There’s still so much on the line in week 18 of the NFL season – seven teams are fighting for the final three playoff berths and other than the Packers having locked up home-field advantage, all the seeding will still be decided! Let’s try to figure this thing out!
(I forgot to mention that the Ravens also need the Patriots to beat the Dolphins, to keep their playoff chances alive.)
Tag Archives: NFL Predictions
NFL week 11 preview (2021-22):
We’re ten weeks into the NFL season and major upsets upsets have ruled the landscape. Which ones might be added to the list? Who can stay hot and win the big-time matchups of week 11?
NFL week 9 preview (2021-22):
I almost didn’t get this out before TNF, with the news about Aaron Rodgers forcing me to overhaul the whole thing a little bit, but here’s my preview of all the #NFLWeekNine games!
NFL week 6 preview (2021-22):
We’re back with the weekly preview series, looking at this sixth slate of the season! While one of the stand-alone games won’t anybody away, there’s a bunch of good ones throughout Sunday!
NFL week 4 preview (2021-22):
We’re back with another weekly preview video, breaking down this week four slate with key stats, personnel and schematic matchups, before putting out my prediction for every single game. We have a bunch of divisional games and storylines to discuss!
NFL week 3 preview (2021/22):
After recapping every week of the NFL season in detail last year, I thought about switching things up and previewing the upcoming slate from now. Let me know what you think of the format and which of my picks agree/disagree with!
Predicting the entire 2021 NFL season:
We are exactly a week away from the NFL kickoff game between the Cowboys and Buccaneers. So as I do every year, I predicted the three top candidates for every major award, like MVP, Defensive Player of the Year and so on. To go along with that (since I’m a football psycho), I went through the whole schedule and decided on the winner of every single game, considering bye weeks, travel schedule and of course how the teams match up against each other. The result is a list of the seven playoff teams in each conference, a prediction of every postseason round and ultimately who I have winning the Super Bowl.
My Excel sheet, where I filled out the entire schedule is at the very end, if you want to check it out or see where I have your team finishing at, if they’re not listed among the playoff squads.
Here’s how I have the season shaking out:
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NFL teams most likely to go from worst to first in 2020:
We have talked a lot about the draft, biggest remaining needs for every NFL team, some breakout candidates and other stuff, so let’s now get back to more of a big picture and look at some teams from an angle of where could they go next season. In this article, I am analyzing those teams that finished fourth in their division this past year and why they could win it in 2020 or land at the bottom once again, plus an outlook where I actually see them.
Of course much of this is about these eight teams and how much better or worse I feel about them than the general public, but it was heavily dependent on their three division rivals as well. The top half I could certainly see earn a playoff spot and surprise some people if everything goes right. After that a lot of my faith is more built around the lack of great competition and giving some hope to these respective fan bases. As the cliché goes – everybody is 0-0 right now.
NFL Playoff Predictions following week 11:
We are at a point of the NFL season where the playoff picture is really starting to form. Nine of the twelve teams that are currently in line for a spot in the postseason have won seven or more games, with both Wildcard teams in the NFC sitting at eight wins already. In the AFC there are far less true contenders one through six it seems like, but there are two elite squads at the very top.
With only six weeks left in the regular season, I decided to take a look at every team’s schedule (well, outside of the Bengals, Redskins and Dolphins), and predicted their final records. According to that, I put together my top six seeds from each conference, to see where they will end up as we close the year. While most of the teams mentioned are already en route to making the playoffs, I have quite a bit changing about the seeding.
Which losing teams can turn it around and who is done for the year?
Every year you have NFL teams failing to reach the expectations fans have for them in the offseason, while others start off slow and end up going on a run. Just last season you had two teams, who were coming off conference championship game appearances, miss the playoffs entirely in the Vikings and Jaguars. On the other hand, you had two AFC South teams in the Texans and Colts meeting in a matchup of 0-3 teams early on in the season, but then both putting together impressive stretches to finish with double-digit wins.
Because of that, I looked around the league for teams that have been disappointing so far and pointed out one squad, who I think still has hope to turn things around and another one, whose season is already over to me. I only picked teams at or below .500 record to do so of course. Three of these four were playoff teams last year, while another one might have just been the most hyped group in the entire league over the summer.
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