NFL Playoff Picture - Week 17

The regular season has finished. Here are your playoff participants:

NFC
   Week 11    Week 12    Week 13    Week 14    Week 15    Week 16    Week 17
1. Atl (9-1)  Atl (10-1) Atl (11-1) Atl (11-2) Atl (12-2) Atl (13-2) Atl (13-3)
2. SF* (7-2)  SF* (8-2)  SF* (8-3)  SF* (9-3)  SF* (10-3) GB  (11-4) SF* (11-4)
3. GB  (7-3)  Chi (8-3)  GB  (8-4)  GB  (9-4)  GB  (10-4) SF* (10-4) GB  (11-5)
4. NYG (6-4)  NYG (7-4)  NYG (7-5)  NYG (8-5)  Was (8-6)  Was (9-6)  Was (10-6)
5. Chi (7-3)  GB  (7-4)  Chi (8-4)  Sea (8-5)  Sea (9-5)  Sea (10-5) Sea (11-5)
6. Sea (6-4)  Sea (6-5)  Sea (7-5)  Chi (8-5)  Min (8-6)  Min (9-6)  Min (10-6)
------------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------- ----------
7. TB  (6-4)  TB  (6-5)  Was (6-6)  Was (7-6)  Chi (8-6)  Chi (9-6)  Chi (10-6)
8. Min (6-4)  Min (6-5)  Dal (6-6)  Dal (7-6)  Dal (8-6)  Dal (8-7)
9.                       TB  (6-6)  Min (7-6)  NYG (8-6)  NYG (8-7)
10.                      Min (6-6)

AFC
   Week 11    Week 12    Week 13    Week 14    Week 15    Week 16    Week 17
1. Hou (9-1)  Hou (10-1) Hou (11-1) Hou (11-2) Hou (12-2) Hou (12-3) Den (13-3)
2. Bal (8-2)  Bal (9-2)  NE  (9-3)  NE  (10-3) Den (11-3) Den (12-3) NE  (12-4)
3. NE  (7-3)  NE  (8-3)  Bal (9-3)  Den (10-3) NE  (10-4) NE  (11-4) Hou (12-4)
4. Den (7-3)  Den (8-3)  Den (9-3)  Bal (9-4)  Bal (9-5)  Bal (10-5) Bal (10-6)
5. Ind (6-4)  Ind (7-4)  Ind (8-4)  Ind (9-4)  Ind (9-5)  Ind (10-5) Ind (11-5)
6. Pit (6-4)  Pit (6-5)  Pit (7-5)  Pit (7-6)  Cin (8-6)  Cin (9-6)  Cin (10-6)
------------  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------
7. Cin (5-5)  Cin (6-5)  Cin (7-5)  Cin (7-6)  Pit (7-7)

Tiebreakers: In the NFC, Minnesota grabbed the final playoff spot due a better divisional record than Chicago. The two split their season series.

In the AFC, Baltimore took the division and thus the fourth seed over Cincinnati on a better divisional record as they also split their season series. New England grabbed the second seed due to their win over Houston a few weeks back.

Anybody expecting Indy to beat the Ravens next week to set up a meeting with Denver? Of course, Houston has to beat Cincinnati as well. Should be an interesting wild card weekend.

Enjoy the playoffs everyone!

Sean