NFL playoff scenarios: Simple, yet complex
Giants coach Tom Coughlin knows that if his team doesn’t beat the Cowboys today, New York not only won’t accomplish its preseason goal of winning the NFC East, it won’t even make the playoffs.
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Reduced to its simplest, the NFL playoff races come down to this: Cincinnati, Denver, Dallas and the New York Giants must win. Then it gets complicated, because the Giants host the Cowboys in prime time, and the loser is out.
Even that, though, is easy to decipher compared to the chase for the final AFC wild card.
Just the way the NFL wants it.