Here's something interesting: Assume the team with a higher winning percentage wins every matchup, add 2 Jets wins (against Indy and Cincy) and have Baltimore lose at Pittsburgh in week 16 and you have: sports.yahoo.com/nfl/playoffscenario? algorithm=custom&12=01101105&13=40501055&14=44104511&15=50000441&16=54001505 Jets @ NE If NE loses their two road games as well, Jets get the #3 seed.
we're on the outside looking in regardless, so the only options are to care what happens or not. the repercussion of caring is that sometimes your hopes get dashed. that's still better than being indifferent IMO. I'm just discussing the Jets winning the wild card. obviously the division is still attainable, but far less complex so there is no need to speculate what ifs.
I refuse to root for any division rival, ever. I don't care what is needed for us to make the playoffs, I don't care who the teams are, all I care about is the Jets winning. I want to see them take care of the teams in front of them. I'm not going to root for other teams to beat other teams, just so the Jets can get in the playoffs. They are not my team, I will not root for any other team, regardless of the scenario. It is simple.. The Jets put themselves in this situation, they made their bed, now they need to lay in it. They have an oppurtunity here to right the wrongs that have taken place this season. I am going to scratch things up to fate, we will see what happens. It would be nice for fate to be generious to the Jets, but that doesn't erase their own doings of their past this season. They should've taken care of bussiness prior to this wildcard race, now, we just gotta wait and see. I will never cheer on another team though, playoffs or not.
I will never get this. Here's a hypothetical for you to answer for me. Say its Week 17 and if the Jaguars lose we make the playoffs. You won't root for whatever team is playing Jaxonville that week? How does that make any sense.
its scary rooting for miami over jacksonville because miami has an easier schedule down the stretch than jax does. Miami goes titans, texans, steelers i believe and jax goes indy, new england, cleveland. I guess its kind of close. Jets win, thats what counts.
Looking at these schedules I think you have to root Jacksonville. Miami wins this game, they get on a fuckin' tear, they rip up those last three teams. Eh I don't know. I keep changing my damn mind.
I think it's the context of the word. Like I said, I will never, ever, root for another team to win. Never. If that was the hypothetical though, I would hope (not root) that it would play out so that the Jets could make the playoffs. Obviously I want to see my team in the playoffs, and I hope that it plays out to where they get that chance. I just refuse to root for other teams in this league, period. They are not my team. This team has put theirselves in this situation. Yes, there is a chance that we could make the playoffs, but that does not make it right to start cheering on other teams because the Jets couldn't show up previously in this season. I'm not ok with that.
The difference is that we only need the Phins to lose 1 and we need the Jags to lose 2. Also, who knows if Indy will still be playing for anything by the time they play the Jags. Hate to say it, but if you want to see the Jets in the playoffs, root for the Phins.
Here's what you do, people. "Go Jets!" "Boo Pats!" Anybody have an issue with that scenario? Ignore the mystique, Jets fans; these are not the Patriots of yesteryear. They haven't won ONE road game this season (New England, England- same difference); they've lost back-to-back games; they've given up two-score leads; they've made many, many errors (play-calling, penalties, execution). If you're chalking up an automatic three wins for the Pats, you're living in the past. Same ol' Jets fans tend to have that Same ol' Pats mentality: "they'll right the ship; they're the Patriots, fer chrissakes!" I see four teams that pose a significant threat to the Pats in the seasons final quarter. Carolina is probably the least likely to get that win, but if Moore can play only half as badly as Delhomme, they could nab the upset. At Buffalo? Does anyone here really believe, still, that divisional road games are write-offs? Especially when you're a team that CAN'T win in somebody else's stadium? Jacksonville could be making a strong push for the playoffs and they seem to be hitting their stride. And finally... Houston. Shoot-out. Moral Victory for the Texans in Houston sounds like a nice end to a season for a team that routinely only plays for pride in week 17. So there's the scenario. "Go Jets! Boo Pats!" The Jet Fan Way.
I think I'm going with Miami again, and for the same reason: Jacksonville has to lose more games to meet the Jets requirements for qualifying for a wildcard than Miami does to meet their requirements for a wildcard or division win. For at least another week the widest possible reductionism is the most favorable outcome for the Jets. That means the teams with whom the Jets are really competing need to be favored in terms of weaker chances over stronger chances - leveling the field as much as possible. There will come a point where we really want a team to break away in the wildcard chase but this is not the time yet. Miami could easily be eliminated from the 10-6 race in any of the next 4 weeks. Jacksonville, on the other hand, has a week 17 game against Cleveland and so we need to find the 2 losses before then from Miami, Indianapolis and Pittsburgh. Given the way Pittsburgh is playing I want Miami to hang a loss on the Jaguars this weekend.
It depends. We need Jax to lose 2 for a WC opportunity. We need the Pats to lose 2 and mia to lose 1 for the AFC East opportunity. Who you root for in mia v. jax therefore depends on what you think the pats will do. If you think the pats will shit the bed despite their cupcake schedule, then you should root for jax to stomp miami so that the Jets chances for winning the AFC East are improved. i think the pats schedule is too easy to see them drop 2 although that would be ideal. So at this point I'll root for mia to beat jax. The truth is that its a nice thing to discuss, but the entire NFL community and especially Jets fans would be shocked if the Jets ran the table. But stranger things have happened so I will root for mia. If NE shits the bed against the pants then we re-assess.
i am rooting for my jets. i got lots of money riding on this game too. i stand to win 400 if all goes wel.
I can't see the Patriots losing 3 in a row and against a weak Panthers team that we grossly outplayed but anything is possible
We ofcourse need to root for ourselves, but if we win which i hope and think we would then i would root for the phins again (Unfortunetely) because the jags are currently 7-5 and a loss would drop them to what we could be 7-6.
agreed.. i think that is retarded.. sorry dean.. but your logic makes no sense. By rooting for a random team, to beat a team that can potentially take our spot in the playoffs.. is basically rooting for the Jets.. like tonight i rooted for GB.. am i a GB fan... not at all.. i basically have no interest with them outside of Rogers being my fantasy QB.. but since the ravens are a potential threat in the WC race.. i cheered my ass off when AJ Hawk got that pick.. ALMOST as much as when Revis ended the game last week on a pick.. I root for the Jets to get into the playoffs.. unfortunately, we have put ourselves in a position that require other teams to lose. All that really translates into is making more AFC games more interesting..
yep..and three 7-6 teams.. is better than an 8-5 ahead of us and a 6-7 behind us.. BUT i do have to say.. JAX still has the Pats AND the Colts.. so not all is lost if miami loses.. technically, if miami drops this they go to 6-7 and jax goes to 8-5. Then Jax loses to NE and IND and then they drop to 8-7.. and then say they beat cleveland and end the season 8-8.. hmm... if we beat TB, ATL, and CIN,(and lose to colts) we go to 9-7 and top the Jags AND Miami, since there is a decent chance they drop one to either titans, houston, or pitt.. the more i think about it.. the more i wanna say that JAX winning might fair better.. cause if miami wins.. they need to drop two between the last three games.. or we need to beat the colts.. yeah fuck it.. JAX this week.. and then hope NE and IND get it done.. now we just have to hope BAL and PIT keep sucking.. at least until PIT plays MIA that is.. this is stupid.. i can't believe I'm puttin this much effort into this shit.. hopefully this doesn't turn out to be a waste of time.. *knocks on wood*..
I am rooting for the Jags because they have the tougher schedule after this weekend. I just read the posts above, I forgot, we need the Jags to lose twice. Ugghhhh
I think we are doomed to be honest =\ I believe now the best way to get in is to win this division. Pray to god Buffalo can beat the Pats.
