TBWI: What if Saxony takes Bohemia a century early?

What if Saxony managed to take control of Bohemia during the 30 Years War instead of during the War of Imperial Succession? As it was, Saxony began a program of Germanization in Bohemia following the House of Wettin's defeat in the War of Imperial Succession, AKA, the war that the Wettins lost but Saxony won. Could the Wettins have integrated Bohemia into their country enough that they could take it, and Poland, and the Imperial crown? With a protestant Bohemia could the Wettins still waffle on Catholicism enough that they could take the Polish crown as-per OTL? And would they then have the strength to fully capitalize on the extinction of the Austrian Hapsburgs, or would all of Europe sans France still turn on them and install one of Charles III of Spain's sons on the Imperial throne? Would integrating Bohemia during the 30 Years' War cause them to have to be so unabashedly Protestant that the Poles and the HRE wouldn't accept them?

OOC: bonus points to the one who can spot the POD
 
I think it's "DBWI" not with a "T," unless you're somehow mistaken about OTL history.
OOC: Triple-blind What if: asking a question about an event that happened as it did in OTL because it happened before the POD. In this case, TTL and OTL diverged some time after the Thirty Years' War
 
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