Just looked at the tie breaker standings. If San Fran continues to free fall we have no shot at getting the wild card. We're currently tied with Detroit and Seattle but they each have a 6-2 conference record. We have a 5-4 conference record and we play Philly again. I don't see us getting the wild card unless we finish with a better record than one of those teams.
It's like who do you root for next Sunday(SEA @ PHI) if we win on Thursday in Chicago.
If Seattle wins they still remain ahead of us but we would be tied with Philly but they hold the tiebreaker edge and we would have a chance to control the division with a win in Philly the next week
OR
If Philly wins then we have a full game lead on Seattle but are still one game behind Philly in the division and even if we beat Philly they still hold the tiebreaker over us.
I'm sort of leaning towards wanting Philly to win because if we win the following week @PHI we will be is tied with Philly with 2 games remaining for each team and still be a game up on SEA. If we lose @PHI then the worst will be is still tied with SEA assuming they win at home against SAN FRAN. I just want to stay in front of SEA at this point because the likelihood of us and them being the only teams with identical records for the wild card is probably slim. DAL, SEA, DET remaining schedules :
DAL remaining schedule:
@ CHI
@ PHI
IND
@ WAS
SEA remaining schedule:
@ PHI
SF
@ ARI
STL
DET remaining schedule:
TB
MIN
@ CHI
@ GB
For us to get in as a wild card, we need to go 3-1 or better while Seattle/Detroit goes 2-2 or worse and we would be in over both of them.
As for the division:
DAL remaining schedule:
@ CHI
@ PHI
IND
@ WAS
PHI remaining schedule
SEA
DAL
@ WAS
@ NYG
We pretty much are going to have to win out to have any hope of winning the division IMO. 3-1 could get it done but Philly would have to go 2-2 or worse with both losses or more coming in the division.
There's obviously still a lot of football left but we are going to have to get hot again to get into the playoffs. Going 2-2 or worse to go 10-6 will not get it done. We control what do from here on out. There won't be any backing in to get into the playoffs we have to win at least 3 out of the last 4 now. Winning at Chicago would be a good start.