The NFL's easiest and most difficult remaining schedules

With 10 weeks of the season in the books, a decent amount has been more or less determined. The San Francisco 49ers, New Orleans Saints, Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings and Seattle Seahawks are very likely to make the NFC playoffs, while the New England Patriots, Baltimore Ravens, Houston Texans and Kansas City Chiefs would have to really collapse to not at least make the AFC tournament. For other teams (like the Philadelphia Eagles and Dallas Cowboys), the remaining schedule might be the difference-maker in terms of who wins a division or who gets the final wild-card berth. Using the machine learning capabilities of AWS, which helps build our PFFELO metric, we discuss the five hardest and five easiest schedules in the NFL for the remaining seven weeks.

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