The near guarantee for, at the minimum, a first round bye (1 Viewer)

[Saint Kamara]

What we need is for the Niners, Seahawks, and Packers to lose @ least 1 more game. Then, we can afford a loss, except if we lose to the Niners. They need to lose their division, most likely.

Correct

Packers lose to the Vikings, Seahawks lose to the Rams and then beat the 49ers allows us to lose this weekend.

 

[BBarnes]

Well then you haven't been paying close enough attention to what has happened to that team since Tannehill took over.

SF at home and Titans on the road are difficult games 1 and 1A.

And it's now essentially guaranteed that the Titans will still be fighting for their playoff lives by the time we play them.

Unless they screw around and lose to Oakland in which they would be pretty much eliminated. They’re solid team, nothing more than that

 

[SigFreudianSlip]

Agree.

Thankfully, if we win this weekend, can afford a loss to Indy or Tennessee (assuming Seattle doesn’t finish 14-2, which is a pretty safe assumption).

We’d have the strength of victory tiebreaker over all the teams we didn’t already beat H2H.

Spot on. We beat the Niners and we have a great shot to get the number 1 seed. AFC loss wouldn’t hurt us as much. Niners beat us you can forget about the 1. Also, Titans have always played is tough, and honestly I can’t remember the last time we’ve beaten them.