there is no way you can tell there will be a tie with less than 4 weeks of football. there is no way losing will guarenttee a win. What if we win the same amount of games in every catagory as new england but they win one nfc game more than us? then we are going to really hate losing that game, aren't we? you see, there is NO WAY you can be for sure how many games you win, so you take as many as you can, no matter what they are.
if we lost the game today, you cant say that means we will beat an afc team just because we lost today. that is stupid.