It all comes down to next week.
Week 17 of the NFL season was frontloaded with games on Christmas and Saturday, but Sunday’s slate carried plenty of playoff implications.
And the clear winners were the Minnesota Vikings, who controlled their NFC North rivals, the Green Bay Packers, for most of the game, setting up a massive, winner-take-all showdown against the Detroit Lions for first place in the NFC.
And then, in the AFC, the Indianapolis Colts sputtered out of the field with a disappointing loss against a New York Giants team that entered Sunday with the worst record in the league.