NFL Week 17 Playoff Picture and Scenarios

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NFL Week 17 Playoff Picture
with Clinching and Elimination Scenarios​

John Morgan

While many of the top NFL teams such as New England, Seattle, Carolina and Green Bay lost in Week 16, nobody was more negatively affected than Pittsburgh. A shockingly flat performance against an injury-riddled Baltimore team that was forced to turn to a recently out-of-work Ryan Mallett as their fourth starting quarterback this season, will most likely keep the Steelers out of post-season play.

Losses by the Patriots and Panthers prevented those teams from securing home field advantage throughout the playoffs, but did not drop them in the playoff standings. Seattle’s loss at worse means only the difference between a fifth and sixth seed, and despite the Packers looking abysmal on Sunday night, they are still in the driver’s seat to win the division and claim the number three seed in the NFC.

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