Browns beat Chiefs Colts lose

[PD101]

Derick Anderson leads the Browns to a comeback win over the Chiefs. Had a hell of a game.

The Titans won on a 60 yard field goal in the last few second. Good for us still in home field fight for the playoffs.

[Ravens0587]

yeah that makes the loss on thursday harder b/c we would have been tied with the colts and Chargers for 1st place in the AFC and we would have the tie breaker against the chargers........

[Raven Insane]

Now N.E. breathing down our necks.

[Luker218]

I was just looking at the schedules for Indy, S.D., New England and us. It's still pretty much right there for the Ravens to grab one of the top 2 seeds. Obviously, we need to take care of business by beating Kansas City.

Indy's remaining schedule: @Jacksonville (who knows which Jags team shows up), Cincy (should be a great game), @Houston, and finishes with Miami at home. It's not unreasonable to think they will lose another game and there's a small chance they could lose 2.

San Diego's remaining schedule: vs. Denver (division rival), vs. Kansas City (division), @Seattle (tough game), and finishes with Arizona at home. San Diego certainly benefits from playing 3 out of their last 4 at home. However, They have 3 very tough games to play with two of them against division opponents. I expect them to lose at least 1 more game and it's not that unreasonable to think they could lose a second.

New England's remaining schedule: @ Miami (tough game), Houston at home (win), @ Jacksonville, and @ Tennessee to wrap up their schedule. 3 out of 4 road games to wrap up the season will make it difficult for the Patriots to move into one of the top two spots.

Of course, we have a very difficult match-up at Kansas City. After that, we're home against Cleveland, at Pittsburgh (this is going to be a dogfight, don't kid yourself), and then home against Buffalo.

Clearly, it hurt to lose the game on Thursday night. However, we can still set out to accomplish some great things if we can regroup and come out fired up against Kansas City next week.

[Irishraven]

Great post and very positive...I think if we take care of our own business which I believe we will, then we should at least take the 2nd seed :D

KC game will be very tough but I think we have enough to beat them

Browns, we are at home and we will be all over them

Pitt away, they are there for the taking but it will be a tough game and we will have to have hit Ben early and often

Finally, Buffalo at home should be ours also, again, it will not be easy but if last home game of reg season....crowd should be well fired up!!!

[Sports Steve]

As I watched those games yesterday I thought where we would this morning.
The good news it gives us a better chance to get the 2nd spot for the playoffs.


:jester: :jester:

[Mr.Boh]

I know we cant dwell on the past, and need to focus on winning our remaining games, but:

yeah that makes the loss on thursday harder b/c we would have been tied with the colts and Chargers for 1st place in the AFC and we would have the tie breaker against the chargers........
Actually we would be first seed at that point because Indy would have lost to a division rival while we had not (if we had beat cinccy twice)

[ravenwoman]

It was a blessing that the Colts and Chiefs lost. This gives us a second chance to capture the second seed, providing San Diego loses at some point.

I hope the Ravens realize that the vacation is over starting on Wednesday and every game going forward is a must win.

[Bez513]

The Ravens need to worry about themselves and let the chips fall as they may.

[camdenyard]

The Chiefs losing just makes it harder for them to make the playoffs. We can probably put them out on Sunday if we beat them.

I think it is going to be tough for us to get the 1st seed at this point unless the Colts really melt down (not impossible, though). They would need to lose 2 and we'd probably need to win out. I don't think the tiebreakers favor us vs. them.

[sailorsam]

I don't think anyone is going to win out. I really hope we can get the tiebreaker against the Pats. right now we 6-2 in AFC, they 5-3, so that's a possibility. If Balmer can take go 3-1 and the Pats go 2-2, it'll look good. Good chance either the Chargers or Colts will lose two.
at the beginning of the year I'da thunk 10-6 and a WC would be great. Getting greedy!!!

[Greg]

If we end up 13-3 we would have 2 conference losses. The Irsays have 1. If they lose to Cincy, for example, we would have the common opponents tie breaker having beaten Tennessee while they split and we would have split with Cincy who would have beaten them. I don't believe division record is a factor is playoff seeding. Conference record and common opponents would be the decider. If we tied with San Diego AND Indy our head to head win might now factor since Indy was also in the mix and thus we would have to consider their conference record and common opponents as well.

The best thing we can do is win and see what happens, in 2 weeks this will be a lot more clear.

[Gwaihir]

If we end up 13-3 we would have 2 conference losses. The Irsays have 1. If they lose to Cincy, for example, we would have the common opponents tie breaker having beaten Tennessee while they split and we would have split with Cincy who would have beaten them.


Except for the fact that they beat Denver in Week 8 !! We really needed them to lose that Buffalo game that they barely hung on to 4 weeks ago. I think we need them to lose against Jacksonville & Cincy, with the Ravens winning out, and of course another San Diego loss, to get the top seed.

[DisplacedRaven]

I gotta say all, it's just putting me in heaven reading all the "If this team loses, and this team wins" talk about trying to get a bye week. It's been too many years of "If this team loses and this team wins" talk just to get a wc spot.

[skaybaltimore]

We could have made life a lot easier on ourselves if we had been better prepared for the Cincy game, and/or if we had made the necessary adjustments during halftime. We came out flat, and stayed flat the whole game. It was there for the taking, and we tanked. That's the bottom line. Now all the coulda/shoulda/woulda in the world won't fix that. What a wasted golden opportunity. Now it remains to be seen whether or not we can rebound and get it back on track, or else begin a nasty little tailspin. I think we match up well against KC, but only if/when we bring a total package of O & D.

GO RAVENS!!!

[highwater]

Anything can happen of course, but looking at the schedules, I think it's a long shot to overtake the Colts. But taking the second seed is definitely doable.

In any event, I hope we go into the playoffs on a roll, and starting with a good showing in KC would be a great start. The sooner we get this Bengals game behind us, the better.

[Sports Steve]

I think the Ravens will play better then most think. The Borwns showed ways to beat the Chiefs. I know we are playing in KC's stadium don't think it will make a difference. The Borwns are going to get killed back at M&T Bank on the 17th of Dec.

:jester: :jester:

[AZRAVEN]

I just hope we have our "A" game on for KC. THey will be ticked off having lost to Cleveland. They may have taken the Browns to lightly, I don't know. I guess the only way to look at it is, the only thing we can do is control our own games ~ win them all and we are in good shape, screw around and lose any more and things get a bit muddier.

[Gabrosin]

I hope the extra days and the sting of failure in Cincy will have our team ready to beat the Chiefs. We have a pretty good matchup against them, but their home field advantage is significant and like Cincy, they will be desperate. A loss to us will almost end their season, since they still have a trip to San Diego. We will still go to the playoffs and likely win the division if we lose Sunday, but we'll basically forfeit all shot at a first-round bye, with the way Indy and San Diego have been playing. However, if we do beat them, it may set off just the domino effect we need, forcing them into a playoff atmosphere against the Chargers. If we beat KC and the Chargers lose to them, we'll have control of our playoff seed again, with the ability to lock up #2 by winning out.

That bye is going to mean an awful lot in the AFC, where no playoff game will be easy. If we can skip dealing with a challenge from the Bengals/Broncos/Jets/Chiefs/whoever in the first round, and only need two wins to make the Super Bowl, I like our chances a lot better.

[RAVENOUS52]

At the beginning of the season I had us winning 11 games tops.

I have since ammended that prognostication to 12 wins, with an outside chance at 13 wins and a first round bye.

I am by no means going to be upset if we don't reach that mark however.

Just qualifying for a home playoff game is enough for me.
That's the way we did it in 2000-2001 and if it was good enough for me then, it's good enough for me now.