Bengals Win Out + Broncos & Colts go 2-3, Dolphins go 3-2 & WE'RE IN!!!

[Essex Johnson]

(12-10-2024, 12:37 PM)kevin Wrote: I could see a 9-8 team in the play-offs.  Any team in the play-offs is dangerous.  It is still possible for Bengals to finish with a winning record of 9-8, and it teams in Wild Card lose some games, stranger things have happened.  I'm old enough that I saw the 1970 Bengals start 1-6 on the season and make the play-offs. On the play-offs they lost to the Johnny Unitas Colts who won the Super Bowl.  So if a 1-6 team can get in, why not a 5-8 team that wins out and goes 9-8....The Defense would have to play much better, but who knows, maybe the Defense will play better down the stretch.

outside of unlikely we can go 4-0 is the division record schedule and other teams schedules.  The team people are sleeping on is Colts, Colts 4 game schedule Denver, Titans Gaints, Jags, I dont see them going 2-2 in that schedule and they would have a 7-5 division record best we can do .  Now lets assume they go 1-3 , now lets move to Denver, we would need Denver to beat Colts, then lose to Chargers, Bengals and Chiefs, possible but odds are Chiefs will not need last game and starters will sit, so likely 2-2 is worse case.. so 10 wins,  now Chargers: Bucs, Broncos, Patriots and Raiders.   i can't see anything worse than 2-2 and if one of those loses is to Denver, not good. 

 If Colts had a harder schedule and with Broncos playing Chargers and Bengals back to back weeks, and our schedule of Titans, Broncos, Browns, we could go into last week with similar of hope, but I think Colts will lock us out by final week even if we somehow went 3-0