Buffalo Bills Week 12: Buffalo (9-2), Bye Week

Jim Bob

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The simplest way to explain the Bills’ AFC East clinching scenario is this:

  • Both the Jets and Patriots will be eliminated from the division with their next loss, or the Bills’ next win.
  • The Dolphins will be eliminated from the division with any combination of two losses and/or Bills wins.
The rationale is that the worst the Bills can finish is 9-8. If Jets or Patriots lose again, they won’t be able to get to nine wins. If the Dolphins lose twice, they’d be 4-8 and could still match the Bills at 9-8, but the Bills have the tiebreaker from sweeping the season series.

Getting the Dolphins to lose twice and the Patriots and Jets to lose once could happen in the following scenario:

  • Week 12: Patriots beat Dolphins (Bills and Jets on bye week)
  • Week 13: Dolphins lose at Packers, Jets lose to Seahawks, Patriots lose to Colts
Since the Bills have the Sunday night game in Week 13, it’s possible for all four of those results to fall into place even before their next game begins.
 

misterchainsaw

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The AFC North never makes any sense. It's the one division you can actually listen to the old adage and throw their records out the window whenever two of the teams play each other.
 

misterchainsaw

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Both teams with just disastrous clock management there. I'm so happy we have a coach who doesn't actively royally f*** these situations up. Sometimes there's quibbles, sure, but he never makes a complete mess of the clock at halftime or the end of games.

Cleveland missed a chance to run off an extra 20 seconds by taking a false start with 22 on the play clock, then Pittsburgh doesn't call timeout on 3rd down letting Cleveland run the play clock down to 0 before calling timeout themselves and kicking the FG.

EDIT: That said if we didn't have McD I'd take Tomlin all day. I don't think he's a great game day/time management coach, but he sure can build a team.
 
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SwordsgoneWild

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Im hoping this continues.The Steelers have looked like trash outside of their first 2 drives.

I’d easily go back a few weeks and make the trade i proposed for Myles Garrett.
Him and TJ Watt are freaks of nature. I love watching both of them. Just complete game changing players. No one else in the league really comes close.
 
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NotABadPeriod

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Im hoping this continues.The Steelers have looked like trash outside of their first 2 drives.
Their entire offense is "chuck it to Pickens and hope he wins contested catches". It's not a sustainable approach.

Im hoping this continues.The Steelers have looked like trash outside of their first 2 drives.


Him and TJ Watt are freaks of nature. I love watching both of them. Just complete game changing players. No one else in the league really comes close.
Aiden Hutchinson before his injury is in that class too.
 
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SwordsgoneWild

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Their entire offense is "chuck it to Pickens and hope he wins contested catches". It's not a sustainable approach.
And pound Harris/Warren......Pickens has caught some absolute bs balls this year. No way in hell that continues throughout the whole year. Some of his catches have been insane and lucky .

Aiden Hutchinson before his injury is in that class too.
Ah forgot him. Yeah he was getting into that tier as well.
 

NotABadPeriod

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Oct 28, 2006
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Both teams with just disastrous clock management there. I'm so happy we have a coach who doesn't actively royally f*** these situations up. Sometimes there's quibbles, sure, but he never makes a complete mess of the clock at halftime or the end of games.

Cleveland missed a chance to run off an extra 20 seconds by taking a false start with 22 on the play clock, then Pittsburgh doesn't call timeout on 3rd down letting Cleveland run the play clock down to 0 before calling timeout themselves and kicking the FG.

EDIT: That said if we didn't have McD I'd take Tomlin all day. I don't think he's a great game day/time management coach, but he sure can build a team.
Tomlin with another masterclass on what not to do under 2 minutes left on defense. Timeout when the clock was already stopped after the penalty confusion (and I don't hate the decision to back them up when you're thinking it's a FG game in these conditions), then doesn't use the timeout to stop the clock after the 1st and goal play.
 

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