Week 16 NFL Playoff Scenarios
The National Football League's 2010 season is winding down and as the season winds down, games take on added urgency. The teams meant to stick around for the postseason will begin their playoff run today. Teams like the Indianapolis Colts, while controlling their own destiny, could still be one loss away from missing the playoffs entirely. As of this week, the Patriots and Steelers are the only teams in the AFC to clinch a playoff spot.
While muddled in terms of seeding, the rest of the playoffs could literally fall into place this weekend.
Here's the playoff scenarios broken down by the NFL
The New England Patriots can clinch the AFC East AND Homefield Advantage with:
- A win over the Buffalo Bills OR
- A New York Jets loss to the Chicago Bears
The Pittsburgh Steelers can clinch the AFC North and a first-round bye with:
- A win over the Carolina Panthers AND
- A Baltimore Ravens loss to the Cleveland Browns
The Kansas City Chiefs can clinch the AFC West with:
- A win over the Tennessee Titans and a San Diego loss or tie OR
- A Kansas City tie and a San Diego loss
The Baltimore Ravens can clinch a playoff spot with:
- A win over the Cleveland Browns OR
- Kansas City loss + Jacksonville loss or tie OR
- Kansas City loss + Indianapolis loss or tie OR
- San Diego loss or tie + Jacksonville loss or tie OR
- San Diego loss or tie + Indianapolis loss or tie
The New York Jets can clinch a playoff spot with:
- A win over the Chicago Bears OR
- A Jacksonville loss or tie OR
- Indianapolis loss or tie
So basically, if the Patriots and Steelers win, they'll have the top two seeds and the first round byes. If the Chiefs win and San Diego loses, the Chiefs win the AFC West. And if both the Ravens and Jets win, they both clinch a playoff spot, which will most likely be the two wild card spots. The only playoff spot that can't be determined this weekend is the AFC South Championship between the Indianapolis Colts and Jacksonville Jaguars.
As for the NFC.
Atlanta Falcons can clinch NFC South and homefield advantage with:
- A win over the New Orleans Saints on Monday Night Football
The Philadelphia Eagles can clinch the NFC East with:
- A win over the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday Night Football OR
- A tie and a New York Giants loss or tie to the Green Bay Packers OR
- A New York Giants loss to the Green Bay Packers
The Philadelphia Eagles can clinch a playoff spot with:
- An Eagles tie with Minnesota OR
- Tampa Bay loss or tie
The Chicago Bears can clinch a first-round bye with:
- A win over the New York Jets AND
- A Philadelphia Eagles loss to the Minnesota Vikings AND
- A New York Giants loss to the Green Bay Packers
The New Orleans Saints can clinch a playoff spot with:
- A win over the Atlanta Falcons OR
- Tampa Bay loss
The New York Giants can clinch a playoff spot with:
- A win over the Green Bay Packers
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So?
So does this mean that theres no way we can have the pleasure of knocking the ravens out of the playoffs like the Steelers did to us in 06’(or Shayne Graham did to us by not kickin a 39 yd field goal)?
I was hoping just for fun, we could kick out both the ravens and chargers
Dammit New Orleans.
Dammit.
Oh well, we can still screw the Chargers! Let’s do this Bengals!
Joe Reedy: "Supposedly Marvin could not find his flag to challenge the call. I am not kidding. #bengals"
I seen this and thought? Why in the world do we care we're not in the hunt.
This is all irrelevant unless you’re rooting for us to be playoff spoilers for someone. I personally don’t care if we’re in a spoiler scenario or not. I just want to see us win the game week to week.
I don't care about knocking the Chargers out, but I hate the Ravens and I want the Bengals to knock them out.
"I bet that sex Bengals fan is really pissed now." -DT3428
Go Browns
I hate the Ravens. I want the Bengals to knock them out of the playoffs in the last week.
"Ryan, Things in here don't react too well to bullets." - Marko Ramius

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