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Now there's apparently talk of adding an 8th playoff team in each conference in order to negate the advantage of a potential bye week in the AFC. If they add an 8th team this year you can bet that will be the standard going forward.

Kansas City Jacksonville New York Jets Houston Minnesota Cincinnati Carolina Buffalo Atlanta Pittsburgh Seattle Denver Philadelphia San Francisco Dallas Detroit Tiebreaker 1 - 57 Tiebreaker 2 - 332 Tiebreaker 3 - 78

Pro Football Talk is reporting that "momentum is building" towards Bills/Bengals not being resumed and playoff seedings in the AFC being based on winning percentage after the Week 18 games.

What CSC said. If the Chiefs win, the #1 seed is out of reach for the Bills and Bengals/Ravens is still a winner-take-all for the NFC North. I think.

The league has informed the teams that the Bengals/Bills game "will not be resumed this week."

And we kick things off with Skip Bayless doing Undisputed by himself this morning because his shitty Damar Hamlin tweet from last night pissed off Shannon Sharpe, who no-showed. And my tweets are doing the "not embedding" thing again, damn it. (Fixed! -Dolfan)

Never mind.

When presented with the opportunity to either a) show a game that's "win or go home" for both teams involved independent of the other 15 games on the schedule or b) kiss Aaron Rodgers' ass for three hours, the National Football League happily chose "b."

The Texans and Bears will (likely) have the top two picks in the 2023 NFL Draft. If Houston loses at Indianapolis on Sunday, they get #1. Should they win and the Bears lose to Minnesota at home, Chicago will jump to #1 (and subsequently trade that pick for a metric assload of draft capital). There's a chance that the Bears could drop as low as 4 if they win on Sunday, with Arizona and Denver having a chance to leapfrog them.

Your Saturday Week 18 games: 4:30 PM Eastern - Chiefs at Raiders 8:15 PM Eastern - Titans at Jaguars Both of those games will be on ABC/ESPN. Remainder of Week 18 schedule coming tomorrow after Bills/Bengals, though I'm assuming this makes Lions/Packers the Sunday Night game.

Hooray for kicking the field goal to take it from a two-score game to. . .a two-score game.

I did get the Season Pass so I have the DLC. I had just totally forgotten about it. Off to Dreamveil Outlook I go, it would appear.

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1609016015303630848 Longtime ABC News correspondent/interviewer Barbara Walters has passed away at the age of 93, per ABC News.

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Five teams still have a chance to land the #1 overall pick in the 2023 NFL Draft, but it's really a two-team race. http://www.playoffstatus.com/nfl/nfldraftorder.html Houston Texans: 63% (Remaining schedule: vs Jacksonville, at Indianapolis) Chicago Bears: 35% (at Detroit, vs Minnesota) Seattle Seahawks (via Denver Broncos): 2% (at Kansas City, vs Los Angeles Chargers) Arizona Cardinals: <1% (at Atlanta, at San Francisco) Indianapolis Colts: <1% (at New York Giants, vs Houston) If Houston and Chicago both lose this weekend, it will officially be a two-team race as nobody else will be able to catch those two teams.

I really hope they go Titans/Jaguars. The NFL does love them some "win or go home" games.

Finished the game last night. Never did go back and do the Kastor quest. Also haven't done the Chaos Chamber. Will probably go see what it's all about here the next time I jump on. All in all, another really fun installment in the Borderlands series.

Tennessee Philadelphia Detroit Carolina Denver New York Giants Jacksonville Atlanta Washington New England Seattle San Francisco Los Angeles Chargers Minnesota Baltimore Cincinnati Tiebreaker 1 - Burrow Tiebreaker 2 - 76 Tiebreaker 3 - 47

If the NFL is rigged can we get them to book the Vikings winning a Super Bowl at some point before I die? Not, like, ten Super Bowls or even five. Just one. I don't think this is a big ask.

Your NFC Playoff scenarios for this week. Clinched: Minnesota Vikings (NFC North), San Francisco 49ers (NFC West), Philadelphia Eagles (playoff berth), Dallas Cowboys (playoff berth) Philadelphia Eagles Clinch NFC East with Win vs New Orleans, OR Dallas loss at Tennessee Clinch NFC #1 seed with Win vs New Orleans, OR Minnesota loss at Green Bay AND Dallas loss at Tennessee AND San Francisco loss at Las Vegas Tampa Bay Buccaneers Clinch NFC South with Win at Carolina New York Football Giants Clinch playoff berth with Win vs Indianapolis, OR Washington loss vs Cleveland AND Seattle loss vs New York Jets, OR Washington loss vs Cleveland AND Detroit loss vs Chicago AND Green Bay loss vs Minnesota, OR Detroit loss vs Chicago AND Seattle loss vs New York Jets AND Green Bay loss vs Minnesota

Your AFC Playoff scenarios for this week. Clinched: Buffalo Bills (AFC East), Kansas City Chiefs (AFC West), Cincinnati Bengals (playoff berth), Baltimore Ravens (playoff berth), Los Angeles Chargers (playoff berth) Buffalo Bills Clinch AFC #1 seed with Win at Cincinnati AND Kansas City loss vs Denver Cincinnati Bengals Clinch AFC North with Win vs Kansas City Buffalo AND Baltimore loss vs Pittsburgh Miami Dolphins Clinch playoff spot with Win at New England AND New York Jets loss at Seattle

The NFL week is over and a new thread was created, just like every week. If you're looking to check people's integrity or decency, you're barking up the wrong tree.

As the Mass Effect crowd might say: Hackett Out. The Broncos finally decided that "he should go."