This is how the landscape was changed towards the NFL playoffs

One game on Friday and three more on Saturday leave a different picture on the way to the NFL playoffs in the middle of week 16

After the first four games of the Week 16 from NFL, – on unusual days before NFL, Friday and Saturday – has changed the playoff landscape for both conferences.

Here we take a look at what happened after these four games:

The Vikings caused the Saints some headaches in the recent late season, but the second chance came. New Orleans took advantage of the great performance of Alvin Kamara, which equaled a league record with six thrilling touchdowns to thrash Minnesota with 52 to 33. As a result, the Saints they tied for the division title for the fourth year in a row. At the same time they eliminated the Vikings mathematically from the postseason game of the NFL.

We knew that Lions they would have great difficulty in attacking the Bucs, without counting on his acting head coach Darrell Bevellwithout your defensive coordinator Cory Undlin, and without a handful of attendees because of COVID-19 protocols. What we didn’t know was how bad it would look Detroit during the game, on both sides of the ball. To make matters worse, the Lions lost due to ankle injury Matthew Stafford at the start of a match that also ended in a beating, 47-7. Tom Brady required to play only the first half, and with the win, the Bucs caused their return to the late season NFL for the first time since 2007.

San Francisco came to this game eliminated from the playoff twist, however Arizona he was in control of his destiny … even before losing 20-12 at home. Now the Cardinals they need help. The Cards should win in week 17 against Los Angeles Rams, visit and wait for the Jacksonville Jaguars O Green Bay Packers beat the Chicago bears, who are only half a game behind Arizona and with the selection criterion in favor in the NFC. These are the kind of results that lighten a season of oblivion, in the case of speaking Niners, who will not be able to defend their title against the NFC from last year.

The most exciting game – not necessarily the best played – was reserved to the end, with the Dolphins and Raiders fight to stay in the heat of the playoff race. Miami took it out again Tua Tagovailoa of the party, handing over the reins Ryan Fitzpatrick, a move that would pay dividends in the least expected way. In the last stretch of a very close match, Las Vegas took advantage of a very dubious defensive pass against interference Nelson Agholor to be at the target of the end zone. The box Jon Gruden he played to run out of time and score a field goal that would get them 25-23, rather than trying to extend the lead to a touchdown. With only 18 seconds left on the game clock, after the field goal of the Raiders, Fitzpatrick hit a long pass to Mack Hollins who received a punishment for putting on the mask Fitzpatrick, which caused Dolphins with the unusual chance of winning with his own field goal, which he linked moments later Jason Sanders. With victory, Miami approached the playoffs, while the Raiders they were mathematically eliminated from the match because they couldn’t maintain an advantage for 18 seconds.