Tiebreakers At Their Finest

So I was checking what today's pathetic loss means for the Browns' playoff hopes. I was quite confused, on many levels, when I saw this:

You know what else is simple? The uses of "their" and "they're".

Anyway, beyond the grammar, at first this didn't make sense to me. After all, the Browns have another game left as well. Is it possible that Cleveland's Week 17 game doesn't matter? Apparently so:

This goes beyond no longer controlling their own destiny. The Browns no longer have any effect on their own destiny. I was trying to figure out the tiebreakers, and failing miserably, until I found this. Here's how it breaks down:

TEN wins, CLE loses: Titans are 10-6, Browns 9-7. Tennessee is in.

TEN wins, CLE wins: Both are 10-6. The first tiebreaker is head-to-head, but they haven't played. Second is W-L % in AFC games. The Titans play the Colts, if they win that they'll be 7-5 in the conference. The Browns play the 49ers, and are currently 7-5 in the conference, so that's another tie. Third tiebreaker is W-L % in common games. Both teams have played the Texans, Raiders, Bengals and Jets. The Browns are 3-2 in those games; Titans are 4-1. Tennessee is in.

TEN loses, CLE wins: Titans are 9-7, Browns are 10-6. Cleveland is in.

TEN loses, CLE loses: Both are 9-7. First tiebreaker is still useless. But now, since the Titans lost to the Colts, they are 6-6 in AFC games, while the Browns are 7-5. Cleveland is in.

Got all that? In both situations where Tennessee wins, they are in. If the Titans lose, the Browns are in. So how does Romeo get the Browns hyped up for their game? There is one scenario in which Cleveland's game matters- if the Titans-Colts game ends in a tie.