{"id":648195,"date":"2026-01-02T13:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T13:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/648195\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T13:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T13:43:14","slug":"the-draft-picks-playoff-spots-jobs-nfl-week-18-will-determine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/648195\/","title":{"rendered":"The draft picks, playoff spots, jobs NFL Week 18 will determine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A chaotic NFL regular season has resulted in several high-stakes games on the league\u2019s final weekend of action before the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/29\/sports\/the-jets-hold-a-ph-d-in-dreadful-and-the-numbers-dont-lie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">for New York fans<\/a>, though, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/30\/sports\/giants-future-might-not-be-as-dismal-as-2025-suggests\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">neither team is in the hunt<\/a> for a final postseason spot.<\/p>\n<p>This year marks the 12th time since the Giants won Super Bowl XLVI that both of New York\u2019s NFL franchises missed the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, though, here\u2019s a look at what will be decided this weekend:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A chaotic NFL regular season has resulted in several high-stakes games on the league\u2019s final weekend of action&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8213,7,56,255,6,15,84,7195,9,3248],"class_list":{"0":"post-648195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-beyond-the-back-page","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-new-york-giants","11":"tag-new-york-jets","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-nfl-draft","14":"tag-nfl-playoffs","15":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115825803614634850","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648195","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=648195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}