What's YOUR Honest Playoff Bracket?

[corta765]

3 minutes ago, Warriorspikes51 said:

 

If we hadn't blown the Miami game, us getting the 1 would be reasonable.  Pats finishing with 4 L's would be hilarious.     They may very well lose to us and the Ravens
 

but unless they lose to NYJ or MIA they take the division even if we win out 

 

I'd rather face any other team in the AFC on the road in the Wild Card.  Ravens won't lose to us again unless Lamar isn't healthy.  Even then Henry can wreck us 

Same and I quasi would prefer HOU and BUF tie so tie breaker wise were the 6th seed. I think the Bills worst wo matchups are BAL/HOU in the playoffs. If they avoid them I can see a run. 

I use nfl playoff predictor and this was how I got there on the AFC:

 

[Warriorspikes51]

1 minute ago, corta765 said:

Same and I quasi would prefer HOU and BUF tie so tie breaker wise were the 6th seed. I think the Bills worst wo matchups are BAL/HOU in the playoffs. If they avoid them I can see a run. 

I use nfl playoff predictor and this was how I got there on the AFC:

 

 

the North & South divisions are going to be battling amongst themselves down the stretch.  Will be interesting to see outcome
 

Maybe the Pats having a bye will ruin their momentum.  Time for them to take a few steps back.  

haha 

[PonyBoy]

Bills verse:

 

Bengals

Texans

Chiefs 

If it's possible.

Exorcise those demons! 

Edited 2 hours ago by PonyBoy
Typo

[NewEra]

47 minutes ago, Gregg said:

 

Burrow can't play defense. I just don't see them running the table. I think they lose this week and could very well lose to the Ravens. I know the Bengals beat them last week, but those AFCN games are usually wars. I would not be surprised at all if the Ravens win the rematch. Miami is trying to desperately get back in the playoff race as well. As the Bills found out the Dolphins game isn't an easy one either. 

It’ll be tough for sure, but the odds of that happening aren’t nearly as difficult as people are saying

[chris heff]

1 hour ago, strive_for_five_guy said:

You’ll take it, even though it would mean we lost to the Bengals this week at home?  How did we lose to them at home if we’re superior to them?

Question was about the bracket, not this weeks game. But since you asked, if somehow the Bills lose this weekend (and I don’t think they will), and this ends up being the playoff bracket, it gives the Bills the opportunity for home games. In AFC North, I don’t think Steelers make it, Browns certainly won’t, that leaves the Ravens. I’d rather the Bills play Bengals than Ravens.

Edited 1 hour ago by chris heff

[strive_for_five_guy]

21 minutes ago, chris heff said:

Question was about the bracket, not this weeks game. But since you asked, if somehow the Bills lose this weekend (and I don’t think they will), and this ends up being the playoff bracket, it gives the Bills the opportunity for home games. In AFC North, I don’t think Steelers make it, Browns certainly won’t, that leaves the Ravens. I’d rather the Bills play Bengals than Ravens.

The point is if the Bills do win this weekend like you think they will, this whole scenario is unlikely.  Bengals will then have 9 losses which lessens their chance of winning their division.

[Ray Stonada]

A big difference between the Bengals that boat raced us in 2022 in both the Hamlin game and the playoffs: they don't have Anarumo anymore.

[chris heff]

11 minutes ago, strive_for_five_guy said:

The point is if the Bills do win this weekend like you think they will, this whole scenario is unlikely.  Bengals will then have 9 losses which lessens their chance of winning their division.

I get that

[harmonkillebrew]

3 hours ago, chris heff said:

That was then, this is now. Bills weakness is run defense, Bengals have no running game. Bills strength is the running game, Bengals have one of worst run defenses in the league. I’ll take it.

See above 

Bills D has a way of making bad running teams look good. I'm a little worried we play 2 high, nickel base against Burrow this weekend and get both gashed in the run and passive/gashed in the pass.  Bernard and Oliver out doesn't help us against good pass teams and if we are game-planning to stop the run, those nickel packages expose us

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

3 hours ago, Lost said:

 

Playing at Cinci would be great?   We have yet to beat that team in the playoffs or even in the regular season since they had Andy Dalton at QB..

To be fair the sample size is about as small as possible to make that claim lol I think we’ve played against burrow once at home and once on the road.  Their team is objectively quite a bit worse than those two bengals teams also 

 

I’d rather avoid both ravens/bengals if possible but of those two I’d definitely take bengals 

[thurst44]

11 hours ago, Richard Noggin said:

Using dumb ESPN's playoff simulator, I ran through the last five weeks of the season without thinking too much, just picking each game as objectively as I could. Here was the result (only took me a couple minutes):

 

 

I hate it a lot, tbh. So many bad matchups for the Bills. 

 

In my simulation, for what it's worth, the Bills lose the next two and then win the last three. I really hope that isn't what actually transpires, but going 3-2 the rest of the way IS reasonable. Could also see arguments for going 4-1, which would have interesting ramifications. for the rest of the AFC. 

 

What bracket do YOU come up with after picking the last five weeks of the season? (I tried not to think about any future implications when picking. And I tried to apply an ugly level of objectivity.)

My HONEST playoff bracket? This season? I haven't got a clue. Not a cop out, but my actual answer. This is the weirdest season I can remember and I've been watching since being a kid in the 1980s.

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

26 minutes ago, harmonkillebrew said:

Bills D has a way of making bad running teams look good. I'm a little worried we play 2 high, nickel base against Burrow this weekend and get both gashed in the run and passive/gashed in the pass.  Bernard and Oliver out doesn't help us against good pass teams and if we are game-planning to stop the run, those nickel packages expose us

Should be interesting to see…I really think the ravens defense bad pass rush and all had a pretty good game against them it was just such a fluky one with the 5 turnovers… cincy just had so many drives because of that.  
 

bengals were 8/19 on third down and 2/11 finishing drives where they weren’t just running out the clock with TDs.  Both tds came on third and long passing tds but we’d probably give those up too so that’s not really a point in our favor 😂

 

Baltimore has pretty quietly been one of the worst defenses in the league themselves 

 

 

[MDH]

 

This is what my (likely bad) predictions came up with. I’d take this in a heartbeat. The AFC WCs could all conceivably win and the Bills could potentially host both the division round and AFFCG

[US Egg]

3 hours ago, LabattBlue said:

Just wondering what a “dishonest” playoff bracket looks like? 😉

Yeah, the ole “I got to be honest” qualifier to validate a point. So sometimes they’re not?