We're going 5-0 to finish the season. We won't blow everyone out so don't trip, but we're going to stack these Ws.
Bills are our greatest roadblock to the #1 seed. Their remaining schedule:
Jets
@Dolphins
@Bears
@Bengals
Patriots
Three divisional games and a road game against a good Bengals team that will likely be fighting for their division. They've got a loss left in them.
The Bengals remaining schedule is really tough. There's a good chance they don't even win their division, given the fact that they're in second place right now and the Ravens remaining schedule is easy af.
Originally Posted by DrunkBassGuitar:
God damnit I'm going to have to pull for the Bengals when they play the Bills
Fuck you spags
Originally Posted by -King-:
Yeah I believe it too. We'll be Dolphins and Bengals (yuck) fans the next few weeks.
100%.
Bengals, Dolphins and Jets all play the Bills with realistic shots at winning.
We just need one or two of them to come away with a W while we take care of business.
The Dolphins defense is so porous (seriously, it's worse than ours) that I expect them to drop another game or two and the Bengals schedule is just so tough, I'd expect the same for them. In fact, I think the Bengals would be more likely to miss the playoffs entirely than they are to take the #1 seed. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
How we gonna beat a quality offense who just sells out to isolate and eliminate Chris Jones?
It's a fundamental flaw and you can get around it with blitzes against average or below passing teams.
But how do you manage against the quality of offenses we'll have to get through in the post-season?
I'm so fucking exhausted by this defensive line.
The 49ers have a quality offense and we handled them. Quality offenses with elite QBs are different beast entirely, but despite how poorly we played CIN and BUF, we only allowed 27 and 24 respectively. It's not as bad as you feel it is at the moment.
Mahomes threw a combined 1 TD and 2 INTs in both games this year. Clearly tons of room for improvement when we inevitably meet at least one of them in the rematch.
Just get the 1 seed and let these teams sort themselves out in the Wild Card. There's a good chance we won't even see the Bengals, if I'm being honest. The Bills seem like the one we won't be able to avoid. [Reply]