I noticed that too.
Even if we were 2nd in our division at 6-4 we would still be VERY entrenched in the wild card race.
We can beat the jets, and I can see us doing the sweep of the NFC South.
If our defense keeps improving, and our running game improves too (I like our back field now and womnder how Selvin even fits in now?) we can beat a LOT of teams.
Great post mate!

I haven’t even considered seeing a first round bye. lmao I forget that Indianapolis won’t be a threat for that other spot, so we only really have to worry about Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Jets, and Patriots…if we beat the Jets we would still have to contend with the Patriots there since they beat us and also the Ravens and Steelers could go either way…I still wonder if we have too difficult of a schedule ahead of us to worry about that first round bye. Let’s head in Carolina on a 5 game winning streak…then we’ll talk first round bye. :D

We need to focus on one game at the time, but they are far different in make up and character from the pretenders we saw play at Kansas.
This team has a different look and feel.
Just my opinion, but NO way would the team that showed up on the weekend would have lost to Kansas or Jacksonville.

Jets play the Titans this weekend.

Take care of business and beat Oakland, we may be up 3 games in the division and tied with the Jets for the 3rd seed.

Its funny but I was looking at the same thing today and wondering how all of that may pan out. Now that you posted, perhaps some of you all will give us some educated guesses.

however I want to get the division officially locked up and then I’ll think about who will be getting the byes.

And don’t opologize for great optimism—it drives Guru crazy—and that is fun too!

I’m not prepared to think about that right now however.

Right now they’re playing down to their abilities. rivers is making strange mistakes, seems to be coming kind of unraveled. Still happy and loose on camera, but screwing up on the field. No TD’s for him this weekend. Still losing games in the final series, ala Pittsburgh, Carlina, us, etc.

Their D played better this week, but some of that was a struggling Pitt QB and a crappy field. No matter what, I’m not sure but what zappa was right all along – they’re unravelling, past their prime and falling. Might well be.

The Chargers schedule looks like this

Vs Indy – Good game. Manning has been playing well lately and Indy is looking more like their old selves.

vs Atl – Should be another good game. You better believe that Michael Turner is gonna come strong

vs Oakland – …..whatever, you never know…..

@ KC – ……see Oakland comment…..

@Tampa – a good, smash-mouth football team. They show the type of grit and physicality SD has always struggled against. Also an East Coast game.

vs. Denver – SD will be coming back from Florida after playing a physical game.

There is a strong chance that we win the AFC west. That’s enough for me. I’m not sure I want the wild-card bye. Gun Young made a valid point about that.

I wrote my post (Denver in the Driver’s Seat) yesterday afternoon, and scheduled it for tonight (though Guru moved it up to 11:00am). We must have been writing at about the same time, and half a world away, but we have both grasped that, despite Denver’s shaky start, they could possibly be as high as a 2nd seed by the time the playoffs roll around. A first round bye isn’t out of the question.

Mine was a late nighter and I cringed the next morning with some of the grammar. However I appreciate the words almost as much as I enjoyed reading your post this morning and actually doing it properly!!!

This article:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/dom_bonvissuto/11/18/playoff.projections/index.html
is projecting Denver to go 5-1 from here and end up with the No. 2 seed.

Finally getting some recognition after weeks of reading how SD were still going to take out the AFC west, it was only a matter of time, blah, blah, blah.

P.S. Great to see some fellow true blue Broncos fans from down under!