Between the Top 7: What Loss Would Each Team Want Back?

[ryguy101]

Between the Top 7: What Loss Would Each Team Want Back? 

Week 15 Edition

 

Broncos

Pats

Jags 

Steelers

Chargers

Bills 

Texans

 

[BearNorth]

Bills - def Pats at home.  

[BruceVilanch]

9 minutes ago, BearNorth said:

Bills - def Pats at home.  

Pretty easy pick

[dayman]

Whatever loss each team had to their closest division competitor, or conference competitor, or just conference loss….depending on the situation.

 

Not trying to be an ass, but there is actually and answer to this for every team that is objectively correct and you just look at their place in the standings and schedule to determine it, it isn’t very hard to do and therefore this just isn’t a very interesting question for discussion.

 

Obviously the Pats for the Bills. Each other team has a fairly obvious answer for themselves as well.

Edited 1 hour ago by dayman

[Billsfanatic8989]

Broncos- Colts. They had it won and got porked by the refs. 

 

Patriots-Raiders game. I know opening day is weird. And is not a sign of things to come. But that is a disastrous organization from top to bottom. If the two teams played Sunday, the Raiders would get obliterated.

 

Jags-Texans game. Huge lead blown to the backup

 

Steelers-Bills. They probably find a way to win if the first turnover does not happen

 

Chargers-Washington. In retrospect, that was a terrible loss.

 

Bills-Dolphins game. The Patriots are good. Losing like that to Miami might be what puts us on the road in the postseason. That was the ugliest game all year. Where there was no hope from start to end

 

Texans-Bucs game. One Mayfield scramble stop from a win

1 minute ago, dayman said:

Whatever loss each team had to their closest division competitor, or conference competitor, or just conference loss….depending on the situation.

 

Not trying to be an ass, but there is actually and answer to this for every team that is objectively correct and you just look at their place in the standings and schedule to determine it, it isn’t very hard to do and therefore this just isn’t a very interesting question for discussion.

 

Obviously the Pats for the Bills. Each other team has a fairly obvious answer for themselves as well.

I only choose Miami because it was shocking, unacceptable and disheartening. 

[dayman]

Here are the answers:
 

Seed

Team

Record

Most Damaging Loss

Opponent (Rec)

Primary Consequence

1

Denver Broncos

11-2

Week 3

Pittsburgh Steelers (7-6)

Surrendered H2H leverage to a potential Divisional Round opponent and blemished an otherwise perfect AFC resume.

2

New England Patriots

11-2

Week 1

Las Vegas Raiders (2-11)

A catastrophic "Common Opponent" failure that currently hands the No. 1 seed tiebreaker to Denver.

3

Jacksonville Jaguars

9-4

Week 10

Houston Texans (8-5)

Nullified a potential season sweep, splitting the H2H tiebreaker and keeping the division race a toss-up.

4

Pittsburgh Steelers

7-6

Week 7

Cincinnati Bengals (4-9)

A division loss to a non-playoff team that severely weakens their hold on the AFC North against Baltimore.

5

Los Angeles Chargers

9-4

Week 7

Indianapolis Colts (8-5)

Handed a direct H2H tiebreaker advantage to the primary team chasing them for a Wild Card spot.

6

Buffalo Bills

9-4

Week 5

New England Patriots (11-2)

Effectively destroyed realistic hopes of winning the AFC East, locking them into the Wild Card road path.

7

Houston Texans

8-5

Week 3

Jacksonville Jaguars (9-4)

The root cause of their current deficit in the AFC South; a win here would have them leading the division today.

Edited 45 minutes ago by dayman

[RiotAct]

Pats… however, the loss against Miami was inexcusable.