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The Jags would need to lose two, so it'd be Bucs and Panthers to secure the Bills' place before Week 18.

Bearing in mind, with all of the Play Off combinations - the Bills still have to beat the Pats. The Pats would love nothing more than screwing the Bills over, even if it slightly affects their draft position.

Broncos: vs Pats, vs Chargers, at Raiders Bengals: at Chiefs, vs Browns Steelers: at Seahawks, at Ravens Colts: Losing at Falcons, vs Raiders, vs Texans Texans: Losing vs Browns, vs Titans, at Colts Jaguars: at Bucs, vs Panthers, at Titans Can see the Bengals, Steelers and obviously (hopefully no tie) one of Colts/Texans losing at least one more, as long as the Ravens have something to play for in Week 18. Not sure where the fourth defeat will come from. Would be great if the Pats can shock the Broncos later.

True, and their relatively easy end of the season schedule (on paper) doesn't help. If the Colts and Texans lose, and Jags win tonight, then they'll basically have two games on them, as they hold the tiebreakers as it stands.

They'd be a game behind the Bills, albeit with the Panthers and Titans to come.

I'd say so. Though as long as one of the Dolphins or Chiefs win this week, there will still be something riding on next week.

The Broncos are the issue for me. Can't see them losing to the Pats and the Chargers. Especially as there will be more tape on the latter by the time they play them.

If the Browns win they'll have a 10-5 record, with conference record of 7-3. The Bills will be 9-6/5-5. If the Bills win out and the Browns lose both, could still overtake. But it may be a case of accepting the Browns taking up a place, and supporting them over the Texans and Bengals.

Not their specials team unit.

I was worried for a moment that penalty was going to be against Cooper.

I've said all along that I feel Josh is, physically, the best NFL QB bar none right now, possibly even ever, but sometimes his mentality and reads can let him down. He can get the haunted look which I think causes panic in every Bills fan, or he doesn't quite see the field right - see the first drive yesterday where he was throwing to... who? Mind you, we blame Josh, maybe someone ran the wrong route? But it's part of being a QB to notice that. And to choose whether to throw on the back foot which could result in an underthrow. I would argue Josh had a game of two 'halves' yesterday - pre and post interception. Pre-interception he had issues. Post interception he was good to great.

"Josh sucked until the final drive..." His passing record post interception: - Successful 4-yard pass to Diggs - Successful 6-yard pass to Diggs - Successful 16-yard pass to Shakir - Successful 36-yard pass to Davis - Successful 6-yard pass to Cook (negated by penalty on Brown) - Successful 28-yard pass to Davis (negated by penalty on Morse) - Successful 17-yard pass to Knox - Successful 8-yard pass to Diggs - Unsuccessful deep pass to Diggs - Successful 11-yard pass to Diggs - Successful 15-yard pass to Shakir Admittedly there were issues early on, but would disagree with him sucking until the final drive. Sucking up to and including the interception, yeah, can maybe accept that. Even the sack, I preferred him to protect the ball than air it. Martin then stepped in to help him out.

Josh writes his narrative. Yesterday being a case in point. He is a rollercoaster this season in particular, the superb mixed with some dross. He won't win MVP because the TO start is against him; one which he has created. McCaffrey or Hill should win it - as much as I like Purdy (more than most) a decent starting QB would be doing the same thing in that 49ers team. Take McCaffrey or Hill out of their respective teams and they look very different. And yes, to counter my first paragraph, the same goes for the Bills for Josh. He is the reason they are 9-6 this year, and not something like 4-11. But could also be argued he's the reason they're not 12-3 too.

The Chargers having a new coach was not the key change behind Harty and Cook fumbling, nor Josh underthrowing for an interception (or being off with his receivers). These have happened against teams who have not changed their HC coming into Bills week. It's a carelessness with the ball which has haunted them for most of the season and, as much as we hoped they would have learned from it, they simply haven't.

I wish I was that confident. To be blunt, the Bills were sloppy from the Jags through to the Broncos. That’s six weeks on the spin. Being at Highmark should help next week but the weaknesses and issues have not magically disappeared with Dorsey.

You do realise they'll probably fumble the ball whilst trying to run the clock? Or have a bad snap?

Phew, that was needed!

That's all from the dreadful play calling for the first Steelers series of the half. Too many throws, not enough runs.

Should but will? Jets... Jags... Pats... Broncos...

Let's beat the Chargers first.

What a catch from Pickens! The Steelers are getting very lucky here. Bizarre play calling.

And people say Josh flops. Hendrickson seemed to go down very easily there.

Why have the Steelers stopped running the ball?

Jason Bell on Sky in the UK saying it wasn't DPI on Porter.

It should; Bengals got lucky earlier and unlucky there.