The #2 seed is actually obtainable now

[The Red King]

For those wondering, I do recall talk some awhile back about some kind of rule where if divisional rivals meet in the playoffs, the division winner would have to go to the Wild Card if that Wild Card did better against the division winner, or something like that.  But nothing ever came from those talks.

[LABILLBACKER]

15 minutes ago, John from Riverside said:

All I want is a chance in the playoffs
 

It looked like we were going to get bounced

Beat the Patriots and we can still lose to Miami and still have a 98% chance.  Alot of stuff has gone our way these last 3 weeks.

[The Red King]

2 minutes ago, JohninMinn. said:

This is all madness if the Bills don't win the Super Bowl. Save your energy fellas I was permanently damaged when we lost four in a row and I was at all four.

 

Why are you still watching, if everything but a Super Bowl win is pain?

[TrentEdwardsCheckDownOn4th]

The chiefs are essentially locked into the 3 seed. They obv wont catch Baltimore for the 1 seed.  They almost certainly can't catch miami or buffalo for the 2 seed.  And they hold the tiebreaker over Jacksonville so they won't be the 4 seed. And chiefs only need one more win to clinch their division. 

 

If bills somehow win division their path looks something like:

Steelers at home

Chiefs at home

Baltimore on road or maybe Miami at home 

 

Wow! How awesome would a home championship game be. 

[Mike in Horseheads]

7 minutes ago, chongli said:

I will be furious if KC and Buffalo both finish at 11-6 and we have to go to KC for the WC. Just like 1980 when San Diego and we finished 11-5 and we beat them in the regular season, but we had to go to San Diego for the WC. KC has always played in a weak division.

 

Miami had better lose to Baltimore next week.

If Joe Ferguson wasn't playing on a broken ankle we would have won that dam game .

[The Red King]

Just now, LABILLBACKER said:

Beat the Patriots and we can still lose to Miami and still have a 98% chance.  Alot of stuff has gone our way these last 3 weeks.

 

If we beat the Pats, KC beats Cincy and Seattle beats Pitt, we secure a playoff birth before Week 18.

[Warcodered]

18 minutes ago, Ray Stonada said:

This is wild!

 

I’m not sure: is there a rule saying a division champ gets home field over a wild card, in case we finish as a wild card but KC wins their division and we have the same record?

 

They’re coming to Buffalo, right?

Home field is decided by highest seed.

[TrentEdwardsCheckDownOn4th]

Hypotheitcal question about the miami game... let's say miami beats Baltimore and has the divison locked up heading into the last week.  And also the bills locked up a playoff spot after beating new England. 

 

A buffalo win In week 18 would almost certainly mean the 6th seed and a matchup @ kansas city.  Or a loss to Miami and bills finish as the 7th seed at Baltimore.  Which would you prefer?

[dollars 2 donuts]

2 minutes ago, TrentEdwardsCheckDownOn4th said:

The chiefs are essentially locked into the 3 seed. They obv wont catch Baltimore for the 1 seed.  They almost certainly can't catch miami or buffalo for the 2 seed.  And they hold the tiebreaker over Jacksonville so they won't be the 4 seed. And chiefs only need one more win to clinch their division. 

 

If bills somehow win division their path looks something like:

Steelers at home

Chiefs at home

Baltimore on road or maybe Miami at home 

 

Wow! How awesome would a home championship game be. 

 

Not gonna lie, Trent, I read your post and…

 

and..

 

…it moved.

 

I’ll leave it at that.

 

 

[Buffalo03]

1 minute ago, The Red King said:

 

If we beat the Pats, KC beats Cincy and Seattle beats Pitt, we secure a playoff birth before Week 18.

It's important that the 49ers beat the Ravens tonight and then the Ravens beat the Dolphins and Steelers to secure the 1. If the Ravens win tonight and next week, they Could could rest starters against the Steelers in week 18. We can't have that

[The Red King]

1 minute ago, TrentEdwardsCheckDownOn4th said:

Hypotheitcal question about the miami game... let's say miami beats Baltimore and has the divison locked up heading into the last week.  And also the bills locked up a playoff spot after beating new England. 

 

A buffalo win In week 18 would almost certainly mean the 6th seed and a matchup @ kansas city.  Or a loss to Miami and bills finish as the 7th seed at Baltimore.  Which would you prefer?

 

I don't like going into the playoffs off a loss.  I'd rather a Week 18 win outright.

[DCOrange]

4 minutes ago, TrentEdwardsCheckDownOn4th said:

Hypotheitcal question about the miami game... let's say miami beats Baltimore and has the divison locked up heading into the last week.  And also the bills locked up a playoff spot after beating new England. 

 

A buffalo win In week 18 would almost certainly mean the 6th seed and a matchup @ kansas city.  Or a loss to Miami and bills finish as the 7th seed at Baltimore.  Which would you prefer?

I would rather play KC personally. They just aren’t good this season. We arguably aren’t either but Baltimore is in the extremely short conversation of good teams this year IMO. 

[Governor]

10 minutes ago, LABILLBACKER said:

Beat the Patriots and we can still lose to Miami and still have a 98% chance.  Alot of stuff has gone our way these last 3 weeks.

I assume some of that can change with bad results next week?

[Draconator]

6 minutes ago, Buffalo03 said:

It's important that the 49ers beat the Ravens tonight and then the Ravens beat the Dolphins and Steelers to secure the 1. If the Ravens win tonight and next week, they Could could rest starters against the Steelers in week 18. We can't have that

That won't matter at all

[nedboy7]

I hope this doesn't mean we are dropping in the draft order! 

[Buffalo716]

22 minutes ago, The Red King said:

For those wondering, I do recall talk some awhile back about some kind of rule where if divisional rivals meet in the playoffs, the division winner would have to go to the Wild Card if that Wild Card did better against the division winner, or something like that.  But nothing ever came from those talks.

That literally makes no sense

 

What's the incentive for winning the division? The only incentive is one guaranteed home game

[Virgil]

7 minutes ago, nedboy7 said:

I hope this doesn't mean we are dropping in the draft order! 

Don’t worry, there will plenty of DBs at 32

[Gman10]

How confident are you guys in the Ravens?

[Dablitzkrieg]

Duh

[Big Turk]

32 minutes ago, Einstein said:

 

Thank you for putting me in my place. Hope you feel better.

 

I'd feel better if someone that acts like an expert all the time knew basic stuff.