At this level it is vitally easy for the Buffalo Payments. So long as they hold profitable, they are going to make the playoffs and have a possibility to truly win the AFC East.
They completed the primary a part of that on Saturday night time by sneaking by the Los Angeles Chargers, 24-22, to safe an enormous win within the AFC playoff race.
It definitely wasn’t straightforward. The Payments allowed an eight-point result in slip away within the fourth quarter and located themselves trailing with lower than 5 minutes to play in regulation.
However due to some huge stops by their protection to restrict the Chargers to area targets as an alternative of touchdowns, they had been in a position to give quarterback Josh Allen a possibility to engineer a game-winning drive.
That’s precisely what he did, main them down contained in the Chargers 10-yard line to arrange Tyler Bass for a game-winning area objective with below 30 seconds to play.
As sloppy because the win might need been, the Payments will not be in any place to apologize for the way they win. Model factors don’t matter, and the Payments completed their goal. Win.
That win, mixed with the Cincinnati Bengals loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers earlier within the day on Saturday, retains the Payments in full management of their playoff future.
So long as they win their subsequent two video games — in opposition to New England at residence and at Miami in Week 18 — they are going to make the playoffs.
In addition they have a really actual shot to win the AFC East.
If Miami loses one among its subsequent two video games (in opposition to Dallas and Baltimore — so it’s fully potential) and the Payments beat New England subsequent week it might arrange a winner-take-all Week 18 recreation in Miami for the division.
The winner of that recreation wouldn’t solely win the division, but in addition get an especially essential residence recreation to open the playoffs. That may be a huge change from the place the Payments had been three weeks in the past once they had been 7-6 and trying to be an extended shot to even make the playoffs in any respect.