What's YOUR Honest Playoff Bracket?

[SCBills]

If the Bills beat CIN, I think they go 4-1 down the stretch.  Resting players against the Jets.  They’ll beat NE and Philly.   
 

Since we likely aren’t getting a bye, or home game, I don’t care about seeding.  
 

Getting to a point where we can rest guys for a game, maybe even two, is the most important goal they should have. 
 

Edited 12 hours ago by SCBills

[machine gun kelly]

4 hours ago, SCBills said:

If the Bills beat CIN, I think they go 4-1 down the stretch.  Resting players against the Jets.  They’ll beat NE and Philly.   
 

Since we likely aren’t getting a bye, or home game, I don’t care about seeding.  
 

Getting to a point where we can rest guys for a game, maybe even two, is the most important goal they should have. 
 

As often is the case, I agree with you.  I’m not intimidated by the Eagles especially as bad as their offense has played this year, and yes, I can see us resting the banged up players for the Jet’s.  It’s funny as always they are so much of a dumpster fire, we still might beat them up with backups, and the usual Allen playing a series to keep his streak going strong.  Don’t forget it’s not their fault, but the Pats schedule was weak, and their best game was against us.  The Bucs almost beat them.

 

Cincy makes me nervous as yes, their defense is atrocious, but when Burrow, Chase, and Higgins are all on the field, they are dangerous.  No one wants to hear this, but we will probably play a ball control game and ram it down their throat.  Their run defense is 31st in the league, and pass defense is even worse at 32 out of 32.

 

I say we go left, then right, then left again with Cook, and when they start loading the box we toss it to Cook and Ty all day long.  They play that up, and Davis or Palmer or Cooks if healthy goes 30 yards down the field for a TD.  Get up 2-3 scores and then back to running it down their throat.   The best defense for their passing game is TOP at 38 minutes.  

[Alphadawg7]

10 hours ago, Richard Noggin said:

 

I don't see a McD team with a healthy Josh Allen and James Cook going 2-3 to close out the season, but as you've noted, their inconsistency does not slam the door on that possibility. And the matchups against Cinci, New England, and Philly are all potentially dicey. 

 

We've been worse off at this point in previous years ('21 and '23) and still closed out the regular seasons strong (a McD team trait), one time fielding (in '21) the best consecutive passing offense performances in playoff history, I think? That 2021 team was offensive shite at this point in the season, and then lost again but at least woke up in the 2nd half of that 6th and final loss to Tampa. So there is precedent for the Bills and Allen to lock in from here out. 

 

In 2025, however, unrelenting, impactful injuries, and critical coaching and execution errors could be mitigating factors that finally disrupt the Bills' history of late season excellence. 

 

For the record, I do still expect to be in the playoffs.  If was going to wager on if we do or don't, I would be betting we would.  That being said, my confidence in this team is at maybe the lowest it has been since Allen reached elite level play.

Unlike many others, the Steelers game really concerned me, that did not look like a playoff team offensively to me.  Everyone is riding the spin and hype train because our ground game had such a good game, but we ran 2 plays essentially the whole time.  TJ Watt even said he never seen anything like that, where a team kept running the same plays and the defense couldn't adjust and stop it.  If you stop there, sure, that seems great, like Brady found a weakness and exploited it.  On one level, that is essentially true.  The bigger issue I have is that nothing else was working, the offense still struggled a lot in the passing game and any other type of offense outside those couple of run plays.  So I didn't coming away feeling good about the offense as I don't think it actually looked good and we more got lucky the Steelers couldn't answer the call to those same couple of plays.  

 

Our defense looked great, but the Steelers offense was anemic and got worse in game losing Rodgers.  Its hard to come away feeling like this is what we can expect more of given all the season long issues the defense has had, not to mention losing Bosa now too for some period of time.  If not for the reeling Steelers offense, we might have been down 3 scores by halftime against another opponent between the turnovers and how bad the offense played. 

 

This is honestly the first time in the Allen era where I don't have confidence in this team going on a run down the stretch.  I am not saying we can't, but in seasons past I have gone on record we would win out and we did.  This year, feels like it can go either way any given week right now, no matter the opponent.  

 

Brings me back to where I said I was last week - I am in the mindset that as of now, everyone is fired, full regime change - BUT they all have 1 shot to win their jobs back, and that is find a way to win the SB this year.  If not, its time for a sweeping change.