NFL 2024-2025 Season

(12-12-2024 20:59 )Regenerated Wrote:  Which games can decide play off places this weekend?

Chiefs, Bills, Lions, & Eagles have already clinched Playoff spots.

Texans, Steelers, Packers & Vikings can clinch Playoff spots in week 15

Texans can clinch the AFC South with a win over the Dolphins + a Colts loss or tie against the Broncos.

Steelers : 1. - can clinch a Playoff berth with a win or tie against the Eagles. 2. - Miami loss +Colts loss.

Packers can clinch a Playoff spot with a win over the Seahawks + Atlanta loss or tie + 49ers vs Rams tie.

Vikings : 1. - win or tie against the Bears. 2. - Rams loss or tie with the 49ers. 3. - Seattle loss or tie vs the Packers.

^^ Wow - plenty of detail, I think that's all the "ups and downs" covered.

Thanks Boomer

49ers 3 - 3 Rams - Halftime Report
With the Rams scoring 44 points & the Niners 38 last week, both teams have so far cancelled each other out. Moody kicked a 53 yard field goal, & the Rams scored late in the half when Karty was successful from 48 yards.
Great to see Greenlaw back with 5 tackles & 1 assist. 49ers 108 total yards on offense with 5 1st downs, Rams 89 yards & only 23 yards passing with 4 1st downs. 49ers have punted 6 times & the Rams 5.
Rain has been falling making ball handling challenging.

49ers 6 - 12 Rams - Final
THE niners kicked the go-ahead field goal in the 3rd quarter but the Rams responded with 3 more in the 4th. Purdy was intercepted late in the 4th down by 3 as the moved into field goal territory. the Rams went up by 6 giving the Niners just 11 seconds to work some magic, they had none & not enough this season. The Rams now have a 50% chance of a Playoff spot with the Niners a laughable 1% chance, which would require to win out & a lot of help. They are done & have been for weeks.

I know that San Fran have a lot of injuries in their team, but with all their vast offence firepower all they can manage is 2 field goals.

^^ I believe that the stat was something like 42 games missed so far this season by Pro Bowl Players. There's only so much you can do, CMC has upset the balance of the offence, Aiyuk's contract holdout & subsequent injury has resulted in Deebo being less effective.

They have lost 3 games that they had in the bag, win 2 of those & the Playoff picture would look completely different, small margins The NFL is competitive enough to not allow teams to slip up & be complacent, these errors will get capitalized upon.

Purdy has looked both brilliant & poor at different times, the only positive that I can draw from this is that his expected big contract will perhaps not be as big as many first thought, allowing the franchise to hold on to one or 2 more key players.

Playoff Picture Week 15

Texans 20 - 12 Dolphins
Texans clinch the AFC South with their win & the Broncos 31 -13 Colts result.

Eagles 27 - 13 Steelers
The Steelers got the 2 other results they required but failed to beat the Eagles in order to clinch a playoff berth'

Seahawks 13 - 30 Packers
The Packers must now wait to see if the Raiders can cause an upset & beat the Falcons in order to clinch a playoff berth.

The Seahawks loss means that the Vikings have now clinched a playoff berth.

Lions 42 - 48 Bills
A fun game for those who enjoy offence, with 12 touchdowns in all from the leagues top 2 scoring teams. After the Bills jumped out to a 14-0 1st quarter lead the Lions were playing catch-up for the remainder of the contest which resulted in them almost abandoning the run with just 15 rushes & just 48 yards, the Bills had almost twice the carries & just short of 200 yards, Cook had 100+ yards & 2 td's, Allen added 2 more td's to his seasons tally. Both team topped 500 yards total offense with the unbalanced nature of the Lions play calling leading to Goff completing 38 passes from 59 attempts for 494 yards & 5 td's, this performance was the polar opposite to his seasons very high completion rate. Amon-Ra St. Brown had a big game with 14 receptions for 193 yards & a td.
Despite the score line this was an improved performance by the Bill defence after last weeks loss to the Rams, they did manage to inflict 3 sacks on Goff.

^^ A bizarre game, in many ways, I felt with Detroit unusually struggling to make the passes plus defensive players seemingly slow to react. Very unlike Detroit, but fair play to Buffalo.

As you say though, still a fun game for people who like crazy moments in offensive plays.

Week 16
Live on Sky Sports NFL

TNF
Broncos @ Chargers 01.15

Saturday
Texans @ Chiefs 18.00
Steelers @ Ravens 21.30

Sunday
Eagles @ Commanders 18.00
Vikings @ Seahawks 21.05
Buccs @ Cowboys 01.20

MNF
Saints @ Packers 01.15