Week 17 NFL: The seeding thread

Homefield advantage remains up for grabs in both conferences, with Carolina (14-1) leading but Arizona (13-2) still in play in the NFC and New England controlling its destiny in the AFC but Denver still in the mix.

The late start for Panthers-Bucs makes things interesting because the Cardinals are playing at the same time. The Patriots can lock up the top seed with an early win over the Dolphins, and Bengals-Ravens is early as well. The Broncos still have the most scenarios in play with the Chiefs in the division mix as well, and KC faces Oakland in a late afternoon game while Denver is hosting San Diego.

Basically, neither conference likely will be figured out before 7 p.m. Sunday.

 

The Redskins can rest their starters with a playoff berth already clinched. This is apparently real life. Amazing.

 

Interesting scenario in Green Bay, where the winner takes the division title but likely gets a harder matchup (winner gets Seahawks, loser gets Redskins).

 

Yep. Of all the teams still vying for playoff spots, the Redskins are the only one with a meaningless game this week.

McCoy starts, right?

 

Seahawks can't get fifth seed?

 

The Bills hosting the Jets this weekend is beyond ironic.

 

I SAID LIKELY.

Looks like Seattle gets the 5 and the Redskins if they and the Vikings win. Any other combination and they're the 6.

This may have been posted on the week 16 thread, but here's what needs to happen for the Colts to sneak in:

Colts beat Titans
Jags beat Texans
Bills beat Jets
Dolphins beat Pats
Ravens beat Bengals
Falcons beat Saints (guessing this is for some sort of strength of schedule tiebreaker)
Raiders beat Chiefs
Broncos beat Chargers
Steelers beat Browns

 

Yeah, Seattle beat Minnesota but lost to Green Bay. Of course, if they lose against Arizona, then it doesn't matter.

 

Hey, they already got the Denver win they needed! 10 percent down! BTW, who is QBing the Colts this week?

 

I think the Falcons-Saints game is for something called strength of victory, which is the sixth tiebreaker. Houston actually could have clinched the AFC South last night if Cincinnati had won, based off of it.

On a side note, I wonder what that nine-team parlay would pay out?

 

The last thing anyone wants is for Ryan to crow about ending the Jets' season after doing a terrible job for most of the past 16 weeks.

 

This is exactly the opposite of what it really is.

Seattle gets the 5 seed if they and the Packers win. Seattle gets the 6 seed if they and the Vikings win.

The Seahawks and the North runner-up would be 10-6, and the Seahawks win the tiebreaker against the Vikings and lose it against the Packers.

If the Seahawks lose earlier in the day, the winner of the SNF matchup gets the 3 seed and a matchup with Seattle, and the loser gets the 5 seed and a visit to the Redskins. Pretty sure I'd want to lose in that scenario.