Week 17 of the 2024 NFL season bought off to an early begin, with a pair of video games that includes among the high groups within the AFC. Within the early sport the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs knocked off the Pittsburgh Steelers by a closing rating of 29-10, whereas the Baltimore Ravens saved their AFC North desires alive within the later sport with a win over the Houston Texans.
The motion continues Thursday, because the Seattle Seahawks journey to the Windy Metropolis to tackle the Chicago Bears.
Whereas Chicago has already been eradicated from the playoffs, the Seahawks can both maintain their playoff hopes alive with a win, or be eradicated themselves relying on how tonight’s sport unfolds.
Seahawks playoff image
Just a few weeks in the past the Seahawks managed their very own playoff destiny.
Now, their destiny is basically out of their very own management.
Seattle can not clinch a playoff spot in Week 17, however they’re dealing with elimination. Seattle could be eradicated from the playoffs if any of those eventualities occur:
Bears playoff image
The Bears have already been eradicated from the playoffs. In the intervening time, the Bears maintain the ninth choose within the 2025 NFL Draft.
Tiebreaker implications
With the Bears already eradicated from the playoffs, this sport is not going to have tiebreaker implications for Chicago.
As for the Seahawks a win towards Chicago would enhance their convention file to 5-6. Why may this matter? There’s a wild state of affairs the place the NFC West title may get deep into the tie-breaking procedures, which we referenced earlier. Assume for a second that Seattle wins towards Chicago, after which once more in Week 18 towards the Los Angeles Rams. That may see Seattle end at 10-7, with a 6-6 file within the NFC.
Then if the Rams win in Week 17 towards the Arizona Cardinals, then lose to Seattle in Week 18, they too would end at 10-7. That may additionally imply that the Seahawks and the Rams spilt their season sequence, kicking in an unimaginable set of tiebreakers.
Actually, we’ll simply let the Seahawks’ crew website clarify this wild state of affairs:
If each the Rams and Seahawks win this week, nonetheless, it’s not as easy, as a result of in that state of affairs, a Seahawks Week 18 win would depart each groups with the identical file, a head-to-head break up, the identical NFC West file, the identical file in widespread video games, and the identical convention file. The fifth tiebreaker in any case of that’s power of victory, and heading into Week 17, the Rams have the sting there, thanks largely to the truth that they’ve wins over the Payments and Vikings.
And because of that power of victory lead, the Rams may clinch this week with a win even when the Seahawks additionally win, doing so in the event that they get 3.5 or extra wins from the Vikings (vs. Packers), Payments (vs. Jets), 49ers (vs. Lions), Commanders (vs. Falcons), Bengals (vs. Broncos) and Browns (vs. Dolphins).
So principally for the Seahawks, to nonetheless be within the NFC West race after Sunday, they want both a Cardinals win over the Rams, through which case Week 18 is for the division title it doesn’t matter what, or if the Rams win Saturday, the Seahawks must win, they usually want 4 wins from Packers, Jets, Lions, Falcons, Broncos or Dolphins out of the above six video games.
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