Book it. We will finish the season 10-7 and make a run in the playoffs. Bear down!
This is the preferred result. Tanking is not a winning strategy and winning games is ALWAYS, yes always, better than losing
Look at Minnesota. Cousins goes down, Jefferson is out, they could have easily hit the tank button and lost out the rest of the season with a rookie at QB instead they got lucky with Dobbs and they aren’t giving up
Current playoff odds 2% to make.
Win out 99%
6-1 (Loss at Browns) 77%
6-1 (Loss at Lions) 60%
5-2 (Combo of losses between AZ, ATL, CLE) Range 10% (AZ,ATL), 20% (CLE,ATL), 25% (CLE,AZ)
5-2 (Loss Vs Lions and at Browns) 16%
5-2 (Loss at Lions and at Browns) 15%
Any 4-3 Combo <1%
Really best chance to make playoffs is at least winning 3 division games.
Using the NYT Simulator which has a good track record of accuracy.
I’m not sure 10 wins gets you in this year. There are three non-division leaders who already have 6 and we’d probably lose every tiebreaker.
Wins go before losses fyi.
We beat the league’s worst team by a FG last Thurs. What games left look like wins for this team? Maybe the Browns since Watson is out, but don’t see many other Ws out there