Last Chance Saloon

This is it.  Lose tomorrow and we're buried.  We may be buried anyway after last week's debacle, but a win vs Seattle will at least keep that slight glimmer of hope alive.  After all, we COULD beat Seattle.  We COULD then get Cutler back.  With #6 back under center, we COULD go into Green Bay and ruin the fudge Packers perfect season.  We COULD then get a win in week 17 in Minnesota propelling us into the playoffs.  We COULD then get Forte back.  Can you imagine the feeling in the locker room IF we got into the playoffs and had a healthy Cutler and Forte?  Shoot, we COULD win the Super Bowl!

Sure it's unlikely, but how likely was it that we'd:
1) Hold Oakland to FG's on SIX different drives, allowing just one TD and lose?
2) Give up a TD on a Hail Mary vs KC, allowing just 10 points total and still lose?
3) Shut out Teblow and company for 57 minutes and 54 seconds allowing a TD on a blown coverage with 2:06 remaining in the game*?
4) Recover an onside kick and then run out of bounds while trying to run out the clock?
5) Have a 59 yard field goal kicked against us to force overtime?
6) Win the toss in OT, go 3 and out, punt, actually stop the other team and get the ball back, march into field goal range and then fumble the ball?
7) Have a 51 yard field goal kicked against us in OT to lose?

Sorry for that painful trip down memory lane, but the point is that all of that happened against us in just 3 weeks.  Read them side by side and my earlier thoughts of what COULD happen don't seem so crazy.  But it can only start with a win tomorrow.  Lose tomorrow and we may as well start our draft preparations.

*I haven't heard anybody talk about it due to all the other madness that occured, but do you realize the significance of the Broncos scoring on that exact play?  Let's say that we don't allow a TD on that play.  Let's say they get to the 1 yard line and Teblow runs it in on the next play.  The time taken up would've taken the clock down to the 2-minute warning.  After that, when we recover the onside kick, we can take a knee 3 times and the game is over.  No need to run a play.  No chance for Barber to run out of bounds.  No chance for the Broncos to get the ball back.  None.  The game would be over.  Of all the plays to blow a coverage, we had to pick that one.  Seems fitting given how the rest of the game played out.  Anyway, let's hope for some semblance of an offense this week and a situation where mere inches and seconds can't burn us.