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5 minutes ago, Einstein said:

 

Yeah this was not a game we needed.


It would have been nice for the Vikes to win but the Bengals are going to lose at least 1 (if not 2) of their remaining games.

Lose one and they are in the playoffs..... A loss here would have been huge for us if we go on to lose tomorrow.....

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5 minutes ago, Mikie2times said:

Yup, that’s great and all that they might lose some of those games, but two of the three are against other contenders 


The Chiefs are not a wild card contender. The Bengals losing to the Chiefs wouldn’t matter at all. The Browns have a 1.5 game lead on us with 4 games to go. The Bengals losing to the Browns likely won’t matter.

 

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9 minutes ago, Lionel Hutz said:

Huh? This game mattered a lot. When you're chasing this many teams you need all the help you can get.

 

All four of those teams are ahead of the Bills in the playoff race. Bengals losing some of those games won't necessarily help the Bills. 

The bengals winning some of those games could help though lol there’s three wildcard spots in play and the afc south has to have a winner…so 4 spots on the line really.  Maybe the bengals stay hot get wildcard 1 and knock the browns and Steelers back a game.  Still leaves 2 wildcard spots and we catch up a game on those two teams 


it changed our playoff odds a couple percent probably 

 

seems like people have the mindset that it’s a bunch of teams fighting for one playoff spot but it’s a bunch of teams fighting for 3 or 4 depending on how you look at it.  
 

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Just now, Process said:

Lose one and they are in the playoffs.....

 

Eh, maybe not.

 

The Bengals currently lose most tiebreakers. Which is why they are in 10th place in the conference.

 

This game was 0 percentage points on the divisional scale and only a few percentage points on the wild card scale.

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7 minutes ago, Einstein said:

 

Have you run the math on this? Because I have. This game was a few percentage points. 

 

This game was a “want” not a “need”.

 

If the Bills win out, we are in. 

If your assumptions rest on the Bills winning out yeah these games really don't matter, but the Bills winning out is far from guaranteed. 

 

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Big Blitz said:

Most optimal results now 

 

Miami loss v Jets in awful weather and with their 3rd center and other cones on the Oline 

 

Pittsburgh loss at Indy 

 

Denver loss at Detroit

 

Houston with no QB and no offensive weapons left loss at Tennessee.  

 

this is good a primer as any. I'd go along with this. It clearly isn't an exact science

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2 minutes ago, Big Blitz said:


 

Not officially but Minnesota needed to win out.  


If they won out, they’d win the division because the play Detroit twice. 
 

They can still win the division, even if Detroit wins tonight, but they’d need to win out and have Detroit lose to Dallas. 
 

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