Week 13 - Teams We Want To Win/Lose To Advance

[Duckus]

Got to hope SEA lays an egg agsinst @ BUF and lose to SF at home.

[MustangSteve]

They are on paper. But we usually fold.

But if things keep going the way they are, we would hold the 6 seed until you guys play tomorrow. Then if you win, youre 6 and were 7. Pretty awesome either way!!!

And there is a lot of football left to play, every team in right now could fall out and new teams could be in. This is the closest race I think I have ever seen. I'm just happy that my Redskins are finally a part of this, it has really sucked finishing at the bottom and being out of the playoffs by week 8 for so many years lol.

[SnyderShrugged]

It;s pretty mind spinning to consider all of the variables for playoffs. To me, no matter what happens, this has been a fun season.

[GhostofSparta]

What is the first tiebreaker if Skins/hawks both finish 9-7?

http://www.nfl.com/standings/tiebreakingprocedures

If it is necessary to break ties to determine the two Wild-Card clubs from each conference, the following steps will be taken.

If the tied clubs are from the same division, apply division tie breaker.
If the tied clubs are from different divisions, apply the following steps.

Two Clubs

Head-to-head, if applicable. (N/A, they didn't play)
Best won-lost-tied percentage in games played within the conference. (Right now Skins 5-4, Seattle 5-4)
Best won-lost-tied percentage in common games, minimum of four. (St. Louis, Dallas, Carolina, Minnesota: Skins 2-2, Seattle 3-1 so far. Skins have a game against Dallas and Seattle against St. Louis to go)
Strength of victory.
Strength of schedule.
Best combined ranking among conference teams in points scored and points allowed.
Best combined ranking among all teams in points scored and points allowed.
Best net points in conference games.
Best net points in all games.
Best net touchdowns in all games.
Coin toss.

I don't care to delve into the rest right now, because there's too much of the season left. But we need a better conference record, which we should have if we want to get to 9 wins.

[playoffsplz]

I wanna say Record between common opponents, i.e. teams we have both played.

Basically we have to win all of our division games. I don't believe we can lose any division game and get in.

[WheresRickySanders83]

It's weird how we're all focused on the WC now, when we were all focused on the division last week. If the Skins win tomorrow, they will have a legit shot to win the NFCE at 9-7, esp. if the one loss is against the AFC North. Giants have to play the Saints and road games @Baltimore and @ATL.

[Leonard Washington]

LOL that the last tie breaker is a coin toss.

[playoffsplz]

I'm not sure if Seattle losing to Buffalo would help us much. They need to lose conference games, and like us, have 3 division games left.

[deejaydana]

Seattle is not a team to bank on losing @ home. They're one of the toughest outs when they're playing at Safeco so we can't bank on them losing there. They DO however have the Niners once and the Bills on the road. They're schedule is definitely softer than ours the rest of this season. 3 of their last 4 are at home so I'd say we aren't going to catch them, they are a much more balanced team than we are at the moment.

[AzSkinsFan63]

The Seahawks win should light a fire under the Skins butts...

Beat the Giants to stay in the hunt of a WC and the division. A loss and a WC is the only real shot and even that would be real slim.

Just win Monday night!!!!!

[benskins26]

LOL that the last tie breaker is a coin toss.

Especially after all the other scenarios- like you're gonna ever make it to that point

[MustangSteve]

Got to hope SEA lays an egg agsinst @ BUF and lose to SF at home.

What we really need to hope for is the Redskins to just earn it and beat down NY and the remaining 4 teams in their way. Enter the Playoffs as "Division Champs" and on a winning streak. If they continue playing like they have the last 2 weeks, that will be possible.

---------- Post added December-2nd-2012 at 05:13 PM ----------

The Seahawks win should light a fire under the Skins butts...

Beat the Giants to stay in the hunt of a WC and the division. A loss and a WC is the only real shot and even that would be real slim.

Just win Monday night!!!!!

Yesss!!! Lets just take over this Division and lite up every ass that's in our way from here on out. Damn it we can do this!

[GoSkins561]

So here is how I'm seeing it, Redskins get to 9-7, and the Seahawks lose one of their games, we are in, is that correct?

[DogofWar1]

We needed Seattle, Tampa Bay, Cowboys, Vikings, and Saints to lose this week. Vikings and Saints lost, Seattle won, and we're still waiting on Tampa and Cowboys.

Interestingly, St. Louis is clawing their way back into the wildcard race. They're 5-6, own the tiebreaker on us, and play Tampa, Seattle, and Minn. Ideally, they'll knock off Seattle or Tampa, (Minn is at 6 losses and we own the tiebreaker, hopefully they drop another on their own), and lose another couple. That Buffalo game they have will be huge, if they drop that, and one more, then win 2 more, they could help us a lot, but they have to lose two more first.

NO is officially out, their best hope is 9-7 and we own the tiebreaker there. Minn is one loss away from the same spot.

Seattle is scaring me. At 7-5, we need them to drop 2 of their remaining four games, but they've got the Cardinals, Buffalo, San Fran again, and St. Louis. They probably drop one, but two, among that group, is going to be tough to see.

The race is rapidly approaching a point where we need to go perfectly 5-0 to have a shot. Not that it was ever any other way. We need to crush the midgets tomorrow now more than ever.

[Barefoot Kicker]

So here is how I'm seeing it, Redskins get to 9-7, and the Seahawks lose one of their games, we are in, is that correct?

they only have 5 loses. right now, we have 6 loses. if we lose one more and get to 9-7, then Seattle would need to lose 2 of their last 4 games. We need to win out and HOPE they lose one more to have a shot.