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We have reached the final weekend of the 2015 NFL regular season and playoff spots and seeding remains up for grabs for numerous teams across the league.<\/p>\n
Below we do our best to help fans understand exactly what needs to happen for each team to claim bye weeks, home games or simply a playoff spot.<\/p>\n
CLINCHED: New England \u2013 AFC East and a first-round bye, Cincinnati \u2013 AFC North, Denver \u2013 playoff berth, Kansas City \u2013 playoff berth.<\/p>\n
New England\u00a0(at Miami)<\/strong> Denver (vs. San Diego)<\/strong> Cincinnati\u00a0(vs. Baltimore)<\/strong> Kansas City (vs. Oakland)<\/strong> New York (at Buffalo)<\/strong> Pittsburgh<\/b>\u00a0(at Cleveland)<\/strong> Houston\u00a0(vs. Jacksonville)<\/strong> Indianapolis\u00a0(vs. Tennessee)<\/strong> If somehow a mixture of this and above occurs due to ties, the next tiebreaker is points scored and allowed. In that case Houston is currently ahead.<\/p>\n This scenario is extremely difficult to understand, remember or simply write out. That means there is really no chance of all of this chaos happening so do not get your hopes up. Especially since Stephen Morris is in line to start at quarterback for the Colts.<\/p>\n CLINCHED: Carolina \u2013 NFC South and a first-round bye, Arizona \u2013 NFC West and a first-round bye, Washington \u2013 NFC East and the No. 4 seed, Green Bay \u2013 playoff berth, Minnesota \u2013 playoff berth, Seattle \u2013 wild card.<\/p>\n Carolina (vs. Tampa Bay)<\/strong> Arizona (vs. Seattle)<\/strong> Green Bay\u00a0(vs. Minnesota, Sunday night)<\/strong> Minnesota\u00a0(at Green Bay, Sunday night)<\/strong> We have reached the final weekend of the 2015 NFL regular season and playoff spots and seeding remains up for grabs for numerous teams across the league. Below we do our best to help fans understand exactly what needs to happen for each team to claim bye weeks, home games or simply a playoff spot. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[426,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-15184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15186,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15184\/revisions\/15186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15184"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=15184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNew England\u00a0clinch\u00a0home-field advantage throughout AFC playoffs with a win or tie OR\u00a0a Denver loss or tie<\/p>\n
\nDenver\u00a0clinches the AFC West with a win or tie OR a Kansas City loss or tie.
\nDenver\u00a0clinches a first-round bye with a win OR a tie and a Cincinnati loss or tie OR a Kansas City loss or tie and a Cincinnati loss.
\nDenver\u00a0clinches home-field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs with a win and a New England loss.<\/p>\n
\nCincinnati clinches a first-round bye with a win and a Denver loss or tie, OR a tie and a Denver loss, OR a Denver loss and Kansas City win.<\/p>\n
\nKansas City clinches the AFC West with a win and a Denver loss.<\/p>\n
\nThe New York Jets clinch a wild card with a win or tie OR a Pittsburgh loss or tie.<\/p>\n
\nPittsburgh clinches a wild card with a win and a Jets loss.<\/p>\n
\nHouston clinches the AFC South with a win or tie OR an Indianapolis loss or tie OR via strength of schedule if both teams lose. All Houston would need is a win or tie by one of the following;\u00a0Cincinnati, New England, New Orleans, the New York Jets or San Diego. Houston also clinches the strength of schedule tiebreaker over Indianapolis if Kansas City wins or ties and Baltimore wins or ties as long as both do not tie.<\/p>\n
\nIndianapolis clinches the AFC South with a win and a Houston loss if all of the following teams win; Atlanta, Baltimore, Buffalo, Denver and Miami PLUS\u00a0Oakland and Pittsburgh either win or tie, but they don\u2019t both tie.<\/p>\nNFC<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nCarolina clinches home-field advantage throughout the NFC playoffs with a win or tie OR an Arizona loss or tie.<\/p>\n
\nArizona clinches home-field advantage throughout the NFC playoffs with a win and a Carolina loss.<\/p>\n
\nGreen Bay clinches the NFC North with a win or tie.
\nA loss leaves them as a Wild Card team.<\/p>\n
\nMinnesota clinches NFC North division with a win.
\nA loss leaves them as a Wild Card team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"