AFC WC

[jdl22]

I was going to put this in the official Steelers miss the playoffs thread but decided it should be made more general.


Indy, Cincy, Denver, New England solidly ahead of divisions.
2 WC spots:
Jacksonville 9-4 (7-3 conf) beat Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh 8-5 (6-5 conf) lost to Jacksonville ([censored] Maddox), beat San Diego
San Diego 8-5 (6-3 conf) lost to Pittsburgh, beat KC
Kansas City 8-5 (7-3 conf) lost to SD

Remaining schedules:
Jacksonville - SF, @ Houston, Tennessee
Pittsburgh - @ Minnesota, @ Cleveland, Detroit
San Diego - @ Indy, @ KC, Denver
Kansas City - @ NYG, San Diego, Cincinnati

Two team tiebreaker is head to head, conference games, common opponents. Three or more and first each division is broken down to 1 team, if still 3 or more and one team has beat other 2 they win, conference, common games... Basically you do one of above until it's down to 2 teams tied and then do 2 team tiebreaker.

Who do you guys think are in?

I don't see Jacksonville not getting in with that schedule. Pittsburgh should win those games. Today's performance has me hopeful as the Bears are better than all remaining opponents. I'm most worried about Cleveland as they will be fired up. It'll be like rivalry week in college football when a losing team is trying to knock off the rival. San Diego is dead with that schedule and losing the tiebreaker with Pittsburgh. Kansas City has a tough schedule as well. They are somewhat well off in that they "control their own destiny" which is an overused cliche. If they win out and so does Pittsburgh, they will go through with a better conference record (and won't be in the 3 way tie which currently puts Pittsburgh ahead first).

At this point I'm going to potentially put the jinx out there and say Jacksonville and Pittsburgh are in.