That leaves the Bears one game up on the Lions entering Week 17, when Chicago faces another potential playoff team in the 49ers. Even at 10-4 and second in the NFC, Chicago is in a precarious position given the difficulty of its schedule, which concludes with ...

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NFL schedule set up perfect Buccaneers, Panthers finish for NFC South standings originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. The NFL schedule makers like to backlog the calendar with divisional matchups. But even then, there's no guarantee that those games will have any meaning.

The Chargers (10-4) have one of the most brutal schedules in the NFL over the final three weeks of the season. Their game in Week 17 against the Texans could end determining which team ends up getting the higher playoff seed. For now, the computer has the Chargers locked in at the sixth spot.

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As Week 16 approaches, we rounded up the latest NFL power rankings to get a sense of how the Jaguars are viewed nationally. “This was a big game in a lot of ways, and I think our guys have responded in so many ways in these big games,

The Patriots can't clinch the AFC East this week, but they can clinch a playoff berth and for that to happen, all they have to do is beat the Ravens on