{"id":363775,"date":"2025-12-22T14:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/363775\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T14:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:30:08","slug":"bills-playoff-picture-buffalo-wins-in-week-16-but-their-postseason-slot-remains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/363775\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills playoff picture: Buffalo wins in Week 16 but their postseason slot remains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With their win, the Bills moved even closer. Their magic number is down to one. If the Indianapolis Colts lose this week, Buffalo clinches a spot. Houston won in the late afternoon slot against the Raiders, so Buffalo is rooting for San Francisco as the Colts play Monday night against the 49ers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Los Angeles Chargers also won, so the Bills didn\u2019t move up at all in the wild card picture. The Houston Texans stick in seventh place with their win, as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The New England Patriots won on Sunday night, so the Bills will need a Week 17 win in order to stay within striking distance for the division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The New England Patriots won on Sunday night to move to 12-3. They can clinch the division in week 17 with a win and a Bills loss.<\/p>\n<p>Updated AFC playoff picture<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Denver Broncos lost to the Jacksonville Jaguars in the biggest game of the weekend in the AFC. Denver is still the top team for now, but the Patriots play Sunday night and the Jaguars are lurking.<\/p>\n<p>Eliminated from AFC playoff contention<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With their win, the Bills moved even closer. Their magic number is down to one. If the Indianapolis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[179169,349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-363775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-buffalo-bills-playoffs","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}