Need Three Wins

It was a big deal for the Chargers to beat the Broncos 27-20 in Thursday Night Football. If the season ended today, the Pats would have the number one seed in the AFC and home field advantage, including the AFC Championship game.

This is great news for fans, but a little premature with three games left to play. They still need to keep their bye as well as win their playoff game to make it to the AFC finals. A lot can happen between now and then.

Talk shows will be jumping on this and beating it to death with all sorts of playoff scenarios. It makes for interesting conversation, but you can only take so much. The Pats need to beat the Dolphins on Sunday and then finish the season with wins over the Ravens and Bills.

Given the amount of injuries suffered by the Pats, they have their work cut out for them.