32 things you learned from football Week 16: Some teams get their Christmas gifts early.
The NFL’s schedulers made sure that we had a lot of games to choose from on Christmas Day. The biggest game of Week 16—and maybe the whole season—was saved for Christmas night.
After opening gifts and eating, we can turn our attention to the game between the No. 1 teams, the Baltimore Ravens (NFL) and the San Francisco 49ers.
Still, Christmas Eve as well as Christmas Eve Eve had a lot of action and a lot of postseason movement.
They showed us who the winners and those who lost were on Christmas Eve. The Ravens as well as 49ers are currently in first place, but it will be hard for them to stay that way all through the trip to Las Vegas.
In week 16 of the 2021 NFL season, the playoff races across the two conferences became more clear.
It kept going on Sunday, when the Buccaneers beat the Panthers upon the road to win the NFC South.
The Titans moved closer to winning the AFC South title with a success over the Niners on Thursday night.
On Christmas Day, the Packers beat the Browns in a big game, and the Colts put on a great show against a Cards team that looked like it was going in the wrong way.
Even though the Bengals along with Bills didn’t claim anything, they both won big in their divisions, which moved them closer to both the playoffs and their division crowns.
The Bengals’ Joe Burrow threw for 525 yards and four scores, which blew away the Ravens’ defense.
They beat the Chargers by scoring 41 points thanks to their defense, and they held off the Lions, whose were trying to get their third win.
In other games, the Eagles beat the Giants badly in Philadelphia, and the Rams beat the Vikings to secure a playoff spot, or the Jets sneaked past the Jaguars, which helped Jacksonville’s bid for the top pick in the draft.
The Bears beat the Seahawks after falling behind, and Nick Foles was their quarterback. The Raiders beat the Broncos, which was a big win for their playoff hopes.
When the Raiders lost, the Cowboys locked up the NFC East title. On Sunday night, they beat Washington badly.
During the afternoon games, the Chiefs beat the Steelers easily to win the AFC West title. Our NFL Nation writers respond with what they learned and what questions they still have.
They also look at the bigger picture via the present team confidence rate, which is a scale from 0 to 10 that shows how they feel about the squad’s prospects at the end of the week.
I still had to wrap the gifts I got for my boyfriend even though Christmas was 10 days away.
I could not curl up alongside him while we drank holiday drinks before noon and the house smelled like a roasting leg of lamb.
At the same time, my bags had been ready for 10 days at my parents’ North Carolina home.
I had to get at least one gift wrapped before I left for my trip the next morning so my boyfriend was able to open a gift in me on Christmas.
I couldn’t be there to see the look on his face as he opened the Squatty Potty joke present under the warm, lively lights in a Christmas tree.
I wasn’t going to be it to laugh with him when he looked closely at the preserved dinosaur poop I found in an antique store in Texas.
My boyfriend and I lived together for 28 years, but we never spend Christmas together. On New Year’s Eve, we celebrated both holidays at the same time.
She went to spend the holiday with her parents every year, while I left to spend it with my parents.