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IND wraps up their division title with a win OR a Denver win over TN this week, I don't see TN winning @ Denver, so my money says IND wraps up their division this week.
@ Cin, Hou, @ KC, Jax --- rather tough road to close out for the Colts. I could see IND going 2-2 down that stretch.
Bengals have IND, @ PIT, MIN, BAL ... 3 home games and should go 2-2, likely 3-1.
That's why I have CIN as the #3 and IND as the #4.
KC is all but locked into the #5 slot at this point. They need a collapse from Denver down the stretch to overtake them for the division title and there's no way they fall to the #6 seed.
Denver has TN, SD, @ HOU, @ OAK... honestly, Denver will be favored in all 4 and should win all 4 barring injury. The game @ HOU could pose some challenges, but they're just not playing well. And, @ OAK to close out the year.. I just don't see a slip up there.
Denver has to keep the foot on the pedal to avoid losing the #1 seed to the Patriots. The #1 seed assures nothing, but they want to stay in Denver if at all possible.
I think the Chiefs can beat IND in KC and likely sets up a rematch in the WC round... I don't think that IND with their team as it is can win at KC, but they'll have their spot locked by that time and considering the very likely possibility of hosting KC in the playoffs, I could see them being very generic in a game that likely means very little.
I would imagine they'd save whatever they can for the playoff game vs KC which is very likely what will happen.
And, if that's the case with Denver as the #1 and then KC (5) defeats IND (4).... I don't see the 6 seed beating CIN at CIN, doesn't matter which team really. In that scenario, we'll get Broncos/Chiefs III.
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