After beating the Detroit Lions on Thanksgiving Day, the Green Bay Packers largely control their own playoff fate. With two games against the current NFC North-leading Chicago Bears still to come, Green Bay is in a good position to take over the top spot in the division, as well as potentially go into the playoffs as the No. 1 seed.
The result that sticks out is the 40-40 tie against the Dallas Cowboys. A win in that game would have put the Packers at 9-3, while a loss would've had them at 8-4. The obvious impact is that this influences playoff seeding, as division and conference positioning is based first on record, specifically win percentage, and then by head-to-head results among other tiebreakers.