10-22-2015, 12:29 PM
(10-20-2015, 09:39 PM)West Union KennyG Wrote: It seems like each week people say we need to win this week to be legit. I don't know how true that is - but this next game is a really important game for us for a lot of reasons. The most important reason being, Pittsburgh is the ONLY team standing between us and The AFC North Championship this year. And a win in 2 weeks in their house would give us a 3 game lead, a head-to-head win, and a division win. A 3 game lead with 9 to play would be great. And the next time we play them would be in our house.
If we win Sunday, after starting the season 7-0 (2 Cincinnati records at the same time) - Pittsburgh could finish the last part of their season 8-0 (highly unlikely) - and we'd just have to finish 6-3 (assuming we take care of Cleveland and Baltimore in those 6).
Slightly lower down the list, but still important, it's a conference win and another overall win against two teams in competition for our playoff seeding - New England and Denver. All games are important to win. But the two games we have left with Pittsburgh and the game against Denver are arguably the most important games we have left.
Yup. Winning this game would be HUGE. It's obviously not a must win, but it's difficult to overstate just how big an advantage it would be.
