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Again, just like every year we hurt ourselves in the playoff chances by beating and out of division opponent.  The difference between us and the Patriots is that they win the games against their division, not these meaningless games like today. It's embarrassing.

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2 minutes ago, Boyst62 said:

Again, just like every year we hurt ourselves in the playoff chances by beating and out of division opponent.  The difference between us and the Patriots is that they win the games against their division, not these meaningless games like today. It's embarrassing.

Did you bet 5k$ too?

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Yes, they would have been far better off to be 1-2 with a win over either Balt or LA.  But they stil have the Texans, Tenn, and all their division games.  A win over GB doesn't seem so out of the realm of possibility right now.  That would put them a 2-2.  90% of this board thought 2-2 was impossible before the season.

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1 minute ago, Dadonkadonk said:

Yes, they would have been far better off to be 1-2 with a win over either Balt or LA.  But they stil have the Texans, Tenn, and all their division games.  A win over GB doesn't seem so out of the realm of possibility right now.  That would put them a 2-2.  90% of this board thought 2-2 was impossible before the season.

Beating GB won't help us for the playoffs.

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1 minute ago, Boyst62 said:

Again, just like every year we hurt ourselves in the playoff chances by beating and out of division opponent.  The difference between us and the Patriots is that we win the games against our division, not these meeting this games like today. It's embarrassing.

 

It depends.  Beating a bad out-of-conference team is worse, because it proportionally weakens you in the strength-of-schedule tie-breaker in playoff determinations (since you've made your opponents' overall record worse.)  Beating a good out-of-conference team has an impact on your strength of schedule, of course, but it's a proportionally lesser impact.

 

So really, the degree to which the Bills damaged their playoff hopes today depends ultimately on how good the Vikings' record is.  If they end 9 and 7, then the Bills' win is only a 10% reduction in the Vikings' contribution to strength-of-schedule (because if the Bills lost, the Vikes would be 10-6, so that one game is 10% of their total.)  But if the Vikings end up 4-12, then it's a 20% reduction, which is a significant impact to the Bills' playoff tie-breaking chances.

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Just now, dwight in philly said:

Seriously? 

The criteria to get a playoff bid time breaker is division opponents.  We need to win in our conference and division.  It's why we almost missed them last year, losing to Miami would have hurt.

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10 minutes ago, Boyst62 said:

Again, just like every year we hurt ourselves in the playoff chances by beating and out of division opponent.  The difference between us and the Patriots is that they win the games against their division, not these meaningless games like today. It's embarrassing.

It's thinking like this that shows why the Confederacy got its ass kicked, and why Southerners revel in that ass kicking.

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1 minute ago, Casey D said:

It's thinking like this that shows why the Confederacy got it's ass kicked, and why Southerners revel in that ass kicking.

Sounds like your emotions are hurt.

 

as far as the war of Northern aggression, I have no common with those Yankee Invaders did to this great land here in the south

 

It was a crime what they did

 

But you can only say that cuz you can't dispute my argument

3 minutes ago, DC Tom said:

 

It depends.  Beating a bad out-of-conference team is worse, because it proportionally weakens you in the strength-of-schedule tie-breaker in playoff determinations (since you've made your opponents' overall record worse.)  Beating a good out-of-conference team has an impact on your strength of schedule, of course, but it's a proportionally lesser impact.

 

So really, the degree to which the Bills damaged their playoff hopes today depends ultimately on how good the Vikings' record is.  If they end 9 and 7, then the Bills' win is only a 10% reduction in the Vikings' contribution to strength-of-schedule (because if the Bills lost, the Vikes would be 10-6, so that one game is 10% of their total.)  But if the Vikings end up 4-12, then it's a 20% reduction, which is a significant impact to the Bills' playoff tie-breaking chances.

Nerd

95% of your statistics are not accurate

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