Take off the aqua colored glasses. We are a long shot to make the playoffs. Everyone keeps saying well we have a great chance if we win out yet we have three teams fighting for their playoff lives ahead of us who are as good as we are. To think we are gonna win out is absolutely a long shot. And even if we do we aren't a lock to be in the playoffs.
Actually we have 2 team ahead of us in the wildcard (Broncos/Ravens), either one loses, we take over one of the wildcards......and 1 team ahead of us in the division (Patriots), they lose, we take over the East.
The way you put it, it sounds like we need to overtake all three teams to get in the playoffs, which is not that case, all we need is one of those 3 teams to lose 1 game, with us winning out.
We have no superstars to fall back on yet. If we get behind by more than one score we are usually gonna lose (yeah I know we beat the pats that way but that won't happen often). We are what we are. If we don't make the playoffs then fine, we aren't going to the superbowl anyway. Enjoy the ride rather than dreaming about the destination. We are headed in the right direction. We WILL get there, just not this year.
We took the Colts to the very end, and and should have beaten them.
In SD, we were on the heals of the Chargers, and if not for having to bring in an un prepared Henne, we might have gone ahead, and maybe won.
We totally crushed the the Saints in the 1st half, and if not for some bad mistakes on our part, might have had enough to hold on for the win.
We were in shooting matches with the Jets in both games.
We beat a Bucs and Panther team after then were coming off amazing wins against good teams, and looking hot (Panthers had just beaten the Falcons, Bucs had beaten the Packers), and we beat each the folllowing week.
We have beean tested all year, every game with the exception of the 1st Bills game, was tough this year, and we failed to finish in a few, but succeeded way more, we are battle test and more, and if we were to get into the playoff.....
NO TEAM WILL WANT TO PLAY US, trust me on this.