likely should we not win the division.
I look at it this way..... They should at the very least split with the Titans and Broncos. The last month of the season however is interesting becuase you have 2 division games at homes against 2 dangerous opponents who will also be fighting for their playoff lives. Then you have 2 trips to the West Coast against much inferior opponents. I think they win 3 of the 4 but which 3 I'm not sure. I think'll SF is a definate look ahead spot and considering how poorly we've played out West this year doesn't give me thrills. I still think they beat the Niners. I think honestly looking at it they either lose to Buffalo or Seattle just because of the way the schedule is made up. The Seachickens game is a definate let down game if you beat the Bills and you also have Miami potentially for the division in week 17. Everygame down the stretch is winable but I'd be extremely happy with 4-2 in the last 6 games which won't give us home field but it would give us the division because I still think we win more games in the last month and a half then Miami, Buffalo and New England. I would be exteremely surprised and happy to see them go 4-0 in December.
The slightly tougher games look like the two coming up... Titans and Broncos. But that may not be the end all. Assuming we get by those in decent shape (2-0 or 1-1), the problem I have with the last four is the West Coast travel thing interspersed each Sunday with our two division rivals, the Bills and the Dolphins, who, at this point, are still no pushovers by any means. On the plane, jet lag, off the plane and face the Bills. On the plane, jet lag, off the plane and face the Dolphins. So I'm not buying into the rest of the schedule looking peachy keen. This thing is laced with land mines and booby traps, and the CS should be reminding the players it ain't gonna be no easy road. Bottom line: There's a very slim chance we go 6-0 from here on out. This is going to be a fight to the finish all the way. Edit: For those of you have travelled to the West Coast frequently, you know this trick. The way to eliminate jet lag is to simply not get yourself into that time zone. In other words, the Jets should go to the West Coast and try to stay within a schedule that best duplicates their normal routine back on the East Coast. Do not try to assimulate West Cost tiime. I don't care if that means breakfast at 12 noon and bedtime at 7 pm. You stay within your own time zone and you come back home with no lag.
