Late night bullshit: the AFC West is a combined 17-10.
 

If you remove San Diego's 3-4 record, the AFCW is a combined 14-6.

That is a tough, tough division.

If the playoffs were held today, here's the AFC:

1-bye: Patriots (6-1)
2-bye: Raiders (5-2)
3: Texans/Steelers (4-3)
4: Texans/Steelers (4-3)
5: Broncos (5-2)
6: Chiefs (4-2)

Who are the second best teams in each division? The Bills. The Colts. The Bengals.

It's very realistic the AFCW gets three teams in the playoffs this year.

Don't like...at Pittsburgh & then at New England? No thanks!




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If this team wins the games it should, I am confident in Reid and his staff to be able to get a coaching edge on division rivals. 5-1 and even 4-2 against AFC West opponents might be enough to win the division and challenge for a top 2 seed. I don't think any team would want to travel to Arrowhead in January.

Key games along the way include @ Indy this week, @ Atlanta, @Carolina, and of course the remaining division games. A split with Denver is a must, and handing the Raiders another loss would be huge for the team's fortunes.

Here is to a full recovery for Houston and Charles. Hopefully this team can be relatively healthy for when it counts - I just hope the status quo can holdover long enough in the meantime to accumulate wins against what are perceived as lesser opponents.

Denver will be fighting for the 6 in the end

Wow. I remember always hearing a few years back how insignificant the AFC West was (from a Patriots fan), but this is wild.

It's definitely a possibility, and I do think the AFCW match-ups will be split. It's all about the remaining division/conference games.

OAK (1-1 Div, 4-1 Conf) - HOU, BUF, IND

DEN (0-1 Div, 3-1 Conf) - @ JAX, @ TEN, NEP

KC (2-0 Div, 3-2 Conf) - @IND, JAX, TEN

SD (1-2 Div, 2-3 Conf) - TEN, MIA, @ HOU, @ CLE

Definitely shaping up to be a wild race. I think SD will play spoiler to someone this year in the West. That seems to be a must win game for KC, Den, Oak.

Let's not all start sucking each other off just yet boys. It's a long season.

The West is strong, but I'm skeptical about 3 teams making it exactly because top to bottom all the teams are capable of beating one another.

Supposedly the Chargers have the easiest schedule from here on out. Don't count us out.

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It is a long season... and there are 7 of 16 AFC teams 'over' .500, with 3 of them sitting in the AFCW. That's what makes the AFC records so important right now, esp when you figure the AFCW teams are likely going to split their matchups.

OAK next 3 = @ Tampa, Denver, Houston
DEN next 3 = Chargers, @ Oakland, @ Saints
KC next 3 = @ Colts, Jags, @ Panthers
SD next 3 = @ Broncos, Titans, Dolphins

SD, sitting at 3-4 has the most ground to lose within the conference at this point, but 2 of those are in SD.

Den needs to avenge the SD loss from 2 weeks ago, win at home and then they have a tall order in the next two road trips.

KC has a nice schedule when you look at records, but those are still two tough road games. I expect them to beat the Jags handily at home, question is can they win those road games (1-2 on the road).

OAK has a nice schedule, as they could very well go 3-0.

^^

3 aint happening.

@ Denver, Titans, Dolphins
bye
@ Houston, Tampa, @ Panthers
Raiders, @ Browns, Chiefs

Chargers have given up more than 26 points in 5 of 7 games, and the 3rd worst PA in the AFC this year.

So, I guess it depends on how 'easiest' is defined.

And, the Chargers are losing this weekend... Broncos 27 / Chargers 23

Chiefs at Indy is a must win game then.



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I'm hoping to be able to see the Denver vs Oakland game. Should be a great game.


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The Chargers could so so easily be 6-1 or 7-0 right now if they didn't choke incredibly hard in 4th quarters.

Pat Kirwin seems to think the AFC West is for real!

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Hmm...

week 1, up 21-3 @ KC, score 6 in 2nd half and lose to a nice rally

week 3, tied at 13 at the half - trail in the 4th, kick a FG to go up 2, lose on a TD pass with 90 seconds left

week 4, up 24-15 at half, give up 2 late TDs under 5 minutes to Saints.

week 5, up 10-9 at half, down at start of 4th, get a TD to still lose by 3.

Hell, last week... they were incredibly lucky in OT that Falcons decided to go for it on 4th at midfield. Who does that ... then? So stupid.

They're a weird team, but I wouldn't say they were a few plays from being undefeated. They gave up huge leads to both KC and the Saints, good teams don't do that, those are things that come back to haunt you more often than not.

AFC West will cannibalize itself towards the end.


Good teams but no great teams

Chargers had the best draft in the league so far. Their class has been awesome.

NFC East is 17-9 would be odd if two divisions ended up with 6 spots in the playoffs.

Going from Manti Te'o to rookie Jatavis Brown has been a huge upgrade.

LMAO

We're talking about the Andy Reid that wastes timeouts, loses challenges like it's his job and generally ****s up at the most important moment - right?

I don't think Reid out coaching del Rio, Mccoy or Kubiak is that far fetched is it?

I don't think him being a dumbass along with those three is really far fetched.

Is it?

Not like we don't have 3+ years of evidence to point to.

He's 5 and 2 against the chargers, 6 and 1 vs the chargers, but 1 and 5 vs yhe broncos.

Reid also has like 15 years of evidence to go on

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Actually, Andy is fine on challenges. Clock management is shit, though.

We're gonna smack the ever living shit out of you this weekend.

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Check it out everyone, how cute is this?
Charger smack.

Lets as Philly fan about his experience in Philly.... Or the countless articles over the last couple of decades repeating the same crap that we see on Sundays with him being in Red and Gold...

He isnt going to change to get a "one" up on anyone...

See: wasted timeouts, goal to go offense, ending of Patriots game, etc....

I just want to make sure we are talking about the same Andy Reid...

Of course he's not gonna change, he has flaws, just like every coach ever.

But he's still a pretty good and successful head coach.

Absolutely he is.. He is perfect safe kinda coach for KC...

Its very easy to keep your team expectations in check with Reid.

Well, up to this point he's averaged 10 wins in the 3 years he's been here, for a franchise that hadn't had that kind of success in a couple decades.

I'd say he's got expectations fairly high here

So, what kind of coach would you rather have here?

I think it's going to end up more like this at the end...

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Expectations were really high with Marty as well...

You know that one kind...

Donkos are going to miss CJ Anderson. Since he is out for the season their chances have been diminished

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Except that their young backup has looked better than Anderson from what I've seen. Might actually be improvement by attrition. Hopefully not.

That was a piece of cake for us last year.