Have we qualified for the playoffs already and no one knows it?

I can see penner's point if DAllas and Washington had a tiebreaker for the Division, but they don't.

We have a 3 way conference tie.

 

would be fun to have one of those "we need to put up 75 points on the Falcons to get into the playoffs" situations, and then actually pull it off.
Wait, then we'd actually have won the game so it wouldn't matter.

So yeah, otherwise we don't fucking deserve to get in.

 

almost seems like the Panthers will get in with a referee's ruling.

kind of ironic if it knocks the cowgirls out

 

I don't know, I could be just reading the rules wrong. I just don't see how the "1. Apply division tie breaker to eliminate all but the highest ranked club in each division prior to proceeding to step 2." would ever apply if all three teams were in different divisions, in which case it would not be such an important rule being at number 1.


Why would you eliminate the highest ranked club in each division to determine wildcards in any other situation than having two NFC East teams and the Panthers tied for 2 Wild Card spots? To me, this shows that in the worst case scenario, the Skins and the Cowboys would go head to head in elimination, which the Skins would win. This leaves the Panthers in by default.

 

If the tie breaker went first to the highest ranked team in each division then he might be on to something. If we lose we finish no lower than second in the NFC south. Assume the Giants win the NFC east and the cowgirls and skins both win then the Redskins finish second in the NFC east (they have the head to head on Dallas) and then Dallas finishes third in the NFC east. Since we finished second in our division and Dallas finished third in its division we go in ahead of them even though they have the head to head.

I am not sure that is the way it works but I think that is the logic behind it.

 

Here is the link to the rules page. I am starting to think DJ is right, we are already in the playoffs. A huge attaboy to him if he is right.

NFL tiebreakers

I wish we had a late game, if we knew we were in and Tampa had won the division we could rest our starters againt the dirty (read chop block) birds.

 

the way i read the rule its states that carolina would be in over dallas by virtue of finishing higher in their respective division.

washington would get in by virtue of finishing ahead of dallas in the nfc east
carolina would get in by virtue of finishing higher in the nfc south than dallas did in the nfc east

thus eliminating the highest ranked teams in their division
(eliminating them from having to advance to step 2)

this explains why the mention of division tie breaker before proceeding to step 2

 

I saw someone quote the rule on another board, and thought it was an interesting wrinkle. Then when I applied it to our situation it seemed to say we had already clinched, although it's such a rare situation to have two teams in the same division tied for the wildcard, especially with another team in the conference.

 

I'm pretty sure that the tiebreakers would get applied to each spot. First, for the 5th playoff spot, Washington over Dallas (#1 step for 3 teams tied) due to head to head and Wash beats us out by conference record. Then Dallas beats us for the 6th spot on head to head. That assumes we lose while both Wash. and Dallas win so all are 10-6.