Playoff Picture After Week 5 (One Dozen to Go)

Week 5

NFC

First Round Bye
1) Lions (5) (SOV .420 > Packers .400)
2) 49'ers (3) (Conf Winning % .750 > Saints .666)

Division Winners
3) Saints (7) (Winning % .800 > Redskins .750)
4) Redskins (2) (Winning % .750 > Giants .600)

Wild Cards
5) Packers (1) (Winning % 1.00 > Giants .600)
6) Giants (6) (Conf winning % .600 > Buccaneers .500)

The Rest in Order:
7) Buccaneers (4) (Winning % .600 > Cowboys .500)
8) Cowboys (8) (Winning % .500 > Seahawks .400)
9) Seahawks (11) (Conf winning % .500 > Bears .400)
10) Bears (9) (Head to Head win over Falcons)
11) Falcons (10) (Winning % .400 > Vikings .200)
12) vikings (15) (Conf winning % .333 > Eagles .250)
13) Eagles (13) (Conf winning % .250 > Cardinals .200)
14) Cardinals (12) (Conf winning % .200 > Panthers .000)
15) Panthers (14)(Winning % .200 > Rams .000)
16) Rams (16)


AFC

First Round Bye
1) Bills (2) (head to Head win over Patriots; SOV .500 > Chargers .200)
2) Chargers (4) (Winning % .800 > Ravens .750)

Division Winners
3) Ravens (3) (Winning % .750 > Texans .600)
4) Texans (1) (Divisional % 1.00 > Titans .000)

Wild Cards
5) Patriots (6) (Winning % .800 > Bengals .600)
6) Bengals (7) (Conference winning % .750 > Raiders .600)

The rest in order:
7) Raiders (8) (Conference winning % .600 > Steelers .500)
8) Steelers (11) (Head to Head win over Titans)
9) Titans (5) (Winning % .600 > Browns .500)
10) Browns (9) (Winning % .500 > Chiefs .400)
11) Chiefs (14) (Conference winning % .333 > Jets .250)
12) Jets (10) (Winning % .400 > Jaguars .200)
13) Jaguars (12) (Conference Winning % .333 > Broncos .250)
14) Broncos (13) (Winning % .200 > Dolphins .000)
15) Dolphins (16) (SOS .675 > Colts .540)
16) Colts (15)


Blame the difference in Strength of Victory on the Cardinals losing to the viklings.

49ers at Detroit this week. That will be an interesting one. 49ers have been playing great defense. Giving up only 15.6 PPG.

Stop Megatron and figure out how to block that front 4. 2 things easier said than done. Regardless of records come week 12, that game on Thanksgiving is going to be tough as hell.

If the season ended today, only 2 out of last year's 6 NFC playoff teams would make it.

You may not agree with my rating but here is a look at the remaining schedule.

Packers
Easy - Rams, viklings(2), Chiefs
Medium - Lions, Buccaneers, Raiders, Giants
Difficult - Chargers, Bears, Lions(Thanksgiving)
Strength of Schedule Remaining .527
Combined record of remaining opponents 29-26

Lions
Easy - Broncos, viklings
Medium - Falcons, Bears, Panthers, Raiders
Difficult - Packers(2), Chargers, Saints, 49'ers
Strength of Schedule Remaining .580
Combined record of remaining opponents 31-24

Tough to win by 11 and lose homefield advantage and the Division. Week 5 is brutal.

All I know is I hope Buluga and Clifton get back before Thanksgiving. I hope they get one week of game time to get back in the flow before playing Det front four, I hate seeing ARod get run at. Also Megatron is a beast, but Det has a very good pass protecting line. Beating them will be the key to stopping Stafford to CJ.

Also It is amazing to see us jumping from 1st to 5th while still undefeated. But we still control our own destiny.