Did both teams lose?

[Servant of Cthululelei]

I wonder how often that happens?  I don't really keep up with who gets in by how much. 

 

I'm still confused how a tie might benefit us here, can someone lay out a plausible scenario?

 

It happened to the Packers just last year.

[fieryprophet]

After further review, a tie is perfectly fine and here is why. We would be in the same EXACT situation in the NFCS had we won or tied. A tie puts us at 3-2-1, the Bucs are 1-4, Saints 2-3 and Falcons 2-4. What does that mean?! It means we are still up 2 games in the division and it means if the worst case scenario next week happens which is us losing and the Saints winning still keeps up at the top of the NFCs because we win conference wins tiebreaker over the Saints since we are 3-0 in the NFC.

Also keep in mind, if we finish 8-7-1 and say the Saints or Falcons go 8-8, we still win the NFCS because they would have one more loss than us and by default we win the division. Even better, say we go 9-6-1 and either the Falcons or Saints goes 9-7, we still win the NFCS by default because we would have less losses.

So if we went 4-2 today we would still be in the same exact position, up 2 games in the NFCs and worst case scenario next week has us still on top of the NFCs. In essence us tying today puts in the same exact position as if we where 4-2, we are all just upset is more mental than anything but in reality, a tie would have put us in the same exact position in thr NFCs had we won

 

Wait, wait, logical reactions are not allowed on this board.

[KendrickPanther]

Well it will make the scenarios much easier to understand at the end of the season.

[ThinkAboutIt]

Neither team "won." The opposite of winning is actually "not winning," not "losing." Neither team won or lost.

[Snake]

Sorry but no one else in our div is going to win or tie the Bengals. They are legit as they get and I rather tie than lose like SEA did to Dallas...

[ThinkAboutIt]

Sorry but no one else in our div is going to win or tie the Bengals. They are legit as they get and I rather tie than lose like SEA did to Dallas...

 

Which is why the Panthers should be even more pissed off that they gave away the win. Should've never been in overtime to begin with, then they blew a promising first drive by settling for a field goal before the 3rd down play was even called. 

[AdamL]

Panthers won, Bungals lost but it ended in a tie

[jasonluckydog]

say if we tie again we should get at W.

 

.5 +.5 = 1 Win

 

[Salvo]

This probably hurt the Bengals more than it did us. They're in a more competitive division.

[stankowalski]

Say the Saints go 10-6 and we go 10-5-1.  We are automatically ahead of them for the divisional crown by half a game.  It eliminates the winner of the division coming down to tie-breaker scenario (e.g: both teams are tied at 10-6, tie breaker would be  head-to-head, divisional record, then conference record, etc etc).

 

Ok then, that makes me feel a bit better if true.  I thought only wins mattered at the end.

 

[KendrickPanther]

say if we tie again we should get at W.

 

.5 +.5 = 1 Win

 

But we also get an L.

 

 

We won't know if this is a good result until it gets us in the playoffs. Or costs us a playoff spot.

 

But that game wore our team out and we have a tough game next week now.

[TheMaulClaw]

I wonder how often that happens?  I don't really keep up with who gets in by how much. 

 

I'm still confused how a tie might benefit us here, can someone lay out a plausible scenario?

 

No problem.  We're still above .500.

[TheMaulClaw]

This probably hurt the Bengals more than it did us. They're in a more competitive division.

 

Yeah I have a feeling this tie helps us and hurts them.

[teeray]

Or we both won. Glass half full man