The AFC North is sort of definitely going to have only one playoff staff, and it’s prone to be one among these two groups. They nonetheless have two head-to-head video games remaining on the schedule, together with a Week 18 sport in Pittsburgh.
Each groups are 6-6 and neither one goes into this sport trying overly spectacular. There are additionally vital harm issues with each quarterbacks as Pittsburgh’s Aaron Rodgers and Baltimore’s Lamar Jackson are each coping with accidents.
They’re flawed groups backing into the sport, however it’s nonetheless an enormous sport that may dramatically change the AFC North race.
It was only some weeks in the past that the Colts had been 7-1 and in full management of the AFC South.
Now they’ve misplaced three of their previous 4 video games, discover themselves tied for the highest spot with Jacksonville and have Houston only one sport behind them.
The remainder of their schedule can be daunting as they play yet another sport in opposition to Houston, each video games in opposition to Jacksonville and in addition non-division video games in opposition to the Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers. Will they even win any of them? Might they go from the No. 1 seed within the AFC to out of the playoffs completely? It isn’t out of the query to assume that they might end in third place within the division the way in which issues are going and the way in which the remaining schedule appears to be like.
The massive query with the Bears within the first half was the very fact that they had not likely overwhelmed any good groups, and in reality had been blown out by the 2 potential playoff groups they performed. It created some questions as to what they’d do with their second-half schedule that featured an in depth listing of playoff contenders.
They made a giant assertion over the previous two weeks with wins over the Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles.
Now they’re getting one other large check on Sunday in opposition to a Packers staff that’s trying like a prime contender within the NFC.
It’s the third sport of the weekend the place first place is on the road.
If the Bears win this sport, there must be no extra questioning of them or their schedule. They are going to be legit.
One other week, one other pivotal sport for the Chiefs and the playoff probabilities. After shedding to the Dallas Cowboys on Thanksgiving the Chiefs now discover themselves able the place they’ve virtually no margin for error the remainder of the way in which. Even yet another loss could possibly be sufficient to knock them out of the playoffs this season. That might be remarkable based mostly on the preseason expectations and what they’ve carried out within the Andy Reid-Patrick Mahomes period.
Houston, in the meantime, can’t solely strengthen its wild-card probabilities, but additionally hold tempo within the AFC South race. The Texans protection is perhaps one of the best unit within the AFC and that alone makes them a tough staff to take care of proper now.
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