Yesterday was a big body blow to the team (especially with Cleveland and Pittsburgh both winning). But I still think a solid regular season run is possible to still make the playoffs.
The team wasn’t healthy yesterday and I think it showed. Getting Tee back and Ja’marr at 100% is going to do wonders. The defense has had its ups and downs all year but have consistently shown an ability to bounce back. It looks rough right now but I think this team still has it in them
Nope, they’re out. Texans are in instead by virtue of their easy remaining games. Everyone will look at their 1-3 start as the problem, but it was this game that they needed most, even more than division games because I believe both Texans and Bengals will be competing for that final wildcard slot and they lose the tiebreaker.
Really need 11-12 wins to make it this year, and win the division outright is probably the only route as there will be a logjam with a bunch of 10-7 teams from AFCN (all four team may finish with over 9 wins) and AFCE/AFCS (Bills/Dolphins/Jaguars/Texans) and at the end of the day, they probably lose most tiebreakers due to their dismal conference record.
Of course anything can happen but this team needs to be at full strength every game to have a chance, and it’s been plagued with consequential injuries all season.