{"id":597350,"date":"2025-12-13T12:32:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/597350\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T12:32:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:32:14","slug":"afc-playoff-picture-who-buffalo-bills-fans-should-root-for-in-week-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/597350\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC Playoff Picture | Who Buffalo Bills fans should root for in Week 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miami Dolphins (6-7) at Pittsburgh Steelers (7-6) | Monday, Dec. 15 at 8:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Who to root for: Root for the Dolphins<\/p>\n<p>Why: This is projecting ahead a bit, but Week 18 could have big implications for the AFC East with the Bills-Jets and Dolphins-Patriots matchups. Assuming the Patriots haven&#8217;t clinched the AFC East by then, they would need to beat Miami in order to do so.<\/p>\n<p>A Miami win against the Steelers in Week 15 keeps the Dolphins in the playoff hunt, at least temporarily. Keeping Miami&#8217;s hopes alive for a playoff spot could be enough incentive for a competitive Week 18 battle in Foxborough.<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore Ravens (6-7) at Cincinnati Bengals (4-9) | Sunday, Dec. 14 at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Who to root for: Root for the Bengals<\/p>\n<p>Why: At the No. 9 seed and second place in their division, the Ravens have a 27% chance at making the playoffs. A loss drops those odds to 13%.<\/p>\n<p>Should Pittsburgh maintain its lead in the AFC North, the Ravens could still have a slim shot at making the Wild Card if one of the three current teams stumble. A Ravens loss to Cincy ensures the Bills will finish the regular season ahead of Baltimore in record and head-to-head tie-breaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Dolphins (6-7) at Pittsburgh Steelers (7-6) | Monday, Dec. 15 at 8:15 p.m. Who to root for:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[215,214,53,2086,7,6,36519],"class_list":{"0":"post-597350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-bills","9":"tag-buffalo","10":"tag-buffalo-bills","11":"tag-buffalobills","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-who-to-root-for"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115712278137477993","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}