The final week of the 2025/26 regular season is upon us, and there’s a lot to still be decided as we think ahead to the NFL playoffs. Instead of previewing one of these games in detail, I decided to map out *how* you should schedule your weekend to keep up with all the action.

So obviously the stand-alone games are part of that, but I’ll also tell how you might want your quad box to look like – or if you even really need one. More importantly, for those three division-deciding matchups, I will share the key element(s) to pay attention to either side of the ball, including personnel/situational tendencies, how to attack their opponents, and what we can learn from they met the first time. Plus, I simply added a final score prediction for every game.

(I didn’t want to always add “tie” as an option, but obviously if a tie were to happen, that would put the teams involved half a game above/below others, depending on how they finish.)

Let’s get into the slate: