Recreation end result: In a ridiculous show, the Seattle Seahawks squeezed out a thrilling 6-3 win on Thursday night time to extend their playoff hopes. Seattle’s playoff hopes now hinge on Saturday and Sunday’s outcomes. The largest sport is the Rams on Saturday.
Week 17 of the 2024 NFL season bought off to an early begin, with a pair of video games that includes a few of the prime groups within the AFC. Within the early sport the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs knocked off the Pittsburgh Steelers by a last rating of 29-10, whereas the Baltimore Ravens stored 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
A couple of 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’t clinch a playoff spot in Week 17, however they’re dealing with elimination. Seattle can 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 decide 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 would possibly this matter? There’s a wild situation the place the NFC West title might 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 might 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 might additionally imply that the Seahawks and the Rams spilt their season sequence, kicking in an unimaginable set of tiebreakers.
The truth is, we’ll simply let the Seahawks’ workforce web site clarify this wild situation:
If each the Rams and Seahawks win this week, nonetheless, it’s not as easy, as a result of in that situation, a Seahawks Week 18 win would go away 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 spite of everything of that’s energy 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 due to that energy of victory lead, the Rams might 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 mainly 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 have to win, and so they want 4 wins from Packers, Jets, Lions, Falcons, Broncos or Dolphins out of the above six video games.
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