AFC EAST + Playoffs Breakdown

Okay. you all know where we are at. The Pats, Bills, and Jets are all 5-3, while we are 4-4. Here is how I see the rest of the season breaking down for each team.

vs. Seattle - W

vs. Oakland - W

vs. NE - W

@St. Louis & @ KC - 1 Loss and 1 win

@ Buffalo - W

vs. San Fran. - W

@ Jets - L

Record 10-6

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NE Patriots

vs. Buffalo - W

vs. Jets - W

@ Miami - L

Pittsburgh - L

@ Seattle - W

@ Oakland -W

vs. AZ - L

@ Buffalo - L

Record 9-7

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Buffalo

@ NE - L

vs. CLE - W

@ K.C. - L

vs. San Fran - W

vs. Miami - L

@ NY Jets - L

@ Denver - L

vs. NE - W

Record 8-8

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NY Jets

vs. St. Louis - W

at. NE - L

at. Tennessee - L

vs. Denver - W

@ San Fran - W

Buffalo - W

@ Seattle - W

Miami - W

Record 11-5

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What this means. First off, this would mean that Miami and the jets would both be 10-5 going into the season finale, which means the division would be up for grabs that day. If we do finish 10-6 we gotta hope Baltimore falls off the map since they have the tie breaker. We would obvioulsy have a tie breaker over Denver and San Diego. The good thing is Balt has a killer schedule left whith games at Giants, philly, washington, pittsburgh, and at Dallas in late December (maybe the boys will have their act together by then).

Really the only other teams to worry about losing a tie breaker to would be Indy, Jacksonville, or Houston. Houston beat us, so I am going to be rooting hard against them. Jacksonville is playing like crap and is 3-5 in the conferecne. we are 4-3 in the conference, so we currently have an edge against them. (conference record would be the tiebreaker, since no head to head matchup)

As for indy, they are a tough team to get a read on. If you look at their remaining schedule i think they are likely to beat houston, cincy, and detroit all at home and the rest of their games could be toss ups; on the road at pitt, at san diego, at cleveland, and at Jacksonville. one thing that worries me is that their last game is at home vs. Tenn. Tenn could easily have home field wrapped up by then and could have nothing to play for, i.e they rest, indy wins and we lost a tie breaker to them. any ways, i think indy could win 10 games. their current conference record is 3-2.

So in conlcusion, we have a shot to win the division. if we dont i think there are 3 contenders, Miami, Indy, and Baltimore for the 2 wild card slots. start cheering against indy and Baltimore!