Christmas Miracle Weekend Begins... [aka Week 16 & 17 Scoreboard Watching]

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You know to be able to wake up on the morning of our final regular season game and be able to say hey by the end of this day we could be a PLAYOFF team just feels so good to me right now. So proud of the team for today's performance. Now aside from that back to scenarios:

Week 17 - Starting 12 p (CST)

New England (10-5) @ Houston Texans (8-7)
Pittsburgh (8-7) @ Miami Dolphins (7-8)

Week 17 Starting 3:15p (CST)

Baltimore Ravens (8-7) @ Oakland Raiders (5-10)
Kansas City (3-12) @ Denver Broncos (8-7)

Week 17 Starting at 7:20 (CST)

Cincinnati Bengals (10-5) @ New York Jets (8-7)

Looking at this if the Houston Texans and Pittsburgh Steelers take care of business the pressure will be on the Baltimore Ravens and the Denver Broncos (and it pretty much already is anyway) but hopefully it will be a little more pressureful maybe so much so that hopefully it ends up being catastrophic for them. The Cincinnati Bengals by the start of their game will probably be playing out scenario after scenario over and over again based on the outcome of their game with the Jets. OUR GAME is so critical, mainly because if we don't win we're done, but also because if we can just somehow force the Bengals to have to play they may want to consider playing a team that has never been to the playoffs in us (although they probably do already know how dangerous we could be seeing as to how we have beaten them already) but also in a sense dictate what they believe would be their best way through the 2009/10 NFL Playoffs. They probably don't want anything to do with the Colts and since their affair with the San Diego Chargers ended with a valiant hard fought loss by a game winning field goal they may just believe their best shot in the NFL playoffs is by winning their initial game at home and then playing at San Diego rather than at Indy. All this being said I just hope they show up for this game and don't just pull a Jim Caldwell on us and rest their players and not care. The Jets shouldn't even deserve being in such a favorable position after not even realizing that they weren't yet eliminated from playoff contention. All this being said here's to hope guys.