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The Colts game is the season, period

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Not only does the 'math' of it make it a must-win with a 99% guaranteed loss vs the Super Bowl champs pending, but the Colts are a measuring stick for where the Dolphins are. Colts are 80% Not Likely to be a playoff team, either. Unless Tennessee suffers many key injuries, they can win that division at 9-8. Colts Jags and Texans? Blecch.

Lose this game and there Needs to be a trading deadline fire sale.
 
Not really. Remember our goal is 11 wins. You need to get to 11 to ensure a playoff birth will happen.

I count 7 must win games that are completely winnable rest of way

Jets twice
Jags
Giants
Falcons
Texans
Panthers

That’s 8 wins. We need to get to 11.
Which means three more wins among

Vs Colts
Vs Pats
At Bills
At Bucs
At Saints
At Titans
Vs Ravens

If we lose any of the 7 must win games that just means we need an additional win from the 7 “other” games.
 
Falcons and Panthers could both beat us if we cant even beat the Colts. That's the truth.
Panthers dont suck. Their coach is legit and that team is on the rise. Falcons are better than us right now, too, IMO.
Even if just the Panthers beat us out of that first group, Vs Pats and vs Colts are the only winnable games out of that 2nd grouping.

Hello 2022...
 
Third Eye said:
Not really. Remember our goal is 11 wins. You need to get to 11 to ensure a playoff birth will happen.

I count 7 must win games that are completely winnable rest of way

Jets twice
Jags
Giants
Falcons
Texans
Panthers

That’s 8 wins. We need to get to 11.
Which means three more wins among

If we lose any of the 7 must win games that just means we need an additional win from the 7 “other” games.
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The only wins I would count are….

Jest x 2
Jags

All of the other teams match up really well against us.

Giants- I anticipate us not stopping their run game. We will probably let them set season high rushing.

Falcons- this is a tough one, which Falcons team shows up.

Texans- will Tyrod be playing? If so, we don’t do well vs mobile QBs. But, he is broken so.

Losses-

Vs Colts. This could go either way

Vs Pats- loss, X won the first match up. We aren’t sweeping Belicheck

At Bills- I look to just hopefully get a score.

At Bucs- Nope, we are ****ed

At Saints- ****ed, not happening

At Titans- they will have 300 yards rushing

Vs Ravens- ****ed again, they will embarrass us
 
ChitownPhins28 said:
Not only does the 'math' of it make it a must-win with a 99% guaranteed loss vs the Super Bowl champs pending, but the Colts are a measuring stick for where the Dolphins are. Colts are 80% Not Likely to be a playoff team, either. Unless Tennessee suffers many key injuries, they can win that division at 9-8. Colts Jags and Texans? Blecch.

Lose this game and there Needs to be a trading deadline fire sale.
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I agree. This is a must win if we want to get a wild card spot. We already conceded the division to the bills
 
Third Eye said:
Not really. Remember our goal is 11 wins. You need to get to 11 to ensure a playoff birth will happen.

I count 7 must win games that are completely winnable rest of way

Jets twice
Jags
Giants
Falcons
Texans
Panthers

That’s 8 wins. We need to get to 11.
Which means three more wins among

Vs Colts
Vs Pats
At Bills
At Bucs
At Saints
At Titans
Vs Ravens

If we lose any of the 7 must win games that just means we need an additional win from the 7 “other” games.
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I don't see how you are counting the panthers as winnable. We are not better than them
 
We can easily beat the Colts.
Look at the Qbs we face.
Wentz.
Darnold
Mac Jones.
Winston
Wilson x2
Ryan
Danny Dimes
Taylor.
Come on guys are we really scared of any of them.
When Tua gets back in our offence must change and start attacking downfield.
Play Gesicki and Long so Long can both stay in and block or release. Waddle and Fuller downtown.
Keep the faith.
 
It is not. The 1-3 record is something the team could overcome. The problem is the lack of offensive line play or offensive coaching is something they can't overcome.
 
I think I’ve said this before, but I think if you want to see the big picture of this season with a “half glass full” type of outlook, then the old Parcell’s axiom of, the first four weeks are for evaluation, the next four are for fixing the problems you’ve identified through evaluation, and the final 8 are for making your run to the playoffs, is a good way to view things.

If you were to go by that, then it’s safe to say that after 3 weeks that this team knows what needs to be fixed and now has 5 games to fix it, then 9 games to get to 11 wins. But I think 1-3 would make that real hard to do as it leaves no margin for error. I agree, this is most likely a must win game.
 
Long suffering fan said:
We can easily beat the Colts.
Look at the Qbs we face.
Wentz.
Darnold
Mac Jones.
Winston
Wilson x2
Ryan
Danny Dimes
Taylor.
Come on guys are we really scared of any of them.
When Tua gets back in our offence must change and start attacking downfield.
Play Gesicki and Long so Long can both stay in and block or release. Waddle and Fuller downtown.
Keep the faith.
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Tua will be on IR again before the season is over. Plus, he isn’t much better than Brissett
 
It’s definitely a big game, no doubt. The Colts are struggling and so are we. Something has got to give. Wentz was worse than Brissett last weekend, is playing hurt and Indy lacks the kind of skill talent Oakland has. We should win this one despite all of our faults unless we turn it over a lot. Offense has to play to win, take your sacks but no fetal position offense like 3 quarters vs the Raiders.
 
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