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Looking at the rest of the NFL... who else is "on the bubble" for a WC spot?
NFC East (one of the following):
PHI - 7-3 (trending down)
DAL - 7-3 (trending down)
NFC North (one of the following):
DET - 7-3 (trending down)
GB - 7-3 (trending up)
NFC South:
None
NFC West (potentially too far behind AZ):
SF - 6-4 (trending up)
SEA - 6-4 (trending down)
This is essentially 4 teams fighting for two spots, as the East and North divisions will send their division winners, and as it stands right now, AZ has a 3 game lead over SEA and SF.
Short of it is we really need to play flawless football the rest of the way to get a home game. Based on our running attack, that is possible - however the injury to Unger might take the starch out of those sails. Defensively and offensively, the team should revert to a game based on toughness and no more cutesy bubble screens (gag) and low percentage pick-play fade routes on 4th down (double-gag).
I think others have said that Seattle has the toughest remaining schedule - so that means potentially 4-2 the rest of the way may not guarantee anything, 5-1 should get us in, and of course 6-0 could be flirting with a first round bye (tiebreaker with GB and PHI if we can win it). That's a lot of if's - but it does leave a little more hope than expected knowing that there are exactly 2 other teams we have to be better than to make it in to the post season.
Won't be long before ESPN launches it's playoffs machine. Will be fun to plug & play the scenarios as they unfold!
NFC East (one of the following):
PHI - 7-3 (trending down)
DAL - 7-3 (trending down)
NFC North (one of the following):
DET - 7-3 (trending down)
GB - 7-3 (trending up)
NFC South:
None
NFC West (potentially too far behind AZ):
SF - 6-4 (trending up)
SEA - 6-4 (trending down)
This is essentially 4 teams fighting for two spots, as the East and North divisions will send their division winners, and as it stands right now, AZ has a 3 game lead over SEA and SF.
Short of it is we really need to play flawless football the rest of the way to get a home game. Based on our running attack, that is possible - however the injury to Unger might take the starch out of those sails. Defensively and offensively, the team should revert to a game based on toughness and no more cutesy bubble screens (gag) and low percentage pick-play fade routes on 4th down (double-gag).
I think others have said that Seattle has the toughest remaining schedule - so that means potentially 4-2 the rest of the way may not guarantee anything, 5-1 should get us in, and of course 6-0 could be flirting with a first round bye (tiebreaker with GB and PHI if we can win it). That's a lot of if's - but it does leave a little more hope than expected knowing that there are exactly 2 other teams we have to be better than to make it in to the post season.
Won't be long before ESPN launches it's playoffs machine. Will be fun to plug & play the scenarios as they unfold!
