After the Philadelphia Eagles suffered a loss on Sunday night, the Minnesota Vikings are now the top seed in the NFC’s current playoff picture.
For the first time since Week 2, the Philadelphia Eagles were on the losing side of the scoreboard on Sunday night when they fell 24-10 to the Seattle Seahawks. With the loss, the Eagles’ 2017 record still remains impressive at 10-2, but their positioning in the NFC’s current playoff picture took a hit.
Thanks to Philadelphia losing on Sunday, the Minnesota Vikings would now be the top seed in the NFC if the playoffs were to begin after Week 13. Despite having the same record this year at 10-2, the Vikings have the current edge over the Eagles due to the winning percentage of the opponents each team has defeated this season.
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If Minnesota can manage to hold onto their current positioning in the playoff picture, they will have home-field advantage throughout the postseason. So basically, whoever represents the NFC in Super Bowl 52 at Minnesota’s U.S. Bank Stadium would have to win at least one game in the venue on their journey to the NFL’s biggest game of the year if the Vikings entered the playoffs as the conference’s top seed.
For Minnesota, they have been taking care of business for the past two months and have now won eight games in a row after defeating the Atlanta Falcons 14-9 on Sunday. With the win, the Vikings are now in position to capture the NFC’s number one seed in the postseason for the first time since 1998 (that Minnesota team was pretty decent).
Next week’s schedule has both the Vikings and Eagles matching up with a common opponent (Minnesota faces the Carolina Panthers while Philadelphia takes on the Los Angeles Rams), the results of which could come into play when the official seeding in the NFC playoffs is set in stone at the end of the year.
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Only four weeks of the regular season remain in the Vikings’ quest to become the first ever NFL team to play in a Super Bowl (and win) at their home stadium. Sunday’s results made that thought even closer to becoming a reality.