Beat Bears and Five More Packers Playoff Prospects
To put it simply, defeating the Bears on Sunday would be the simplest route to the playoffs or the Packers. These are five additional choices.
GREEN BAY, Wisconsin: The Green Bay Packers will secure the last remaining NFC playoff place if they defeat the Chicago Bears.
It will be simpler to say than to do that. Under head coach Matt LaFleur, the Packers (8-8) are 9-0 versus the Bears, although Chicago has won four of its last five games.
Following his team’s crushing of the Vikings on Sunday night, LaFleur remarked, “We know it’s going to be a tremendous challenge.” When you compare Chicago from Week 1 to this point, I believe they have made as much progress as any other club. It’s obvious that they’ve performed really well lately—they’ve kind of gotten into a groove.
“We are aware that it will be a formidable task, that we will face their best effort, and that they would gladly do anything to eliminate us from the postseason.”
The New York Times computer model projects that the Packers’ chances of making the playoffs are 68 percent. That would rise to 100% in the event of a victory. If there was a loss, that would drop to 26%. Accordingly, the following games are also important: Tampa Bay (8-8) at Carolina (2-14), New Orleans (8-8) at home versus Atlanta (7-9), and Seattle (8-8) at Arizona (4-12).
These are the Packers’ sixth routes to the postseason.
One: Get in and win. As of Monday night, the Packers are, for the record, 3-point favourites at FanDuel Sportsbook.Earlier in the day, the queue was 3.5.
Two: Green Bay tie, Seattle loss or tie and New Orleans loss or tie.
Three: Green Bay tie, Seattle loss and Tampa Bay loss.
Four: Green Bay tie, Seattle tie and Tampa Bay loss or tie.
Five: Minnesota loss or tie and Seattle loss and Tampa Bay loss.
Six: Minnesota loss or tie and Seattle loss and New Orleans loss.
Notably, the Packers have a 72% probability of making the playoffs according to the algorithm at Playoff Status. In terms of percentages, it is fifty percent as the sixth seed (now ranked third in Detroit) and twenty-two percent as the seventh seed (now ranked second in Dallas).
The Rams (9-7) would need to lose against the 49ers (12-4), who have secured the top seed and won’t be using star running back Christian McCaffrey, in order to move up to No. 6.
