JujuFish

It lowers the winning percentage for both teams. That in turn lowers their opponents' SOS and SOV

Week 18. But I was misreading what you meant.

With all the tickets sold and stadiums booked, I find the odds infinitesimally small.

And give every team except the Bills and Bengals a week to rest and recover. I don't see it happening.

I highly doubt the game gets made up. No time for it.

I can't watch because I'm at a New Year's party. How are they looking?

Screw that, let's control this game and win convincingly.

Silly NS, you underestimated the Bills. 35-13 😉 (Nice call, BTW)

Good statement to open the second half.

If it was a joke, it was a bad one. You said the person you quoted understood it was a joke, but I think they were just trying to defuse the situation by, you know, actually making a joke.

Whew. There we go.

Tonight, we get @nfreeman's 3-2 win, and Mitts gets the game winner. You heard it here first.

I was wondering about that and I was hoping you would know. Nice.

Love it!

I'm just gonna say it. I want to be above Deluca 500 for Christmas. Let's go, Buffalo!

It's a real possibility that Cincinnati doesn't take their division. If Baltimore wins their three non-Cincinnati games (@Cle, Atl, Pit), all very winnable games without Lamar, and if the Bills beat the Bengals in their week 17 match, then Baltimore takes the division even with a week 18 loss to Cincinnati, due to a better divisional record (5-1 vs 4-2).

The Bills are 2-2, The Dolphins are 2-1. With a Bills win, that becomes 3-2 to the Dolphins' 2-2. However, in order to end up tied in that scenario, the Bills would have to lose out (which means losing to the Patriots), bringing their divisional record to 3-3, and the Dolphins would have to win out (including beating the Jets and Patriots in the final two weeks), bringing their divisional record to 4-2. I do think Miami is likely to win out (vs GB, @NE, vs NYJ), but I find it incredibly unlikely that Buffalo would lose out (@CHI, @CIN, vs NE). Obviously Cincinnati will be a very tough game, but if they were to drop both games to Chicago and New England, I'd say they don't deserve to win the division.

That is the exact situation I'm talking about. If the Bills win next week and still end up tied, Miami takes the division.

Not quite. Miami would hold the tiebreaker with a better divisional record should they end up tied (Buffalo would have to lose to the Patriots).

1 revenge game down, 1 to go. Go Bills.

If it's a partial tear, why would he be shelved for over a year? (Genuinely asking; I don't know much about this stuff.)

I was going to mention that it could still get past head-to-head tiebreakers in a 3-way tie, buuuuuuut Buffalo and Cincinnati have both beaten Kansas City and Tennessee, so the 6-6 Chargers or 4-8 Jaguars would have to somehow not only win their divisions (both teams are 3 games behind in their division), but the Bills/Bengals/Ravens would have to also lose a bunch of games to actually end up in a BUF-CIN-LAC or BUF-CIN-JAX tie, which I'm honestly not sure is even possible.

Conference record is next, which we own over Cincy. That said, we play @Cincy for our penultimate game, so that will take precedence.

Hell yeah!

No, he's still in the process of establishing possession at that point. He doesn't maintain it, and therefore it is not an interception. A better argument for it being an interception, I think, is to say that he appears to have tucked the ball away before he contacts the ground, which is explicitly written as satisfying (c) in the rule, as you've pasted earlier. Now that I think about that, I think I might change my mind on the ruling.