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The NFL does not use a fixed bracket playoff system, and there are no restrictions regarding teams from the same division matching up in any round. In the first round, dubbed the wild-card playoffs or wild-card weekend , the third-seeded division winner hosts the sixth-seed wild card, and the fourth seed hosts the fifth.
Due to the 2014 North American cold wave, the game was initially expected to be one of the coldest playoff games in NFL history. [7] But with a temperature of 5 °F (−15 °C) at kickoff time, it was warmer than the record −9 °F (−23 °C) set during the 1981 AFC Championship Game .
Beginning with the 1933 season, the NFL featured a championship game, played between the winners of its two divisions.In this era, if there was a tie for first place in the division at the end of the regular season, a one-game playoff was used to determine the team that would represent their division in the NFL Championship Game.
With 272 regular-season games now in the books, the NFL playoff picture is complete. Week 18 wound down with the Detroit Lions vanquishing the Minnesota Vikings 31-9 on "Sunday Night Football ...
The six teams who have definitely qualified for the playoffs are: 1. Detroit Lions (15-2) - won NFC North 2. Philadelphia Eagles (14-3) - won NFC East 3. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (10-7) - won NFC South 4.
Current NFC playoff picture. According to NFL.com, this is the current NFC playoff picture. In the playoffs: Detroit Lions (10-1) Philadelphia Eagles (9-2) Seattle Seahawks (6-5) Atlanta Falcons (6-5)
The 14-team playoff proposal remained tabled until December 2014, when no team in the NFC South could finish better than .500; Goodell stated that the league would vote on it at the March 2015 Owners' Meetings.
Wild Card playoffs: Divisional playoffs: Jan 4 – AT&T Stadium: A1 New England 28 Jan 11 – Lambeau Field: N1 Seattle 24 6 Detroit: 20 Super Bowl XLIX: 3 Dallas 21 3 Dallas: 24 Jan 18 – CenturyLink Field 2 Green Bay: 26 NFC: Jan 3 – Bank of America Stadium: 2 Green Bay 22 Jan 10 – CenturyLink Field: 1 Seattle 28* 5 Arizona: 16 NFC ...