This week is the first week I feel as if it's truly a MUST WIN game. Sure every week is important, but I haven't felt that we had to win to make the playoffs until now. To be fair though, I would think the same thing even if we'd won last week. Holding the tiebreaker in the division race is vital to our odds of winning the division. I've said for a few weeks that I don't think we will be in the running for any byes (even though we weren't mathematically eliminated), but now it's basically the division or no playoffs.
Yes we still have a shot at the wildcard, but I just don't see that coming for us this year. Hopefully it won't matter and we'll win this week, but a lot of that is riding on whether or not Wagner can come back from his hamstring injury.