After winning four of the last five games, we have to start talking about simply clinching a top five pick instead of a specific pick number. During the TNF game one of the commentators said if the NFL draft was today, we would be third behind the Texans and Rams. Less than two hours later, we got our fourth win, which would put us behind all teams with three wins and the Vikings if they never win again this season. Now the important thing to remember here is nobody else has played in Week 14 yet, so we have to wait until Sunday night to figure out where we currently stand in the draft order.

 

This is why it matters what other teams do: The Vikings are 3-8-1 and the Redskins, Falcons, and Buccaneers are 3-9. Now I can't root for the Falcons this week because they play at Green Bay but I will definitely root for them after that. On my to-do list Sunday is watch the Bills at Buccaneers game (1:00 ET on CBS). What we are hoping for now is simply to get as high a pick as possible because I expect the last three games to be win win loss for a 6-10 record.

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