According to ESPN Analytics, with a win, Detroit’s playoff chances improve to 73 percent. However, with a loss, they plummet to 42 percent. As for LA’s odds of securing the NFC’s top seed? Currently 46 percent, they’d jump to 60 with a win and fall to 27 in defeat.
Watching the West & the Rest
Not that they can afford to look ahead, but the Rams’ most important remaining game is Thursday in Seattle. Win that one, spike the odds of winning the West. Falter, and it could get complicated.
The Seahawks’ (10-3) only loss since Week 5 is here in LA. In Week 15, they somehow get 44-year-old Phillip Rivers and the Colts?
Then San Francisco (9-4) will travel to Indianapolis next week! This Sunday, and coming off a bye, they’ll look to collect a 10th win against the lowly Titans (2-11).
Green Bay (9-3-1) is now the leader of the NFC North, having won four straight and toppling the Bears most recently. The Packers will finish with three of their final four on the road: at Denver, at Chicago, vs. the Ravens, and at Minnesota.
Chicago (9-4) is home to Cleveland before this closing stretch: vs. Packers, at San Francisco, vs. Lions.