{"id":338934,"date":"2025-12-10T07:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/338934\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T07:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T07:36:10","slug":"nfl-playoff-scenarios-for-week-15-how-3-teams-can-clinch-playoff-spots-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/338934\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Playoff Scenarios for Week 15: How 3 Teams Can Clinch Playoff Spots on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">It&#8217;s hat and T-shirt season in the <a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">The first tickets for the 2025 NFL playoffs can be punched in Week 15, with three teams holding playoff clinching scenarios on Sunday. One team can even win its own division in Week 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">Here&#8217;s how three can clinch a playoff spot this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">The Broncos, who host the <a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nfl\/green-bay-packers-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Green Bay Packers<\/a>, can clinch a playoff spot in Week 15 if the following things happen:<\/p>\n<p>Broncos win ORBroncos tie and Los Angeles Chargers lose to Kansas City Chiefs ORBroncos tie and Jacksonville Jaguars lose to New York Jets ORBroncos tie and Houston Texans lose or tie against Arizona Cardinals ORBroncos tie and Indianapolis Colts lose or tie against Seattle Seahawks ORTexans loss or tie and Colts loss or tie, as long as both games don&#8217;t end in a tie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">The Rams, who host the <a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nfl\/detroit-lions-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Lions<\/a>, can clinch a playoff spot in Week 15 if the following thing happens:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">The Patriots, who host the <a class=\"entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nfl\/buffalo-bills-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Bills<\/a>, can win the AFC East in Week 15 if the following thing happens:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">The Patriots haven&#8217;t secured a playoff berth yet, so a win would also clinch them a spot in the postseason. There are other ways the Patriots can clinch a postseason spot, too. Here&#8217;s how New England can clinch a playoff berth in Week 15, outside of a win:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Patriots tie and Chargers loss ORPatriots tie and Texans loss or tie ORPatriots tie and Colts loss or tie OR\u00a0Patriots tie and Jaguars lose ORTexans loss or tie and Colts loss or tie, as long as both games don&#8217;t end in a tie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">Want great stories delivered right to your inbox?<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/newsletter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Create or log in to your FOX Sports account<\/a>, and follow leagues, teams and players to receive a personalized newsletter daily!<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-7f81ca7a=\"\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s hat and T-shirt season in the NFL.\u00a0 The first tickets for the 2025 NFL playoffs can be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-338934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}