[chiefs4me]

Originally Posted by Nightwish

All the write-ups I've seen say that for us to get into the playoffs, we need to beat Cincinatti (understood), Pittsburgh needs to lose to Detroit (understood, as we have tie-breaker by virtue of our win over New England), and Sandy Eggo needs to lose to Denver. That's the part I'm not quite sure if I understand. Since they're already mathematically eliminated, why does their performance against Denver matter? I understand that they do own a tie-breaker against us, further down the line, but they are eliminated at the top level by virtue of their head-to-head loss to Pittsburgh, so shouldn't they already be out of the mix by the time it got far enough down the list of catagories to where SD has the tie-breaker over the Chiefs? Or does it only work that way when all three teams in a 3-way tie are from the same division? Since Pittsburgh is not in our division, is the division tie-breaker decided first, and the emergent team from that tie-breaker pitted against the non-division tied team? Is that why SD must lose?

what?????