Think You Know This Year’s NFL Playoffs? Think Again

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Published: December 22, 2009

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... less about what will happen than we did when there were three weeks left.  Before week 15, the NFL’s focus was on three elite teams seeming head and shoulders above the rest.

New Orleans, Indianapolis, and Minnesota were a combined 37-2 and looking nearly indestructible.  Cincinnati was looking to earn the second seed in the AFC and its associated first round bye.  Dallas was a December joke who was growing worried about just making the playoffs.  The Packers were a monster on a roll with five consecutive wins.  Denver was a wild card lock and Miami and New York were looking to upend New England in the AFC East.

An array of odds-bucking results have now given a shake to the playoff outlook with a mere two games left to play.  Who is favored?  What will the playoff seeding be?  Who hold the wild card berths?  With a few exceptions (primarily the last wild card slots) most of these results seemed settled.  Now all that ma...

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