I agree with BigCatCountry on all those games.  I think Buffalo is the obvious choice to root for because we have the head to head tiebreaker over them.  Kansas City we dont.  And both teams have a pretty cupcake schedule the rest of the way.  It's not as though KC has a bunch of games against the Pats, Panthers, Cardinals, etc.. where you know they have a bunch of losses in their future.  And as far as Tenn-Oak, I'm pulling for Tennessee.  They're out of the race.  They'd have to win out to even have a chance.  If we lose to them next week, we are probably out of the race so assuming we beat them, that gives them 9 losses and they are officially out.  If anything it helps us to have them win every single remaining game except against us.  That would give one more loss to the Colts, Texans, Jets, and Raiders.  That would be ideal.

 

I still think we need a lot of help.  Driving down to the beach for the holiday I was listening to the Jaguars Monday show and Pete Prisco was on there saying if we go 8-8 its a lock we win the division and Boselli was saying he was bummed the Falcons choked against the Colts but it doesnt matter as we still play them both.  I dont see that at all.  Pretty strong likelihood we need to win the the division outright.  A few weeks ago I thought 7-9 could win the division.  But now it looks like 8-8 is a minimum.  But the kicker for us though is odds are we wont the win the tiebreaker against either of them.  We need them to help us.  The first division tiebreaker is head to head.  Obviously we cant win that against either team as we've already lost to both.  Best case is a split.  The 2nd tiebreak is division record.  Colts are 3-0, we are 1-2.  We need the Colts to lose out and we need to win out to win the division record tiebreak against them.  Is that possible?  Sure, but likely?  Not really.  Realistic best case is a tie against them.  The Texans are 2-1.  Assuming we beat them that puts us both at 2-2 and both of us would have a game against the Titans and Colts.  So this one we've got more of a shot but we still need to do better.  We need to go 2-0 in those games while they go 1-1 or we need them to lose both while we only win one.  We need them to lose and help us out.  And then the 3rd tiebreaker is record in common opponents.  Ironically if we beat the Chargers this weekend, we've officially lost this tiebreaker to the Texans.  And if the Colts lose at Pittsburgh in a couple weeks which is very possible, weve officially lost that tiebreaker to them as well.  So that doesnt leave us many options.  If our best case in tiebreak #1 is a split and if we are losing tiebreak #3, then our only real option is win tiebreak #2 which is division record.  We're in a pretty bad spot as far as division tiebreakers.  We probably need to win the division outright.  And if one of them finishes with 8 wins, we need to win 9.

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