After taking out a pair of powerhouses, I'm looking at the lineup of AFC teams and there are very few that actually scare me. Two outright - KC and BUF. Those 2 scare me, but they're both 1-1 already, they're both beatable teams.
There's another team that doesn't scare me, but I respect - CLE. But I'd put my money on us to win 3 out of 4 games against them, maybe better.
And we don't play BUF in the regular season.
So there's not much standing in between us and the playoffs. EVERY SINGLE team remaining on our schedule - with the exception of KC - is IMMINENTLY beatable by us.
We have a stretch after the Chargers of CHI/DEN/PHI/NYG that SHOULD be a 4-0 streak for us. In fact, we could EASILY go into our first game against KC at 7-1, with that one loss coming either to the Chargers or in a trap game like maybe DEN or PHI.
And I see us, as I said in the beginning, ending 10-7 or 11-6.