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New England
Has clinched playoff berth; can clinch division with:
1. New England win or Miami loss.
2. New England tie and Miami loss.
Can clinch first-round bye with:
1. New England win and Oakland loss or tie.
Miami
Has clinched playoff berth; can clinch division with:
1. Miami win and New England loss or tie.
2. Miami tie and New England loss.
Can clinch first-round bye with:
1. Miami win and New England loss or tie.
New York Jets
Can clinch playoff berth with:
1. N.Y. Jets win or tie.
2. Seattle loss or tie.
Pittsburgh
Has clinched division title, a first-round bye and home-field advantage throughout
playoffs.
Baltimore
Can clinch playoff berth with:
1. Baltimore win or tie.
2. N.Y. Jets loss or Seattle loss or tie.
Oakland
Has clinched division; can clinch first-round bye with:
1. Oakland win and a New England win or a Miami loss.
Seattle
Can clinch playoff berth with:
1. Seattle win and N.Y. Jets or Baltimore loss.
Philadelphia
Has clinched division.
Chicago
Has clinched a playoff berth; can clinch division title and a first-round bye with:
1. Chicago win or tie.
Can clinch home-field advantage throughout playoffs with:
1. Chicago win plus a St. Louis loss.
Green Bay
Has clinched playoff berth; can clinch division title and first-round bye with:
1. Green Bay win and a Chicago loss.
Tampa Bay
Has clinched playoff berth.
St. Louis
Has clinched division title and first-round bye; can clinch home-field advantage
throughout playoffs with:
1. St. Louis win or a Chicago loss or tie.
San Francisco
Has clinched playoff berth.
For an expanded look at the race for the postseason, see the PFW print
edition's page, "The Stretch Run," including these additional features:
"Momentum meter: Who's hot and who's not"; "Spotlight on: Oakland
Raiders," which is a Q&A with Joel Buchsbaum on the Raiders; and "If the
season ended today," how the contenders in each conference would rank if playoff
seedings were determined now. All this and more is in the current print edition (Vol. XVI,
No. 26) of Pro Football Weekly, dated Jan. 7, 2002, on sale at newsstands and bookstores
across the country. Or you can subscribe online to PFW's print
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