historic<\/a> five-touchdown performance.<\/p>\nHere’s a look at the NFL playoff picture now that the Patriots are officially on top of the AFC East.<\/p>\n
1. z-Denver Broncos (13-3)<\/p>\n
2. z-New England Patriots (13-3)<\/p>\n
3. x-Jacksonville Jaguars (12-4)<\/p>\n
4. Pittsburgh Steelers (9-7)<\/p>\n
5. y-Buffalo Bills (11-5)<\/p>\n
6. x-Houston Texans (11-5)<\/p>\n
7. y-Los Angeles Chargers (11-5)<\/p>\n
8. Baltimore Ravens (8-8)<\/p>\n
9. Indianapolis Colts (8-8)<\/p>\n
11. Cincinnati Bengals (6-10)<\/p>\n
12. Kansas City Chiefs (6-10)<\/p>\n
13. Cleveland Browns (4-12)<\/p>\n
14. Tennessee Titans (3-13)<\/p>\n
16. Las Vegas Raiders (2-14)<\/p>\n
1. x-Seattle Seahawks (13-3)<\/p>\n
2. z-Chicago Bears (11-4)<\/p>\n
3. z-Philadelphia Eagles (10-5)<\/p>\n
4. Carolina Panthers (8-8)<\/p>\n
5. x-San Francisco 49ers (11-4)<\/p>\n
6. x-Los Angeles Rams (11-4)<\/p>\n
7. y-Green Bay Packers (9-6-1)<\/p>\n
8. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (7-9)<\/p>\n
9. Minnesota Vikings (8-8)<\/p>\n
11. Dallas Cowboys (7-8-1)<\/p>\n
12. Atlanta Falcons (6-9)<\/p>\n
13. New Orleans Saints (6-10)<\/p>\n
14. Washington Commanders (4-12)<\/p>\n
15. Arizona Cardinals (3-13)<\/p>\n
16. New York Giants (3-13)<\/p>\n
x- clinched playoff berth, y- clinched wild card, z- clinched division<\/p>\n
The Patriots remain in the running to win the AFC and start out their return to the playoffs with a first-round bye.<\/p>\n
The Denver Broncos, who hold a tiebreaker over the Patriots, remain in control of the conference and could claim the top seed with a Week 18 win over the Los Angeles Chargers.<\/p>\n
Should the Bolts win, however, the Patriots could take over for the conference lead with a win over the Miami Dolphins next weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New England Patriots are AFC East champions for the first time since the Tom Brady era. Drake…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-374220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}