NFC Playoff status ***merged*** **updated 12/20 post #226

[links18]

I would like clarification on this also..

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[ABQCOWBOY]

Looking at the ESPN playoff scenario tool, it appears that, in week 17, if we beat WAS and DET beats GB, we're in the playoffs no matter what happens in any other game over the next two weeks. Do they have that right?

Not that the Lions beating the Packers in Lambeau is likely, but I didn't realize there was such a simple path to the wild card.

No, that's not right.

 

[mldardy]

Would rather win out.

 

[Tabascocat]

It matters what SEA and Arizona does still, can't come down to a 3-way tie or a H2H with Arizona.

 

[THEHEREAFTER]

Det is not beating GB in GB...

 

[cowboys1981]

Id say yes maybe the matchup vs Seattle will help us

 

[Pessimist_cowboy]

It's correct . We'd have the tie breaker based on common opponents .

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Az is in.
If Seattle wins out, they are in.
GB or Detroit are in. If either wins one more game, they are both in.
The Winner of the South is in.
That means that if we lose one game and Philly wins out, they are in and we are out.

We have to win out to insure we make the playoffs. Doesn't matter what anybody else does.

 

[cowboys1981]

It says in that scenario we win tie breaker based on record vs common opponents. We beat Sea and NO. They lost to both

 

[Pessimist_cowboy]

Az is in.
If Seattle wins out, they are in.
GB or Detroit are in. If either wins one more game, they are both in.
The Winner of the South is in.
That means that if we lose one game and Philly wins out, they are in and we are out.

We have to win out to insure we make the playoffs. Doesn't matter what anybody else does.

Not true on GB .

 

[Pessimist_cowboy]

It says in that scenario we win tie breaker based on record vs common opponents

Yep

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

It's correct . We'd have the tie breaker based on common opponents .

It's not correct. If we lose to Indy and Philly wins out, they go to the Playoffs, we go home.

 

[JD_KaPow]

Hmm, the Yahoo generator agrees. We win the three-way tie against ARI and GB, according to this, and the three-way tiebreaker against SEA and GB (assuming GB loses to Detroit). Oh, and the head-to-head with GB in the case that SEA and ARI both finish 12-4.

 

[Pessimist_cowboy]

It's not correct. If we lose to Indy and Philly wins out, they go to the Playoffs, we go home.

We are talking about Gb

 

[Tabascocat]

It's not correct. If we lose to Indy and Philly wins out, they go to the Playoffs, we go home.

They are talking about the last WC, not the division. We can lose to Indy and still have a minute chance to get in.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

OK.

 

[Trendnet]

They are talking about the last WC, not the division. We can lose to Indy and still have a minute chance to get in.

Green Bay would need to lose to Detroit, and finish 11-5. GB would lose the tie breaker to Dallas, and Dallas would be traveling to Philly in the first round.

 

[JohnsKey19]

I'd rather watch Philly somehow lose to Washington on Saturday and we wrap up the division the following day beating Indy.

 

[JD_KaPow]

Green Bay would need to lose to Detroit, and finish 11-5. GB would lose the tie breaker to Dallas, and Dallas would be traveling to Philly in the first round.

Only if we lose to Indy and beat Washington. If we beat Indy but lose to Washington, GB holds the tiebreaker against us.

 

[Tabascocat]

Green Bay would need to lose to Detroit, and finish 11-5. GB would lose the tie breaker to Dallas, and Dallas would be traveling to Philly in the first round.

I get that, but if either SEA or Arizona finish at 11-5....we are out. I do concede that we have the tie-breaker over GB and Seattle but other things have to fall our way.

Add: this is if DET beats GB and if we win at Washington.