Turnover is a fact of life in the NFL. Even as the league added two playoff teams to make a 14-team bracket in 2020, five of the 12 teams that made it to the postseason in 2019 didn't make a return trip this season. That's a group that includes the 49ers, who were the top seed in the NFC and its representatives in Super Bowl LIV, and the Patriots, who had made it to the playoffs in 17 of the previous 19 seasons. The Texans, Vikings and Eagles also failed to make it back into January, with two of those three not even coming particularly close.
Predicting the 2021 NFL playoff bracket: 14 teams that will make next season's field, including the Bucs, Packers and Jaguars
