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NFC Playoff Picture

Playoff Teams
1. Las Vegas Pumpkins 12-3 (win NFC West)
2. San Juan Orcas 11-4 (win NFC South)
3. Philadelphia Eagles 8-6-1 (NFC East leaders)
4. Minnesota Vikings 8-7 (NFC North leaders)
5. Atlanta Falcons 10-5 (Wild Card 1, clinched playoff spot)
6. Tampa Bay Buccaneers 9-6 (Wild Card 2)

Playoff Contenders
7. Dallas Cowboys 8-7
8. Seattle Seahawks 8-7
9. New York Giants 8-7
10. Green Bay Packers 7-8

Eliminated from Playoff Contention
11. St. Louis Rams 6-9
12. Washington Commanders 6-9
13. Detroit Lions 6-9
14. Chicago Bears 6-9
15. San Francisco 49ers 6-9
16. Carolina Panthers 5-10

Pumpkins and Orcas are locked into the top two seeds. Pumpkins get #1 with a win, and it's possible that they even get one with a loss and Orcas win. It would go to common games then, but I'm not dealing with that.

Falcons clinch the #5 seed with a win, tie, or Buccaneers loss.

Buccaneers clinch a playoff spot with a win or tie. If they win and Falcons lose, they should hold the tiebreaker over the Falcons and win the #5 seed.

Eagles play the Giants in Week 17, so if they win, they win the division. If they lose, they are eliminated from the playoffs. If they tie, they will need a Cowboys loss.

If the Cowboys and Giants both win, it would go to common games as to who would win the division between the two.

If the Vikings win/tie or Packers lose/tie, the Vikings win the division. If the Packers win and Vikings lose, the Packers will win the division via superior divisional record.

If the Buccaneers lose, the fight for the #6 seed can get pretty nutty. The Eagles can only get in via winning the division, so the only teams to consider here are the Bucs, Cowboys, Giants, and Seahawks. Cowboys and Giants have H2H victory over the Bucs, so if the Bucs lose, and both of those teams or just the Cowboys (with Eagles beating the Giants), and Seahawks lose, the Bucs would be eliminated and the second wild card would go to which of Cowboys/Giants did not win the division if both win or the Cowboys if both they and the Eagles win.

The Seahawks did not play the Bucs, Cowboys, or Giants, so it would all have to go common games should Bucs lose, Seahawks win, Cowboys win, and Eagles/Giants does not end in a tie, which I am not researching (which means Seahawks could already be eliminated for all I know)