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Clinch playoff berth with: Win or tie. Miami Dolphins. Clinch playoff berth with: Win + Broncos loss. Detroit Lions. Clinch NFC North and NFC's No. 1 seed with: Win or tie. Minnesota Vikings.
Clinch playoff berth with: Dolphins loss or tie + Colts loss or tie. Philadelphia Eagles. Clinch NFC East title with: Eagles win or tie. Green Bay Packers. Clinch playoff berth with: Packers win ...
Miami clinches playoff berth with: Win + Denver loss. Detroit clinches NFC North and NFC's No. 1 seed (first-round bye and home-field advantage) with: Win or tie.
Minnesota Vikings: Playoff berth. Philadelphia Eagles: Playoff berth. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: NFL playoff scenarios Week 17: NFC field could lock in with last spots.
A wild card (also wildcard or wild-card and also known as an at-large berth or at-large bid) is an invitation to a tournament or a playoff berth awarded to a team or individual that does not qualify via an automatic bid. In some events, wildcards are chosen freely by the organizers. Other events have fixed rules.
Beginning in 2015–16, the NBA became the first major American league to eliminate automatic playoff berths for division champions; the top eight teams overall in each conference now qualify for the playoffs, regardless of divisional alignment. Since the 2019–20 season, only the top six teams qualify directly to the playoffs.
Washington's clinched a playoff spot and enter Week 18 as the No. 6 seed. They'll keep it with a win over Dallas but could lose it and drop to the No. 7 seed with a loss and a Green Bay win.
The names of the first two playoff rounds date back to the postseason format that was first used in 1978, when the league added a second wild-card team to each conference. The first round of the playoffs is dubbed the wild-card round, wild-card weekend, or, from 2020–21 to 2023–24, super wild-card weekend. [4]