This is why the loss today crushed my hopes for the first time this season.
Record and Conference records of AFC teams in the hunt:
Bengals - 5-3 (conf 4-3)
Steelers - 6-4 (conf 5-3)
Ravens - 6-4 (conf 3-4)
Miami - 5-4 (conf 4-2)
Houston - 4-5 (conf 3-2) w/ head-to-head win against Bills
Chiefs - 6-3 (conf 5-2) w/ head-to-head win against Bills
Chargers - 5-4 (conf 4-3) w/ head-to-head win against the Bills
Bills - 5-4 (conf 2-4)
That doesn't even include the 4 current division leaders that could get knocked out of the lead and compete with us for a WC spot who have conference records of 5-2, 4-3, 5-2, and 4-1.
We're now basically dead last in the WC race with Green Bay, Denver(AFC), and New England(AFC) still on the schedule. Even if we win all our other AFC games this season except for IN Denver and IN New England our conference record will end up being 5-6 with head-to-head loses with 3 WC contenders. So don't be surprised when the "playoff odds" comes out this week and the Bills' chances are listed at like 10%.