Quote:
Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles
o
The Colts having more of a cushion to finish with one of the top-2 seeds in the playoffs was the benefit of the Bills losing last night. Buffalo now has 4 losses, and the Colts only have 2.
The Colts are 2 and-a-half games ahead of the Texans ...... and if the Colts can't hold off the Texans with a 2 and-a-half game lead more than halfway into the season, they aren't going to be good enough to win the conference championship and make it to the Super Bowl for the first time since 2009 anyway.
So if you're rooting for the Colts to hang another AFC South division title banner in the building, you were rooting for the Bills last night. If you are rooting for the Colts to hang an AFC Championship banner and possibly another Super Bowl banner in the building, you were rooting for the Texans. I was rooting for the latter.
o
|
As the 2006 Colts showed us, anything can happen once you reach the playoffs. But you have to get there first. That’s the main consideration. And the Texans winning last night was worse for the Colts playoff chances than the alternative.
We also haven’t won the AFC South since 2014 and last night made that more complicated, because now both the Jags and Texans are only 2 games behind us in the win column. We have to play them both twice.
I’m not concerned about the 1 seed because I think New England has that locked up with their easy remaining schedule. The Bills and Ravens are the toughest games New England has left, along with the likes of the Bengals, Jets, and Dolphins. I’ll be surprised if they lose more than one game the rest of the way.