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Mike Daniels Color Rush Jersey , to be sure, but there is still a feasible path for them to make a run at the postseason. However, much of the help that the team needs to pull for down the stretch will depend on the result of tonight’s game between the Minnesota Vikings and Seattle Seahawks.Teams around the NFC will be watching that contest closely. Those two squads sit in the Wild Card spots right now and will stay there regardless of the result of tonight’s game, but the winner will get a massive leg up on a postseason berth. The loser? They’ll have Packers fans and supporters of several other teams around the NFC pulling for them to lose a few more games down the stretch.The Packers’ biggest ask now is to beat the Chicago Bears next week. Control what you can control, and let the chips fall how they may. It has worked for the Green and Gold in the past, so why not again in 2018?Here is where the situation lies in the NFC after 14 weeks (minus one game).Current Playoff Spots1. New Orleans Saints (11-2)2. Los Angeles Rams (11-2)3. Chicago Bears (9-4)4. Dallas Cowboys (8-5)5. Seattle Seahawks (7-5)6. Minnesota Vikings (6-5-1)The Bears’ win over the Rams dropped Los Angeles back into a tie with the Saints for the best record in the NFC, and New Orleans gets the top spot thanks to their head-to-head victory. The rest of these six spots shakes out in a very straightforward manner.There is one interesting note, however. The Seahawks host the Vikings on Monday Night Football this evening, but regardless of which team wins, those two will remain in the two Wild-Card spots. The winner will hold the 5th seed while the loser will sit in 6th place.In the hunt7. Carolina Panthers (6-7)8. Philadelphia Eagles (6-7)9. Washington (6-7)10. Green Bay Packers (5-7-1)11. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (5-8)12. New York Giants (5-8)13. Detroit Lions (5-8)For the Packers, it’s pretty clear what they have to do to make the postseason. The Bears’ victory put the division out of reach, but winning out would put Green Bay at 8-7-1 and still with a chance to make it in as a Wild Card team.On Sunday, Carolina, Philadelphia, Washington, and Tampa Bay all lost https://www.thepackersfanshop.com/Jamaal-Williams-Jersey , which gives the Packers a bunch of needed help. Now they need the following to find a way to get in:A: Packers must win outB: Panthers, Eagles, and Washington each lose at least one gameC: Either Seahawks or Vikings lose three more gamesThe three 6-7 teams listed in B all have plenty of tough contests remaining. Washington and Philly will play in week 17, effectively delivering one-third of the necessary losses before the game is even played. The Eagles also have tough games against the Rams and Texans in the next two weeks, while Washington plays at the Jaguars and Titans with a third or fourth-string quarterback. Finally, Carolina faces the Saints twice in 14 days. Don’t worry about B — that part will almost certainly work out.With Seattle and Minnesota playing tonight, one of them will lose one of the necessary three games in C. Therefore, the Packers must cheer for whichever team loses that game to lose two of their final three contests as well. The schedules are favorable for both of those teams, however, as they have the following opponents remaining after tonight’s game:Seattle: at 49ers, vs. Chiefs, vs. CardinalsMinnesota: vs. Dolphins, at Lions, vs. BearsDivisional games can get crazy, so you never know, but each team should be favored in two of their final three Dean Lowry Jersey , making that — and the Packers’ game in Chicago next week — the biggest barriers to Green Bay making a surprise playoff appearance.As for the 5-8 teams, there are still ways that each of those three could make it in as a Wild Card at 8-8. That would just involve the loser of Seattle-Minnesota losing out over their final three and getting help from all of the teams in between. However, it’s still mathematically possible for all three of those teams.Out of the chase14. Atlanta Falcons (4-9)15. Arizona Cardinals (3-10)16. San Francisco 49ers (3-10)The Packers did not officially end the Falcons’ playoff hopes on Sunday, but we’re including them here anyway. Mathematically there’s a possibility they could get to 7-9 and sneak ahead of the loser of SEA-MIN, but it’s the slimmest glimmer of hope for that to happen and all of the teams above to fall below or even with Atlanta. One wrong game the rest of the way and it’s toast. Meanwhile, Arizona and San Francisco are still even for the #1 pick with Oakland, thanks to wins by the two Bay Area teams on Sunday. Neither the Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears weren’t playing on Sunday. However, unlike in most recent years, when the reigning Super Bowl champions would host the opening game of the following NFL season, it appears that the league has different plans for 2019.This will be the league’s 100th season, something that was the subject of a rather entertaining commercial during Super Bowl LIII. As a result, the league has designs on featuring its oldest rivalry instead in the opening game:In 2018, the Packers and Bears got the first Sunday Night Football game of the year in week one. That game ended up earning the NFL’s Moment of the Year in Saturday’s NFL Honors ceremony. Let’s just hope that in this coming season’s opener, Aaron Rodgers’ knee doesn’t get messed up and he can just beat the Bears normally. Of course, those two teams have played each other 198 times, including two playoff games Kentrell Brice Color Rush Jersey , which makes it the most-played rivalry in pro football. It would be a fitting start to a historic season, particularly since the Bears are coming off a division title and the Packers are hoping for a bounce-back year under new head coach Matt LaFleur.Now here are the rest of your curds for today, featuring some discussions about last night’s awful, awful Super Bowl, which saw the Patriots beat the Rams 13-3.Packers running back Aaron Jones guarantees Super Bowl berth in 2019 | Packers WireJones has seen what other running backs have done with Matt LaFleur around, and he's excited about it. He's so excited, in fact, that he indeed guaranteed that the Packers will be in next year's Super Bowl in Miami.MT5: Matt LaFleur is off and running | Packers.comPackers president/CEO Mark Murphy took some questions this week, and as usual there's not much to report. However, he does say that he's disappointed that the Packers haven't played a road game in London yet, and he expects the basic financial structure of the NFL to remain the same under the next CBA.Super Bowl 2019 results: 7 reasons that was one of the most boring ever - SBNation.comWe hope you had some good food and company last night, because pretty much everything relating to the game itself -- except for the drama around how long the national anthem lasted -- was a dud.Sean McVay: 'I didn't do enough for us' in SB LIII loss - NFL.comAll that motion and creativity before the snap doesn't mean much if you never actually hand the football off to the motion man. Not to mention the fact that the Rams didn't convert a third down until after halftime. It was a brutal performance from everyone on the normally-explosive Rams offense, and McVay rightly takes most of the blame.Minnesotans Embrace Warm Weather In Wake Of Polar Vortex – WCCO | CBS MinnesotaI'm sure the same headline was written about Wisconsin as well.