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Originally Posted by sandtrapjack
In order to get a wildcard, first and foremost....win out or one loss MIGHT do it. The Saints, Vikings and yes even the Bears are making strives and are entering December on a hot streak. Lions have a tough schedule but could still finish at 9-7. And don't look now, but here come the Eagles again.
You would have to hope for the Saints, Vikes, Bears and Eagles to stumble and fall in December while still taking care of business at home.
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Out of those four teams you mentioned, we still play two of them. So we do control our destiny there. The Eagles still have to go to Irving and Seattle. The Eagles do have the talent to finish up at 8-8 and force us to win 9 games, but thats about the extent to which they are a threat.
The final team, the Saints, are a bad football team. They can beat helpless teams such as Carolina and a QBless, DTless, Jacksonville squad, but they wouldn't beat us, they can't beat Tampa, and they still have to play Philly and Chicago. They aren't going 4-1 and frankly, are unlikely to sniff .500 this year.
So while technically we still need two losses from the Lions, 4-1 makes us a virtual certainty from the playoffs. If we take care of our business at home these next two weeks, it will set up a game with the Giants in which we can tie up the season series if Philadelphia can beat them at home. So three weeks from now, we can be sitting in 2nd place in the NFC East, and the only drastic thing that has to happen is that we have to beat the Giants on the road, a team who arguably, we are better than.