One of the biggest stories of the NFL season has been the play of Joe Flacco. Flacco’s NFL career seemed to be over after spending most of the season as a free agent. However, the Cleveland Browns gave Flacco one last chance due to multiple injuries to their starting quarterbacks. Flacco made the most of […]
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NFL Week 18. The stage is set for an epic finale in the AFC. Will the Texans win the South? Can the Colts defend their turf? In the AFC, four teams have clinched playoff spots. The Baltimore Ravens, Miami Dolphins, Cleveland Browns and Kansas City Chiefs are in. There are four teams in the hunt […]
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Week 14 is in the books. The rollercoaster is in motion. Contenders and pretenders have shown their cards. The 49ers are the first team to clinch the playoffs in 2023. Last year, the Eagles were the first team to clinch a playoff berth last season and went to the Super Bowl. Two years back, the […]
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Week 13 is in the books. Don’t blink. The horrendous first half of the season Green Bay Packers have now found a way into the final wild-card spot. The Rams are rising and the Seahawks are falling. The Dawgpound may be getting another stray after next week. The Texans are on the outside looking in. […]
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Week 12 is in the books. The Eagles are in the driver’s seat. They were the first team to clinch a playoff berth last season and went to the Super Bowl. Two years back, the Green Bay Packers clinched first, yet lost in the divisional round, at home. Philadephia will have to wait a week […]
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Week 10 is in the books. The next two weeks have a ton of division matchups. Both the AFC and NFC conferences have competitive divisions with strong teams. No clear dominance of one conference over the other is evident from the standings. The NFC East and AFC North remain tightly contested, with the AFC North […]
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The midway point of the season is in the books. Week 9 is complete out of the grueling 17-game NFL schedule. Now comes the time when everyone starts talking about the “what ifs.” Which tie-breaking procedure means more? Head-to-head, division, common, conference, and strength of victory may all come into play this year, as there […]
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Week 8 of the NFL season is in the books. Let’s take a look at the scenario if the NFL playoffs started today. Bye teams stepped up this week and started winning, going 5-1. The one loss was from the Texans, who played against the Panthers and were also coming off the bye week. No […]
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Week four of the NFL season is in the books. Let’s take a look at the scenario if the NFL playoffs started today. Teams that begin 4-0 are as close to a lock to make it. 3-1 has just as good a chance. Not so much for 0-4 as only one team in history has […]
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Don’t get too excited or disappointed. Or maybe you should. According to stats from the NFL, 3-0 teams have around a three-in-four chance to make the playoffs. At 2-1, you have a little over half of a chance to earn a spot. 1-2 makes it a third of the time and 0-3 teams have a […]
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Don’t get too excited or disappointed. Or maybe you should. 0-2 teams traditionally have about a 10% chance of making the playoffs. 0-3 drops down to 1-2%. With the playoffs recently expanded to include seven teams, those chances have risen, but not by much. Let’s take a look at the NFL playoff picture if for […]
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Well, my prediction that the NFC West was the Seahawks to win isn’t panning out exactly how I thought it would. I thought the 49ers would struggle with rookie quarterback Brock Purdy, but thus far, they haven’t lost a step. Meanwhile, the Seahawks, who I thought would win four of their final five games, are now […]
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Week 13 of the NFL season is almost in the books, and who would’ve thought that the NFC West would come down to the Seattle Seahawks and the San Francisco 49ers? The 49ers are 8-4, having won five straight, while the Seahawks sit at 7-5. The Los Angeles Rams have fallen to 3-9, and the […]
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Belly Up’s own, Kaleb McChesney, wrote a piece on the AFC East and their most significant question mark heading into the 2022-23 season. Looking at every NFL team, there’s bound to be at least one aspect of their roster with more questions than answers. And since Kaleb chose to cover the AFC East, I figured […]
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