NFL Playoff Standings after week 5 (1 Viewer)

[rzrback77]

This is the playoff ranking in each conference after five weeks, not quite one third of the season. Please provide opinions of teams that you anticipate dropping back or rallying forward to make the playoffs.

1. AFC North 12-8 with +43 point differential
   
2. AFC West 12-8 with +36 point differential
   
3. AFC East 8-12 with -17 point differential
   
4. AFC South 5-15 with -129 point differential
   

1. NFC West 13-7 with +79 point differential
   
2. NFC South 12-8 with +66 point differential
   
3. NFC East 9-11 with -24 point differential
   
4. NFC North 9-11 with -54 point differential
   

AFC Playoff Rank

1. Chargers
   
2. Ravens
   
3. Bills
   
4. Titans
   
5. Bengals
   
6. Raiders
   
7. Broncos 
   
8. Browns
   

NFC Playoff Rank

1. Cardinals
   
2. Cowboys
   
3. Bucs
   
4. Packers
   
5. Rams
   
6. Bears
   
7. Panthers
   
8. Saints
   

 

[rzrback77]

For the AFC, I see the top four holding their division leads, but expect that the Bengals and Raiders to drop out of the playoffs. The Chiefs will climb back in if their defense and offensive line can improve. The Broncos could stay in the fight to the end of the season, possibly with the Patriots.

For the NFC, I think that the Rams will overtake the Cardinals for the division, but the Cardinals to make the wild card. I think that the Saints and Vikings could overtake the Bears and Panthers spots.

 

[wgoldsph]

The titans are a bad team that will win a bad division, like a slightly better Nfc east from last year.   It sucks, because it means one of the chiefs, broncos, or Browns won't get in and they're all deserving.  As is the current afc division leaders should all find a way into the playoffs.  Vegas will crater after this week and the Bengals feel like an outlier, but may find themselves in a wildcard.  Don't buy the pats or the shell of big Ben.

In the NFC, first of all what an amazing job by that panthers coaching staff making Sam Darnold look like an actual NFL player for those first few weeks.  They deserve a playoff birth just for that.  Unfortunately no amount of tossing picks at defense will change the fact that Darnold is a scrub and can't win games for them.  The saints have the same problem with Jamis, but Payton is doing everything he can to make sure that his qb doesn't throw the ball and it's that strategy which will push them into the playoffs.  Bears will fall off, and Matt Nagy will finally receive his walking papers.  Chicago will riot in the streets like they've just won the superbowl.  Vikings will take advantage and get in the wild card, only to lose in the first round, saving Zimmer his job, and Minnesota will stay inside and dream of warm weather and coaching changes.  The tops of the divisions will stay playoff relevant, although the cardinals and Rams will vie for the west title.