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Originally Posted by The Dude (Post 783903)

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Tampa almost beat Atlanta last week. It could happen.
I’m not convinced we can go beat Tampa if we have to. We aren’t safe. Yet.
Honestly if we don’t beat Atlanta at home we have no business in the playoffs.

That may be true, but can they beat us three times in five weeks, even at home? Any other time, no. They probably could this time because of us having a road division game before that. That's one reason why I don't think Atlanta beats us because they just went to TB and are playing us on five days rest on a back to back road game and twice in three weeks. The last time a team won twice in three weeks furthermore was in 2014 when Seattle beat SF. Three teams that were all much superior did it in 2013 with the exception being us against Carolina.

So if Atlanta can pull that off against us this week then I give us a fighting chance to pull it off too.

If we are good enough to beat Carolina in January a third time, I don't think it hinders us too much to play them on the road. What really is troubling is Green Bay couldn't beat Carolina and if they did this situation would have been a lot different. That's why I wished we had beaten the rams.