Three Way Tie Breaking Procedures?

[links18]

So Seattle controls its own destiny for the #1 seed?

 

[Fizziksman]

So Seattle controls its own destiny for the #1 seed?

yes and oddly enough our game is mostly irrelevant unless the Packers and Lions tie which i doubt happens, so there is no point in playing against the Commanders

 

[basilhayden]

OTHER TIE-BREAKING PROCEDURES

To determine home-field priority among division-titlists, apply Wild Card tie-breakers.

How come this doesn't apply to us if Seattle wins the division?
There can only be one division champ, therefore the first tiebreaker is head to head.

 

[blindzebra]

We get the #1 seed with a win, If Stl and SF win and GB and Det tie.

 

[links18]

Best case scenario looks like the #2 seed with DET winning the North and taking #1.

 

[links18]

We get the #1 seed with a win, If Stl and SF win and GB and Det tie.

Do we make strategy decisions based on the remote possibility of a tie?

 

[TrailBlazer]

We get the #1 seed with a win, If Stl and SF win and GB and Det tie.

Might as well ignore this scenario all together

 

[blindzebra]

Do we make strategy decisions based on the remote possibility of a tie?

Well we know GB and Det will get flexed to SNF. AZ and Seattle both have west coast games, so our game will be over before the rest even start.

 

[TheSkaven]

Do we make strategy decisions based on the remote possibility of a tie?

I was hoping we'd get Arizona in the first round but it's looking like it'll be the Lions then a trip up to Green Bay.

 

[links18]

Well we know GB and Det will get flexed to SNF. AZ and Seattle both have west coast games, so our game will be over before the rest even start.

So what you are saying is we have to play the starters?

BTW, I thought Cinci/PBG got flexed?

 

[Lazyking]

lets not play the starters hoping for a tie. I'd sit Romo and play Murray til he gets the rushing record.

 

[blindzebra]

So what you are saying is we have to play the starters?

BTW, I thought Cinci/PBG got flexed?

Lets just say I am torn. I understand the logic of sitting them, but don't like the message it sends. I recall the wishy-washy way Phillips handled it in 2007.

 

[links18]

Lets just say I am torn. I understand the logic of sitting them, but don't like the message it sends. I recall the wishy-washy way Phillips handled it in 2007.

Was there anything Phillips didn't handle wishy-washy?

 

[MathewSK81]

BTW, I thought Cinci/PBG got flexed?

It did

 

[loublue22]

we went and took care of our own business, and that's great

but we have gotten totally screwed by 5 one possession games involving the Cardinals, Lions and Packers, any ONE of which goes the other way and we are playing for a bye on Sunday

AZ wins vs KC (stolen by refs) and STL
DET wins vs MIN and CHI
GB LOSING to BUF, which forces a 3 way tie at 12-4, instead of a head to head with Seattle which we would obviously win

NOT TO MENTION, there is no way we can play Arizona in the first or second round, as it's impossible for them to get the 2 or the 6. Instead, the winner of the atrocious NFC South will get to host AZ and their 4th string QB, while we get Stafford and Megatron or even Aaron Rodgers and Co.

everything outside of our control has gone wrong, basically

 

[Lazyking]

I'm not scared of the lions. Stafford is not that good.

 

[TrailBlazer]

Well we know GB and Det will get flexed to SNF. AZ and Seattle both have west coast games, so our game will be over before the rest even start.

Either way. Seattle HAS to play their starters. Same with GB and det. We get to impose our own bye week. The only difference is our bye week is week 17 instead of week 1 in the playoffs.

 

[IAmLegend]

I get the rules but it stinks that we won in Seattle but will have to go there again to make the Super Bowl. Meanwhile Green Bay who lost to Seattle who we beat grabs the 2 seed.

Just peculiar how it played out. The moral is though if you're going to lose games do it outside your conference!

Yep. That's where that terrible loss at home to Washington comes back to bite us in the arse.

 

[links18]

we went and took care of our own business, and that's great

but we have gotten totally screwed by 5 one possession games involving the Cardinals, Lions and Packers, any ONE of which goes the other way and we are playing for a bye on Sunday

AZ wins vs KC (stolen by refs) and STL
DET wins vs MIN and CHI
GB LOSING to BUF, which forces a 3 way tie at 12-4, instead of a head to head with Seattle which we would obviously win

NOT TO MENTION, there is no way we can play Arizona in the first or second round, as it's impossible for them to get the 2 or the 6. Instead, the winner of the atrocious NFC South will get to host AZ and their 4th string QB, while we get Stafford and Megatron or even Aaron Rodgers and Co.

everything outside of our control has gone wrong, basically

So many permutations--people here were celebrating the GB loss to Buffalo last week. I still think we want Det winning the North....

 

[links18]

Yep. That's where that terrible loss at home to Washington comes back to bite us in the arse.

That loss was going to bite us one way or another...