Bills fan since 87 Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 Cant remember the poster but in years past someone always put together a dynamite "who to root for" thread prior to the weeks games. Has that poster started doing these yet and I missed them or is this something they no longer do. Tied to this does anyone know when the ESPN playoff machine fires up? (Far and away the best simulator) I think it was week 12 in years past? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motorin' Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 Da Bills. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thenorthremembers Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 ESPN isnt up yet, but these two are. NFL Playoff Predictor NY Times Playoff Simulator 1 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg S Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 This week Broncos over Dolphins would be nice. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thenorthremembers Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 Just now, Greg S said: This week Broncos over Dolphins would be nice. I think Miami is going to hang tough until week 14. I still see them going 9-7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 (edited) 16 minutes ago, Bills fan since 87 said: Cant remember the poster but in years past someone always put together a dynamite "who to root for" thread prior to the weeks games. Has that poster started doing these yet and I missed them or is this something they no longer do. Tied to this does anyone know when the ESPN playoff machine fires up? (Far and away the best simulator) I think it was week 12 in years past? It should be up this week Week 11 ... Edited November 17, 2020 by SlimShady'sSpaceForce 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwight in philly Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 3 minutes ago, Greg S said: This week Broncos over Dolphins would be nice. Can quasi take the place of a Bills game this week.. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bills fan since 87 Posted November 17, 2020 Author Share Posted November 17, 2020 16 minutes ago, Motorin' said: Da Bills. Is Da Bill's still around? Maybe he waits to do it later in the season but I recall it being earlier that they did them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg S Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 Just now, dwight in philly said: Can quasi take the place of a Bills game this week.. I have the Sunday ticket( live in NJ) so I will definitely be watching. I would imagine this game will be broadcast in WNY since Bills fans will have an obvious interest in this one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 17 minutes ago, thenorthremembers said: ESPN isnt up yet, but these two are. NFL Playoff Predictor NY Times Playoff Simulator The Times can get you % to make it. I didn't see the final seeding the NFL PP is also a PITA -- I have Raiders at Colts Ravens at Bills Browns at Steelers the next week Bills at Steelers Raiders at Chiefs http://www.espn.com/nfl/playoffs/machine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgewaycynic2013 Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 Playoff Status dot com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 The afc-playoff-picture-buffalo-bills-rooting-interests-week-11 story is not up yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleTheWagons99 Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 45 minutes ago, Greg S said: This week Broncos over Dolphins would be nice. I don’t know why but I have a feeling Miami loses to Denver. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bills fan since 87 Posted November 17, 2020 Author Share Posted November 17, 2020 22 minutes ago, CircleTheWagons99 said: I don’t know why but I have a feeling Miami loses to Denver. Hope you are right but I have had that feeling about Miami for a few weeks now, and well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motorin' Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 1 hour ago, Bills fan since 87 said: Is Da Bill's still around? Maybe he waits to do it later in the season but I recall it being earlier that they did them. I haven't been around this particular Bills board long enough to remember that particular poster! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloMatt Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 1 hour ago, Bills fan since 87 said: Cant remember the poster but in years past someone always put together a dynamite "who to root for" thread prior to the weeks games. Has that poster started doing these yet and I missed them or is this something they no longer do. Tied to this does anyone know when the ESPN playoff machine fires up? (Far and away the best simulator) I think it was week 12 in years past? BuffaloRumblings.com does a weekly article - "Rooting Interests" Week 11, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiseman3 Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 Someone on the Buffalo Bills reddit page r/buffalobills does a great rooting interests post every week. It goes through every single game and the optimal outcome for each one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msw2112 Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 For certain games, it's obvious. Miami-Denver is a good example. You clearly want Denver to win. Or with rare exception, anytime an AFC team is playing an NFC team, you want the NFC team to win. It gets trickier with AFC-AFC matchups. For example, on Sunday night, with the Pats playing the Ravens, who were Bills fans supposed to root for (for PLAYOFF purposes only - I realize that Bills fans generally want to root against the Pats)? For AFC East division reasons, you would root for the Ravens, as a win by them helps knock the Pats out of the division race. BUT, the Pats are unlikely to catch us in the race and the Ravens and Bills might be competing for playoff seeding. If Miami were to somehow overtake the Bills and win the division, and the Steelers win their division over the Ravens, the Bills are then competing with the Ravens for wildcard seeding in the AFC and we would thus want them to lose to the Pats. I realize it's just a little early for this stuff, but it's how my mind (and I'm sure many others' on this board) works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bills fan since 87 Posted November 17, 2020 Author Share Posted November 17, 2020 16 minutes ago, msw2112 said: For certain games, it's obvious. Miami-Denver is a good example. You clearly want Denver to win. Or with rare exception, anytime an AFC team is playing an NFC team, you want the NFC team to win. It gets trickier with AFC-AFC matchups. For example, on Sunday night, with the Pats playing the Ravens, who were Bills fans supposed to root for (for PLAYOFF purposes only - I realize that Bills fans generally want to root against the Pats)? For AFC East division reasons, you would root for the Ravens, as a win by them helps knock the Pats out of the division race. BUT, the Pats are unlikely to catch us in the race and the Ravens and Bills might be competing for playoff seeding. If Miami were to somehow overtake the Bills and win the division, and the Steelers win their division over the Ravens, the Bills are then competing with the Ravens for wildcard seeding in the AFC and we would thus want them to lose to the Pats. I realize it's just a little early for this stuff, but it's how my mind (and I'm sure many others' on this board) works. No doubt, playing around with the playoff machine is a true yearly joy for me, gives me something to do at the office other than work too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeGOATski Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 2 hours ago, thenorthremembers said: NFL Playoff Predictor when I checked this one, it already gives Miami the win and has them at 7-3, lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gugny Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 2 hours ago, Bills fan since 87 said: Cant remember the poster but in years past someone always put together a dynamite "who to root for" thread prior to the weeks games. Has that poster started doing these yet and I missed them or is this something they no longer do. Tied to this does anyone know when the ESPN playoff machine fires up? (Far and away the best simulator) I think it was week 12 in years past? I don't like people telling me what to do. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Ferguson Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 Root for the Raiders and Jaguars. Bills need the 1st seed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg S Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 Root for the Jets to beat the Chargers. Anything to help keep them away from getting TL. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMF2006 Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 (edited) 17 minutes ago, Greg S said: Root for the Jets to beat the Chargers. Anything to help keep them away from getting TL. I think there are 3 top QB`s but don`t sweat it....the Jets will ruin the next one too They might even do something stupid like draft a RB,WR or DE thinking Darnold is the guy Edited November 18, 2020 by JMF2006 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg S Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 Just now, JMF2006 said: I think there are 3 top QB`s but don`t sweat it....the Jets will ruin the next one too They might even do something stupid like draft a RB,WR or DE thinking Darnold is the guy Lets hope they do something really stupid like keep Gase as HC. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orlando Tim Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 Basically we want to root for Raiders and Colts to win their divisions because we have tie breaker on Raiders and Colts because we could have the tiebreaker over them depending on rest of season. Right now a ton of moving pieces but we know a few teams we have tiebreaker on and a few we dont- Chiefs and Titans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 Jax - Steelers Houston - Pats Denver - Miami GB - Colts KC - Raiders ?? I doubt the Raiders sweep KC. Philly over Browns one is a plus the other a minus. benefits the winner only for Tenny - Balt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuco Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 The ESPN one is up and running now. http://www.espn.com/nfl/playoffs/machine 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Vader Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 29 minutes ago, Tuco said: The ESPN one is up and running now. http://www.espn.com/nfl/playoffs/machine And they are using the old playoff format! They list the top two teams as having bye weeks! Way to stay up-to-date ESPN! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1ManRaid Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 I poked around the ESPN one and with conservative picks still have us at 12-4 with the 3rd seed. Winning against everyone but the Steelers would make the game against New England literally inconsequential where we keep our seed even if we lose that one. Beating NE but losing to Miami drops us from 3rd to 5th, nothing in between. I didn't realize the tail end of the season was so favorable. Outside of the undefeated Steelers, every game is against a losing record team aside from Miami who we already have a win against. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnnycage46 Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 I will be rooting for teams we've already beaten to win, assuming it's not the Dolphins or Patriots. It would help our strength of victory. Seahawks beating Cards tomorrow night would be nice (for MANY reasons) and Raiders beating Chiefs would serve a couple of purposes (increasing our strength of victory with our win over Raiders and dropping the Chiefs down a notch record-wise). This is the crazy time of year where things started getting log jammed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bills fan since 87 Posted November 18, 2020 Author Share Posted November 18, 2020 1 hour ago, Mark Vader said: And they are using the old playoff format! They list the top two teams as having bye weeks! Way to stay up-to-date ESPN! Pretty silly gaffe by them really Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hebert19 Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 On 11/17/2020 at 2:30 PM, SlimShady'sSpaceForce said: The Times can get you % to make it. I didn't see the final seeding the NFL PP is also a PITA -- I have Raiders at Colts Ravens at Bills Browns at Steelers the next week Bills at Steelers Raiders at Chiefs http://www.espn.com/nfl/playoffs/machine Wow. I have the dolphins not even making playoffs while beating us in 17. Browns raiders titans and colts all with better records. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 ESPN (inconsistent with NFL PP) Seems I put KC with 1 less loss on ESPN. 1 KC 15-1 Bye 2 Pitt 15-1 -- 7 Cle 10-6 3 Buff 13-3 -- 6 Balt 11-4 4 Colts 9-7 -- 5 Vegas 12-4 Miami Out both tries 21 minutes ago, Hebert19 said: Wow. I have the dolphins not even making playoffs while beating us in 17. Browns raiders titans and colts all with better records. Not if they go 2-4 or as you hadd 3-3. The Bills will be 1 to 2 games better IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleTheWagons99 Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 On 11/17/2020 at 3:19 PM, Bills fan since 87 said: Hope you are right but I have had that feeling about Miami for a few weeks now, and well... Told you I had a feeling. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bills fan since 87 Posted November 23, 2020 Author Share Posted November 23, 2020 Just now, CircleTheWagons99 said: Told you I had a feeling. Can ya have a feeling the Bills win the Superbowl please! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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