Obviously, we don’t want to see this team lose any games, and while running the table is not out of the question, the likelihood of it happening is low (not impossible; just low).
That being said, from a tiebreaker perspective, if we could “choose” a game to lose, the best would be the next one. As it stands now…
- The Eagles are the only NFC team without a loss in the conference. The Lions have already lost to the Seahawks, so a better conference record would give us the tiebreaker over Detroit. Losing to an AFC team won’t hurt our tiebreaker against the Lions.
- We have San Francisco and Seattle remaining in which we could realistically finish with the same record (more on Dallas below). We lose to either and they own the tiebreaker against us for playoff seeding.
- If we split with Dallas, the next tiebreaker is best record in games within the division. They’ve already swept the Giants, and we’ve already swept the Commanders. Assuming we both sweep the entire division and split with each other, then the next tiebreaker is games against common opponents (which, at this point, they own, because they’ve beaten the Jets and haven’t lost to anyone we’ve beaten yet).
Buffalo is our only AFC opponent remaining, and I would not want to lose wearing kelly greens, but taking tiebreakers into consideration, a loss to Buffalo would hurt us the least.
Preseason 2024 game 1