{"id":56296,"date":"2025-11-17T01:23:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T01:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/56296\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T01:23:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T01:23:21","slug":"afc-playoff-picture-los-angeles-chargers-drop-a-spot-with-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/56296\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC playoff picture: Los Angeles Chargers drop a spot with loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Los Angeles Chargers lost on Sunday and the Buffalo Bills won, which moved the Bills up and the Chargers down in the wild card slots. Along with the Jacksonville Jaguars, who beat the Chargers on Sunday, all three teams remain in playoff position for now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The New England Patriots won on Thursday night, passing the Indianapolis Colts for first place. Then the Denver Broncos moved into first place after their win. Indy is on their bye. The Pittsburgh Steelers also won to stick in the fourth slot as the AFC North leader.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Broncos put more distance between themselves and the rest of the division with both KC and Denver losing. Denver has a two-game lead. That Week 18 games against the Chargers could be huge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Houston Texans evened their record at 5-5 and are a game out of the playoffs right now. They play the Bills on Thursday night. Joining the Texans at 5-5 are the Chiefs and the surging Baltimore Ravens.<\/p>\n<p>AFC playoff standings after Week 11<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Indianapolis Colts were on a bye.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Las Vegas Raiders play on Monday night but their outcome won\u2019t impact the standings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">1. Denver Broncos (9-2, 6-2 AFC)<br \/>2. New England Patriots (9-2, 5-2 AFC)<br \/>3. Indianapolis Colts (8-2, win over DEN)<br \/>4. Pittsburgh Steelers (6-4)<br \/>5. Buffalo Bills (7-3)<br \/>6. Los Angeles Chargers (7-4) <br \/>7. Jacksonville Jaguars (6-4)<br \/>8. Houston Texans (5-5, 4-2 AFC)<br \/>9. Kansas City Chiefs (5-5, 2-4 AFC, win over BAL)<br \/>10. Baltimore Ravens (5-5, 3-3 AFC, loss to KC)<br \/>11. Miami Dolphins (4-7)<br \/>12. Cincinnati Bengals (3-7)<br \/>13. Las Vegas Raiders (2-7)<br \/>14. New York Jets (2-8)<br \/>15. Cleveland Browns (2-8)<br \/>16. Tennessee Titans (1-9)<\/p>\n<p>AFC West standings after Week 11<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Chiefs lost to the Broncos while the Las Vegas Raiders play on Monday night. The Chargers are going to need help if they want to win the division in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">1. Denver Broncos (9-2)<br \/>2. Los Angeles Chargers (7-4)<br \/>3. Kansas City Chiefs (5-5)<br \/>4. Las Vegas Raiders (2-7)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Chargers lost on Sunday and the Buffalo Bills won, which moved the Bills up and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,12077,50,49],"class_list":["post-56296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-chargers-news","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}