11-06-2018, 02:31 PM
(11-06-2018, 11:30 AM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: I was listening to Mo Egger yesterday and he was talking about just tanking vs New Orleans. Basically, we have no shot of winning, and with Baltimore coming up the following week, we should not risk Dalton, Mixon or any of our other major players getting injured for a lost cause of a game.
He went through the AFC wild card contenders as such:
Miami is 5-4 with the Packers, Patriots and Vikings remaining on their schedule, so their best case scenario is probably 9-7 (and we own the tie breaker).
No other contenders in the East.
The Titans and Jags are a hot mess and he doesn't believe the Titans will go 5-3 to end their season to end on 9-7.
The Jags would need to end 6-2 to even have a shot at the wild card at 9-7.
The Chargers have probably already secured a playoff spot at 6-2. And there is no other competition in the AFC West for a playoff seed.
So that leaves Baltimore, sitting at 4-5. They'd need to go 5-2 in the remainder of their season to even get to 9-7.
So he's saying, if we can ignore New Orleans, count it as a loss, rest all of your starters and go into Baltimore healthy and rested (who are coming off of a bye anyway) we have hand them their 6th loss, putting them at 4-6 and then they'd need to finish 5-1 to even make 9-7. And, in the case that they did, we would only need to go 3-3 (6-4 after losing to NO and winning vs Baltimore) in our final 6 games to guarantee a playoff spot, since beating Baltimore would give us the head to head tie breaker.
The odds of going 3-3 against the Browns, Broncos, Raiders, Chargers, Browns and Steelers is, in his opinion, a pretty good bet. And that'd only be necessary if one of those teams did end at 9-7, as we'd win any tiebreaker at 8-8 if none made it to 9-7.
What are your guys' thoughts on his opinion of the playoff outlook and whether or not to tank the New Orleans game?
I don't know if we tank but we are coming off a bye where we usually lose, that is the main reason for us tanking
that and this pathetic Defense going against the great Drew Brees. But their Defense is not the best in the world
either and Dalton, Boyd and Mixon have all been very good to great this year.
The Saints are coming off two big wins and just knocked off the best team in the league. They could have a let
down game yah never know. But without AJ i don't see us winning this game.
I just hope to see a better Defense out on the field in this one and no more injuries. Then we can make a run.
Like you said, lots of ways for us to still make the Playoffs as long as we win the games we should.
