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Houston and Tennessee still play twice. Week 15 and week 17. week 17 Has a shot of being for the division. NBC doesn’t want it both times. houston loses tonight they are tied at 7-5. fox has double headerwerkend with rams st cowboys for 425 that FOX likely has protected from flexing. They have the rams next werk so they wouldn’t want them 2 weeks in a row.

They did beat beat the Packers... they win win out the win the east division. they made key plays you get a turnover inside the opponents 25 and get a TD and you get a 60+ yd big play TD you havegood odds of winning. buffalo does allow those 2 plays they likely lead something like 13-3 14-3 16-3 or 17-3 in the 3rd quarter. That’s a very different game. on their other scoring drive buffalo had them at 2nd and 15+ or 3rd and 7+ and allowed thrm to convert and move the chains. against NE they had the blocked punt TD and a shortened field FG giving New England 10 pts against Cleveland they gave up a 2 min drill TD and missed 2 FGs. they could have won any of those 3 loses

It wasnt a done deal because you needed to see to see what happened this week. Clevrland beat Pittsburgh thry would be in 2nd due to season sweep tiebreaker.

Remember cbs and fox get to protect 1game a week from week 11-16 during traditional flex time. One week thrycant protects do 5 total. No protections in week 17. NFL decidesthe werk 17 game based on playoff implications not market size or fan based. double header networks will protect their feature 425 game like kc-ne and la-dallas. In week 15 cbs might have decided to not protect games since they had only one game.

Deadline is tuesday but nbc likely makes this announcement during the game tonight since it’s not faded on Monday night results. chargers losing today seals this change. the isdue is who they pick...buf at pit or hou v trn houston v tenn is one of the leading candidates for week 17 along with SF at Seattle for nbc because of that buf at pit is the favorite

Who is watching the snow globe game?

If thry hey wanted to hype the browns thry would have flipped the schedule around and allowed the, to start out something like 8-2 or 7-3 before playing their tough games.

Yes...it depends on Sunday’s games pittsburgh needs to win houston Tennessee also could be flexed too...Tennessee is just a game behind. Thry plsy indy on Sunday and Houston plays NE. Thus game is first meeting between the two. CBS could still have protected one...likrly one eould have been the buffalo at Pittsburgh game

If that hat was the case then why give the browns duch a difficult first 7 games from their first 7 games...4 teams made the playoffs in 2018. The other 3..jets were looked at as WC contenders, Tennessee finished 9-7 last year, and SF was also considered a WC team with their QB healthy. the reason is....Buffalo hasn’t been a regular playoff team. It was was a slap in the face in 2018 thry didn’t get any big tv spots after being a WC team. Usually the playoff teams from the prior season gets on non Thursday national TV The NFL knows Buffalo is not a small market because of the Canadian population not counted. Include the Canadian population it’s easily a top 10 market. seeing the bills fans take over Tennessee stadium they should realize the Bills have a national following just like Steelers, Raiders, snd cowboys next year buffalo plays both west coast divisions...likely national game would be KC or SEA. SF games on 425. another driver in national games is playoff rematch games.

They dont need to lose 3 more..they lose to us and to Cincinnati or Miami. But odds are better that they lose to hou and kc. both hou and kc have incentives with battling for byes and seeding if kc and hou win out they will be 12-4, if buffalo beats NE as well, but doesn’t win the division, there coukd be a bunch of teams at 12-4 and NE loses 1 seed.

FOR DIVISION Bills win out and one of the following need to ioccur 1. New England lose to miami tiebreaker division record 2. New England loses 2 other games...better record 13-3 to 12-4 3 NE lose to Cincinnati...tiebreaker conference record if NE splits HOU and KC then buffalo beats thrm, NE still has better common games record if they are tied at 12-3 going into week 17

Clevrland Nd has a tough first half and an easier 2nd half the beat Baltimore in Baltimore earlier this season so thry can win out and get 10-6 and win the division if Baltimore loses to them and to us, SF, and Pittsburgh. At10-6 in WC race Clevrland has the edge in many tiebreakers due to their0-3 against nfc so far with having better conference record and beating us.

I thought the ones st the top were not the official chains but just an approx maker of the 1st from the other side of the field.

This was a skrleton if its former self. many teams left and joined other competing leagues doing the same thing. why this wasn’t financial successful was likrly it’s own undoing. if your player budget is something around $40K split between the two teams. You get 4000 fans to come out for around $10 a game. you can break even.

Tuesday is the deadline to move the game to Sunday. Ravens playing Thursday night is not a factor in deciding to or not. i think nbc might be saying we’d rather go to LA than buffalo. in flexing the game and pushing awa ar rams to afternoon would have been a bit of a scheduling headache cbs has chiefs-patriots and 2 other late games on west coast thry have to carry. on Fox is chargers at jags so thry would have to move to early cbs to fit in late sea st Rams

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Its a little too soon to say anything like that.... 1. look at the offense playmakers outside of QB last yr and this year including injuries 2. running game 3, how the defense has been in terms of start position on drives 4. since the team went to the super bowl last year this is one of the games the opposing team circles to bring their a game

stop using these playoff gueser machines they are biased against Buffalo Can Buffalo get in with 11 wins ?? Highly likely. The number of 11 win teams who did not make the playoffs since the 8 division format was created was only one I can recall. New England when Brady went down in game 1 and they missed at 11-5. There may have been one other team but i dont recall. I think Tampa had 10.5 wins one year and missed. right now the standing are teams with 5 or less loses NE 1 BALT 2 BUF 3 HOU 4 KC 4 PIT 5 OAK 5 IND 5 TEN 5 CLE (6 losese) IND-TEN play next week TEN-HOU have 2 games left OAK-KC play each other PIT-BAL play each other NE plays KC and HOU in the next 2 weeks PIT CLE play next week CLE plays BAL later PIT--BAL week 17 If only 2 WC teams can get to 11 wins then BUF would clinch getting to 11. next week IND/TEN loser, OAK, and PIT losing would mean only 6 teams could get to 11 and only 2 of then WC teams. BE could clinch a WC with these results were they to win. If CLE beats PIT next week ,, CLE jumps ahead of PIT and owns the H2H sweep tiebreaker in the standings. BUF beat TEN and they have to play PIT and BAL. Its possible the PIT game could be a win and BUF clinches a WC Conference record could be a decider in sorting teams at 10-6. As of now CLE looks to have the best conference record because they already have 3 NFC loses others right now have 0,1,2 NFC loes with more games to play. How can Buffalo win the division tie breaker order H2H-NE won first meeting DIV--NE is ahead common games BUF is 2-0 in non common and NE plays theirs the next two weeks at HOU and hosting KC IF NE loses one they will have better common games record. conference record BUF owns this with NE going 4-0 against NFC scenario 1---BUF is within 2 games of NE entering week 16. BUF beats NE and wins week 17 and MIA beats NE. tie record bu BUF has beetter division record. scenario 2--if BUF is within 1 game of NE they will need to win 2 and NE lose 2 to clinch diviision except if NE goes W-W-L at CIN then BUF wuld have edge because common games tied and then BUF has better conference record so being with one game and winning against NE means BUF just needs a win. scenario 3---they are tied entering week 16 then BUF wins they control own fate with a W in week 17.

11-5 is a near certainty in making the playoffs. I think only New England went 11-5 in Brady lost season and didn’t Make playoffs in the 8 division format. looking at how other teams are...I don’t see 2 other teams bring 11-5 and in a WC spot. You would need 7 teams with 11 wins or more. Only 9 teams can do that. 2 are hou snd ten and thry still play each other twice so one of thrm will be knocked out. Ten play indy next week and one gets knocked out. Kc and oak play each other once, that game knocks out oak or could knock out kc if they lose another game.

I agree...they have to decide this on Tuesday. CBS protects chiefs-patriots if the did this then sea-LA to fox and chargers ar Jax to cbs at 1pm the following week the two games are buff-pitt hou-tennis for division lead posdibly cbs protects one....

Buffalo also is ahead by 2 loses in conference record..second tie breaker after head to head

Here area few of the playoff s enarios... over the next 3 weeks there are 2 options nelise to dallas ne lose to hou or kc if they lose to dallas.... then buffalo picks up a game if they win win out thrn are a game behind. If buffalo wins at New England then it would come down to strength of victory. The differences would be buf..dallas, Baltimore, denver, tennessee new england...Philadelphia, Cleveland, kc, Houston who has the more wins would lead the division going into the final week. Buffalo would need to be tied before the rematch. They would need 2 Lise’s. if they beat dallas....then lose to hou/KC they would have the common games tiebreaker. if they could lose to dallas and Lise one of KC/Hou then they are tied going into the game. if buffalo is still 2 games back going into the rematch they need to win and have Miami beat them the following week and buffalo win. if buffalo was to say beat Cleveland and lose to Denver and Dallas beat NE then buffalo could have the tiebreaker edge on New England in a h2h win.

In 2017 the bears were 2-6 in one score games. They go 6-2 they would have been in the hunt for a WC in 2018 they were 6-4 in one score games this year they have bern 2-4 in one score games. The packers were 2-6 last year and 5-1 this year. chargers 7 losses have been by one score. Last year they went 11-5. notice a trend here...

They host seattle, Rams, Chiefs, chargers, I think they host afc south at oakland/vegas, denver, Arizona, San Francisco, I think they are at afc north ( these coukd be switched)