And Rex Ryan made certain to continue the New York Jets’ playoff drought.
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Skywriters have message for Trump at Rose Parade
The grand marshal is filmmaker Ken Burns , who produced the Emmy-award winning series “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea”. The parade route this year will see the floats travel from the corner of Green Street and Orange Grove Boulevard in Pasadena.
– Win or tie: NFC’s No. 1 seed and home-field advantage through NFC playoffs. Carolina routed Tampa Bay 38-10, while Denver edged San Diego 27-20 to win the AFC West title. “We know that we’re playing for a lot right now, but at the same point you just have to go out there and be ourselves”. We don’t have travel to a hostile environment.
Sugar Bowl: Treadwell, Kelly lead Ole Miss to win vs Oklahoma State
With time running out in the second quarter, Ole Miss pulled out another trick play near the Oklahoma State goal line. Prior to that, junior receiver Laquon Treadwell caught a pair of touchdowns from Kelly for gains of 34 and 10 yards.
The Falcons have finally got their act together, but it’s too little too late for a playoff berth.
Browns don’t know if Manziel made trip to Vegas
The Steelers didn’t have Le’Veon Bell for a wild-card game past year after the star back injured his knee in Week 17. The team announced the moves Sunday night after it fell 28-12 to the Pittsburgh Steelers in the season finale.
Jets – New York needs only to beat Buffalo on Sunday (1 p.m. ET) to clinch a wild-card spot in the AFC playoffs, at either the No. 5 or 6 seed.
The Jets need to win this game and they will return to the playoffs. Instead, the Browns followed their career path and lost again to the Broncos, 37-21, in the AFC title game.
Sunday night’s game between the Minnesota Vikings (10-5) and the Green Bay Packers (10-5), will determine the NFC North champion.
For the divisional round, NBC has the January 16 NFC game with second-seeded Arizona at 8:15 p.m., and FOX has the January 17 game involving top-seeded Carolina at 1 p.m. If they beat the Buffalo Bills, the Jets will be in the playoffs. The Steelers now need the Jets to lose and for themselves to win to get into the postseason.
The Jets, Steelers, Colts and Texans all kick off at 1 p.m. ET, so by the time the second slate of games roll around, the official field of playoff teams will nearly certainly be decided.
Ryan has plenty of friends in the Steel City now.
“We have an excited locker room in there and rightfully so”, Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said after his team survived three turnovers thanks to three touchdown passes from Ben Roethlisberger.
The Giants are home, they have Eli and Beckham and I think they’ll play hard for Tom Coughlin, in what might be his last game as head coach of the Giants. At the hotel beforehand, we watched the Bengals and Oilers play until it was time to leave for the Steelers game.
– Win: clinch AFC South and AFC’s No. 4 seed, and play next weekend as host to No. 5 wild-card seed, only if Houston loses, and all of Atlanta, Baltimore, Buffalo, Denver and Miami win – plus Oakland wins or ties and Pittsburgh wins or ties as long as both Oakland and Pittsburgh do not tie.
Houston avoided the headache of possibly having to look at eight different tiebreakers against the Colts by beating Jacksonville 30-6 to win the AFC South, making Indianapolis’ victory over Tennessee moot.
That question requires a great deal of nuanced answers but what it all boils down to is Pittsburgh did not win the division home games they needed to.
The Texans won the first match-up by 11 earlier this season but Blake Bortles threw for over 300 yards and the Jags led that game heading into the fourth quarter.
Seattle rebounded from last week’s loss at home against St. Louis with one of its most dominant victories of the season, winning big at Arizona.
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Sixth Seed: Seattle Seahawks (10-6) – It’s a simple scenario: If Packers beat Vikings, Seahawks climb to the fifth seed. The Packers beat the Vikings in Minnesota 30-13 last month. However, if Vikings can pull off an improbable win, the Seahawks stay at 6 seed.
