The 2021-22 NFL regular season comes to an end after Week 18 finishes on Sunday, January 9th. The NFL playoffs start the next weekend (January 15-17) and feature our first ever Monday night wildcard game.
With Week 17 nearly in the books, the NFL playoff picture is nearly complete. We now have 14 teams who have officially been eliminated, and 11 teams who have already clinched a spot in the playoffs. This leaves just three playoff spots still up for grabs and a total of seven teams fighting for them.
Ahead of Sunday Night Football of Week 17, the Titans and Packers occupy the top seeds in their respective conferences. The Buffalo Bills overtook the Patriots in the AFC East after beating them in Week 16, moving them up to the fourth seed in the AFC. Miami, who held the final wildcard spot in the AFC entering Week 17, fell out of the playoff picture with a bad loss to the Titans on Sunday. The Chargers have moved up into the final spot now.
Thanks to the Cardinals losing three in a row entering Week 17, the Rams have moved into the top spot in the NFC West, placing them in the third seed in the NFC and dropping Arizona to the wildcard. The Cowboys’ loss to the Cardinals sees them fall from the 2-seed to the 4-seed. The Eagles are currently in the final wildcard spot with a 9-7 record.
If the regular season were to end today, the wildcard matchups would be as seen above. The AFC would see a rubber matches between the Patriots and Bills as well as Chargers and Chiefs.
The most intriguing wildcard matchup in the NFC might be the 49ers vs Buccaneers, which represents a matchup between the last two teams to make the Super Bowl from the conference.
Whats your prediction? Im going Greenbay and Cincinatti unbias pick and Dallas vs KC as a fan I would love to see our two lightskin brothers battle it out.
