The home stretch of the 2023 NFL regular season is nigh. No more Saturdays off for the pros. No more bye weeks – aside from the two teams that advance to the playoffs but earn home-field advantage. And almost no more margin for error if you’re one of those clubs trying to qualify for postseason, especially among those cluster of squads currently sitting on six or seven wins – which is nearly half the league (13 teams).
Almost every matchup has significant playoff ramifications. Saturday’s entire tripleheader – Vikings-Bengals, Steelers-Colts, Broncos-Lions – feels like a wild-card weekend trailer. The old NFC Central ‘Battle of the Bays’ (Buccaneers at Packers) is back and significant with a pair of 6-7 outfits trying to keep their projected postseason berths. The AFC’s (currently) top-seeded Baltimore Ravens head to Jacksonville to take on the Jaguars in a pairing of division leaders. And the Philadelphia Eagles hope to end their two-game losing streak against the spiraling Seahawks at Seattle in the first-ever game flexed into the ‘Monday Night Football’ slot.
But, naturally, all eyes will be on the Dallas Cowboys (again), ‘America’s Team’ headed to Orchard Park, New York, with a win-and-in playoff-clinching scenario. But they’ll have to go through a hot, but desperate, Buffalo Bills squad mired in 11th place in the AFC … yet only a few breaks from reclaiming first place in the AFC East.
What will the fallout look like? Our experts make their picks:
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