The CRAZIEST PLAYOFF SCENARIO in NFL HISTORY | 2006 Packers

Entering the final day of the 2006 NFL season, the Green Bay Packers were still alive, and still had a shot at making the playoffs. That was the good news. The bad news? They needed 9 things to happen on that day alone just to make it. This is the story behind the 2006 Packers, and one of the craziest final day scenarios in the history of the NFL
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Members of the 2006 Packers:
Brett Favre
Ingle Martin
Jon Ryan
Aaron Rodgers
Dave Rayner
Carlyle Holiday
Shaun Bodiford
Atari Bigby
Charles Woodson
Marquand Manuel
Noah Herron
Jarrett Bush
Charlie Peprah
Will Blackmon
PJ Pope
Ahmad Carroll
Tyrone Culver
Ahman Green
Al Harris
William Henderson
Vernand Morency
Samkon Gado
Nick Collins
Brandon Miree
Patrick Dendy
Vonta Leach
Zac Alcorn
AJ Hawk
Brady Poppinga
Abdul Hodge
Nick Barnett
Jason Hunter
Ben Taylor
Tracy White
Rob Davis
Junius Coston
Scott Wells
Tony Palmer
Mark Tauscher
Tyson Walter
Jason Spitz
Daryn Colledge
Aaron Kampman
Tony Moll
Chad Clifton
Cullen Jenkins
Ryan Pickett
Donald Driver
Koren Robinson
Ruvell Martin
Chris Francies
Tory Humphrey
Greg Jennings
Donald Lee
David Martin
Bubba Franks
Robert Ferguson
Colin Cole
Johnny Jolly
Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila
Mike Montgomery
Kenderick Allen
Corey Williams
Mike McCarthy (head coach)

[@big8dog887]

I still think the wackiest playoff scenario was last year when the only way the Steelers could be knocked out was with a Raiders-Chargers tie (where both of those teams would make it, otherwise only the winner would) and it almost happened.

[@muskyoxes]

Such weird incentives since both get in on a tie. There was speculation that they might kneel on the ball the whole game

[@B3Band]

Until the chargers did some stupid shit by calling a timeout when the raiders were gonna just let the clock run out. So the raiders decided to actually try after that, got a first down, then kicked the game winning field goal.

[@natecollison8331]

And if chargers coach doesn't call that timeout, it would have cause it changed raiders coaches mind to try and win it. It was crazy

[@Nichrysalis]

That 32-32 potential score would have been a scorigami too. It would have been a Jon Bois dream game.

[@big8dog887]

@@Nichrysalis Pretty good.

[@williamhermann6635]

That pick 6 by Nick Collins was amazing. He was so good. Such a tragedy his career got cut short because he couldve been a hall of famer.

[@Dubyahh]

Poor Nick. I hope he's doing well. I always hoped that they'd find him a spot in the organization if he needed or wanted it.

[@willdodge200]

@@Dubyahh He went with the team to London this year. Very nice guy and doing well.

[@Dubyahh]

@@willdodge200 really good to hear man, thank you for the info!

[@bentron3030]

Yeah he was great. Right after the SB win got hurt in the season opener right?

[@williamhermann6635]

@@bentron3030 Close. It was the following week vs the Panthers. He went low trying to tackle Jonathan Stewart (who was like 240 pounds) and his neck got crunched.

[@CollinAbroadcast]

I thought this was gonna be about the time that the Packers had to run up the score in real time in order to get in, then I read 2006, haha

[@steelcurtain187]

I love stuff like this when these insane playoff odds actually happen

[@pjabrony8280]

My favorite was when a team needed help in another game, but where they would make the playoffs if either team won. The only way they would fail to make the playoffs was if there was a tie.

[@kwamz28]

@@pjabrony8280 I believe this was the Steelers last season, they needed to beat Ravens and hope Raiders and Chargers didn't end in a tie. Both games ended with a field goal at the end of OT

[@LRS1988]

Looking back on this season, there was one game (week 5 against the Rams) in which the Packers were down 3 inside the Rams 10 with less than a minute left and Favre fumbled and lost 23-20. If they somehow win that game and the rest of the season went as is, Packers are 9-7 and get that 6th seed. They probably lose to Philly as they got blown out by them in week 4. The silver lining in GB's final 4 game winning streak was that it carried over the next season in a way in which many people didn't expect them to do as well as they did.

[@djohns808]

I remember wondering why this was the SNF game. I thought maybe it was because they thought it might be Favre's last game. This was also the second consecutive year the Packers defeated the eventual NFC Champion in the Regular Season finale.

[@reidcraig3739]

My grandpa is a Chiefs fan (despite living in Indiana) and I was just telling him about the 2006 Chiefs scenario last night during the MNF game. When I was explaining that to him I also notice the Packers situation and I was trying to figure out what they had to do.

[@codbus7651]

@@brettweyporth6139 Chiefs are a first round exit

[@lightyagami3492]

@@codbus7651 yeah in 2006 they were. They got extremely fortunate to even make the playoffs that year.

[@MarloSoBalJr]

Packers' scenario... You win out and hope everyone else lose

[@Coyotek4]

I'm still processing last season, when the Steelers were nearly knocked out of the playoffs because of an end-of-season SNF tie.

[@dionr1168]

I thought the Packers/Bears Week 17 game was flexed to NBC due to speculation that it might be Favre's last game.

[@andrewschultz6608]

I love how the highlights show a scoreless tie for KC vs Jacksonville, and the chiron has the final 35-30 score.

[@AdamKlownzinger]

Dude why are you talking about the 2006 Redskins as if they were 13-3? They were 5-10 going into that game, and the Giants were 7-8. You’re acting as if there is absolutely no possible way a 7-8 team would have beaten a 5-10 team.

[@anthony0358]

I remember this day and that packers 18:59 bears game that night with farve possibly retiring. Great video

[@jasonfire3434]

I remember the crazy scenarios and yet the Giants-Washington game on Saturday made it almost impossible for Green Bay to make it even with everything else possibly going right. That Giants game, combined with the Pats/Giants the next season, led to the league scheduling all Week 17 games on Sunday in future years (until last season)

[@TheRealfan1]

They will probably put games on Saturday in week 18 that only affects seeding in some way (like they did with Chiefs-Broncos and Cowboys-Eagles), not win or go home games like Titans-Jaguars. Ravens-Bengals (both clinched a Playoff spot already) may be a Saturday game in week 18.

[@nicholashalom1632]

@@TheRealfan1 well this comment backfired

[@PAGoTribe1963]

I love it when a TV network's best laid plans for ratings goes up in smoke.

[@Rossturnerphoto]

I was at the Bucs- Seahawks game that year. It was one of the worst football games I ever had the misfortune of witnessing in person.

[@Rockhound6165]

The worst game I ever saw in person was a 10-10 tie between the Eagles and Cardinals in 1986.

[@adamf7089]

I can’t believe I watched this thinking the scenario would happen when it wasn’t even close 😂 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@RetroJR3379]

Always thought it was because of Brett Farve that NBC picked the Packers/Bears for 2006 finale

[@higgy04]

I had just subscribed to Sirius Satellite Radio that Christmas and that was the first Packers game I ever got to hear Wayne and Larry. 16 years later, I'm still listening to them. I also remember nobody was expecting the Packers to improve on their 8-8 record going into 2007. I don't know what I left behind after a July visit to Lambeau before training camp (part of a cross-country road trip from Calgary to Ottawa BTW) and buying half the inventory at the Packers Pro Shop, but the Packers went a surprising 13-3. Had Favre not thrown the INT in OT, Green Bay could have ruined the 'Cheatriots' perfect season attempt in Arizona, with no helmet catch involved. (The cheesehead in my screengrab was purchased at the Packers Pro Shop on that trip)

[@Steve_Hunts96]

I still to this day believe that Packers team would’ve seen Farve hoisting that Lombardi trophy in Arizona had that INT not been thrown. What a shame that he couldn’t get back to the Super Bowl and win that one, then retire into the sunset a champion rather than everything that happened after that in Favre’s career. Thank god Rodgers won in 2010.

[@travisbergh3923]

Green Bay: We need you guys to beat the Rams so we can make the playoffs. T Jack: OK (throws pick six less than 2 minutes into the game .)

[@BigTiger_99]

Now I want to see a video on the Inverse, A bizarro scenario where a team “needed” 4-5 different things to happen to MISS the Playoffs, And then all of those things happened.

[@OfficialJaguarGator9]

1980 Patriots. Only way they’d miss was if 5 teams lost. They all did. kzbin.info/www/bejne/f52sXmiKgZKIkJo

[@michaelnicholas5587]

The 1978 Packers were eliminated when the Eagles’ Herman Edwards scooped up the Giants’ Joe Pisarcik fumble at the end of the game and returned it for a touchdown. Heartbreaking for a kid who hadn’t seen the Packers make the playoffs in many years and wouldn’t see them relevant for another 15 years.

[@chloroclymor8388]

Well if one of the 9 things that needed to happen did not, then who would have made the playoffs? wouldn't that be the inverse?

[@ShiloStigen]

​@@michaelnicholas5587 I didn't know that! As a Packer fan, I'm embarrassed that I didn't know they got knocked out by the Herm Edwards touchdown. Of course I wasn't born yet though 🙂

[@michaelnicholas5587]

@@ShiloStigen Don't be embarrassed, we (the Packers) didn't deserve to make it anyway. After starting the season 6-2, they finished 8-7-1, and got pummeled by every playoff caliber team they played.

[@ryangoldfeder7183]

I remember when the 2013 Steelers entering week 16 needed to win 2 games, the Ravens to lose out, the dolphins to lose out, the jets to win out (to break a tiebreaker with Miami), and the chargers to lose a game. In total 8 games needed to go their way. Steelers ended up winning out, ravens lost out, dolphins lost out, and it came down to chargers-chiefs at 4:25. Chiefs were locked into a wild card and rested their starters, so it was unlikely. KC had a shot to win on a last second field and Ryan succop missed it. Chargers won in overtime. I was so mad but karma came back to bite the chiefs when they blew a 38-10 lead in the wild card round.

[@scottybbadd]

The reason, I remember, that this game was flexed to SNF was it was Brett Farve's last game as a Packer.

[@matthewshortle5274]

Turned out it wasn't the case at Favre would play another year for the Packers

[@ShiloStigen]

Almost. There was a lot of buzz that he would retire after this game, but he decided to play in '07 after all. Then in '07 he did retire, but then unretired before being traded to the Jets.

[@Jason_Maier]

I thought the strangest playoff scenarios were 1970 (where if one result was flipped; the NFC Wild Card Spot would've come down to a coin flip between the Giants and Lions), 1984 (where the Giants backed into the #2 WC spot in spite of losing their last two games; after everyone in front of them lost) or 1977 & 1979 (where the Bears got in over the Redskins due to point differential)

[@therocket3701]

The similrity between the 22 packers and 2006 packers was funny

[@ShiloStigen]

Yeah that was a pretty good fake out at the beginning of the video!

[@DoritoTime]

EVERY team the Packers needed to win was an underdog lmaoo

[@thatrandomguyonyt5959]

It would’ve been hilarious if every game went Green Bay’s way and then they preceded to lose

[@jeffanderson3962]

It woud be almost the equivalent of being down 7 late in a game you need to win to make it in, scoring a TD on a 6-lateral desperation play only to miss the tying XP. But that could never happen.

[@D-block15]

@@jeffanderson3962 Why do I feel like you're making a call-back to one Saints vs. Jaguars game many many years ago? Hmmmm..😅😉

[@jasonrobbins7075]

The year is 2022, oh, my bad, let's try that again... The year is 2006... 😂🤣

[@ShiloStigen]

The Packers have had lots of seasons when they started cold but got hot and then just made or just missed the playoffs at the end. 1989, '92, '94, '99, 2000, '03, this one in '06, '10 (SB win as a 6 seed), '13, '16, '22, and '23 all come to mind.

[@reidcraig3739]

Here's how the seeding would have been that year had this gone to plan AFC 1. Baltimore (13-3)* Won head-to-head over Baltimore (#2 Seed in actuality) 2. San Diego (13-3) (#1 Seed & 14-2 in actuality) 3. New England (12-4) (#4 Seed in actuality) 4. Indianapolis (11-5) (#3 Seed & 12-4 in actuality) 5. NY Jets (10-6) 6. Kansas City (9-7) NFC 1. Chicago (13-3) 2. New Orleans (11-5) (10-6 in actuality) 3. Philadelphia (10-6) 4. Seattle (9-7) 5. Dallas (9-7) 6. Green Bay (8-8) (1st team out in actuality)

[@lionsfan7500]

I remember my wife and I watching the Lions vs the Cowboys that day and we were in a state of shock that the Lions went down to Texas Stadium and beat the Cowboys. Just kind of a fun memory with my late wife.

[@nigh_anxiety]

Regarding the Seahawks v Buccaneers and why the Bucs were favored - the Seahawks were on a 3 game skid with losses to the Cardinals, 49ers, and Chargers, while the Bucs had beaten the Browns the week prior, so they probably just made it coin-toss odds with advantage to the home-team.

[@xtlm]

7:32 Random Westbrook highlight. Dang man. He was really good. Almost forget how fast he was.

[@kylereese6202]

I was banking on this video meaning something, and it did not.

[@chrisguardiano6143]

This is very similar to what happened a year earlier with West Brom & the Premier League relegation race in terms of everything needing to go their way. Heading into the final match of the season, West Brom had one of the most daunting scenarios in Premier League history to stay up. They first had to win their last match at home to Portsmouth & then hope that 3 other teams, Crystal Palace, Norwich & Southampton all failed to win their matches. It should be pointed out that only one of the four teams I mentioned would avoid relegation with a win while the other 3 would go down regardless if they won based on goal difference & head to head record between the 4 teams. To make things even more difficult for West Brom, they headed into this final match at the bottom of the league & many people considered them the least likely of the 4 to stay up. However unlike the Packers, two late goals were enough for West Brom to win their match & everything else went their way as Norwich (who got obliterated 6-0 by Fulham), Crystal Palace (who choked big time by allowing a goal in the last minute to Charlton to get a 2-2 tie) & Southampton (who lost 2-1 to Man United) all got relegated. Somehow West Brom had pulled it off and what makes this even more remarkable is that when the Premier League reached its midway point at Christmas of that season, West Brom were easily the worst team in the league and many people were penciling them in as one of the worst teams in Premier League history. West Brom is so far one of two clubs (with Sunderland in 2013-2014 being the other) to have avoided relegation after being bottom of the Premier League at Christmas. There have been many crazy relegation escapes in the Premier League & in the old Division 1 over the years but this one takes the cake as the craziest for what had to happen & the number of teams involved.

[@Rockhound6165]

Nobody cares about soccer.

[@TheAoalec14]

TL/DR

[@jonathanfrimerman8855]

Yeah the 2005 pl season was crazy all 3 relegarion decuded in last week

[@jeffanderson3962]

I think a more accurate analogy would be picking all four 16 seeds to reach the final 4 and then also picking the right one to win the title.

[@BarrowToBePromoted]

2022 Packers Will "Run The Table"

[@sparkypikachu7776]

Weeeee'll see. Lose 1 game 🎵🎵and it's 1, 2, 3 losses you're out of the play-off race!.🎵🎵 😁😁

[@JeffreyLWJH]

Important to remember that there's usually a built in rating boost you get with a Packers/Bears game. Not a huge risk as a broadcast decision.

[@packerfan10]

I thought this was going to be the famous 1999 "we need more points" senecio.

[@Jeremattress]

The more CRAZIEST PLAYOFF SCENARIO videos you upload, the more I ask myself how many CRAZIEST PLAYOFF SCENARIOs are there

[@goldenstatewarriors9418]

Last years Playoff stuff was pretty wild too. Rams choke to the 49ers allowing Arizona to take the division back but they choke to the Seahawks. The Ravens, after being 8-3, on top of the AFC lose out and give the Steelers a chance. The Colts somehow lose to Jacksonville which opens an extra spot. The only way the Steelers are eliminated is if the game is a tie between the Raiders and Chargers. That actually almost happens until Staley calls the timeout.

[@jab1289]

It's too bad they didn't flex the 49ers@Broncos game to SNF instead. Darrent Williams doesn't get shot if they had to play that night. Also, maybe the Broncos get into the playoffs, and that changes NFL history big-time (one way is that Shanny doesn't get fired in 2008, more than likely. That probably butterflies away the Elway-Manning era and the current dysfunction that you see in Denver).

[@slimypickle19]

The worst year in NFC history. 10-6 got you a 1st round bye & 8-8 somehow got you a wild card. It's easier to win a division with a bad record than it is to get a wild card. Bears capitalized on the weak conference, but got hammered by the Colts & Patriots both that year.

[@tomservo75]

7:18 That comment wouldn't even age for one year :)

[@JWex-jy7sk]

Didn’t this same thing happen with the 2015 Colts on the last day of the season

[@scarylarry5198]

Bro if the shit didn't actually happen why even make the video going so in depth and crunching the numbers to build up suspension for a climax that didn't happen

[@j.a.greene3523]

Best playoff clinching moments that I remember was when the Chiefs claimed a playoff birth in 2006 (they had to win their game AND have 3 teams lose), Bills in 2017 (Bengals converting a 4th and 13 play to get the lead against the Ravens), and the Chargers winning the division in 2008 after being down 4 games with 4 to go (they had a 4-8 record with the Broncos having a 8-4 record, and somehow, the Chargers won the division and the Broncos didn't). The most improbable playoff run came in 1996, when a Morton Anderson missed FG vaulted the 2nd year Jaguars into the playoffs, where they beat the Bills in Buffalo and then John Elway and the Broncos in Denver.

[@DyslexicLemonz]

"Never tell me the odds" -Han Solo

[@jeffanderson3962]

What would the combined odds have been for both GB and KC's scenarios to play out in their favor?

[@rodrigoorvananos2779]

If my memory serves me well, everyone thought that was Brett's last game. His friendship with Madden was the angle for the game. I remember John practically crying narrating the final minute. It was a special game. Go Pack

[@farmasyst]

Favre was crying after the game,basically saying that this was "one of the best groups of core players that he had ever played with and they would be tough in 2007". It's one of the reasons why he came back.That and the All-Time Touchdown Record was within reach.Had they lifted him at halftime of the 2007 NFC Championship game in favor of Rodgers ( Which GM Ted Thompson suggested and McCarthy balked at), they may have very well gone to the Super Bowl.

[@andrewpadaetz5549]

I still think about 1970 and what would have happened if the Giants beat the Rams and put the wild card between the Lions and Cowboys into a coin flip since there were just two tiebreakers (H2H and conference record) back then. Or, if a prospective lawsuit blocking the flip was won, would a wild card playoff been played between Dallas and Detroit? Worse, there would have been very little time to figure it out as even if you push the playoffs a week back you couldn't push back the Super Bowl as even then, arrangements had to be made months in advance (in this case in Miami; which always has been a winter destination).

[@MightyDuckofAnaheim200203]

History is repeating its self it's crazy

[@jonathanfrimerman8855]

FOR GB IT DOES

[@jonathanfrimerman8855]

Like 2006 4-8 to 8-8 and a chance at playoff spot

[@PowerPackers90]

We got 4x MVP QB, Watsin and our Romeo are already growing into their roles, Dillion and Jones can be deadly in the run game, the special team can strike fast, and the defense is a turnover machine that doesnt quit. Even if we miss the playoffs this year. 2023 watch out cause the Pack is Back.

[@nachoalvarez7171]

Pac-Man got another reboot? I didn't know that

[@CC-rb1yf]

If it hasn't happened yet a video about the 1989 Steelers making playoffs should be done

[@TheMeloMan]

2016 Buccaneers had the exact same scenario as this team did and only got eliminated from the playoffs because of the 7-9 Eagles winning a meaningless game in Week 17. How come no one ever talked about that?

[@Zalis116]

That Eagles win in the early window officially eliminated them, but 4 other games later on also didn't go their way, including the NYG-WSH game that they needed to end in a tie.

[@garyv2498]

Good thing Favre didn't retire after that game. Who was the backup, some rookie nobody ever heard of? Aaron somebody?

[@Max-no1fv]

There's a video in your ad here.

[@RodgersXLVmvp]

I’ll never forget the year Green Bay had to beat Denver , it was 02 or 03 , something like that , Green Bay beat the shit out of Denver , completely blew them out. But they also needed the Vikings to lose to the Cardinals , and the Cardinals were trash. Minnesota was clearly the better team , it was a low scoring game but it looked like Minnesota was about to win , then the Cardinals got a late TD , kicked an Onside Kick , recovered it , then scored again with seconds left to win the game , it was so fucking crazy , I was crying I was so happy. After that game they got rid of the Push Out rule cause that’s how the Cardinals scored the GW Touchdown. Another fun fact , Packers went to the playoffs , their Wildcard game was the iconic , “we want the ball and we’re gonna score” game against Seattle , so without that week 17 Scenario that game would have never happened either. I swear these games use to mean so much more to me when I was younger , I can’t tell you who was in the Super Bowl last year , but I can break down every single postseason from the late 90’s and 00’s

[@owfi]

That's pretty crazy but I would put the Raiders vs Chargers game from last season above it. If they tie the Steelers are out and if not then the team that loses is out. The game went to OT and could've tied but the Chargers wanted the win.

[@BigTiger_99]

This probably isn’t really that valid, But I do remember back in 2015, The Texans (who were my team at the time) were neck and neck with the Colts for the division lead, And on the final day of the season they could win the division by beating the Jaguars, Or through like, 10 other outcomes that would have benefited them in any of the Tiebreakers, But none of them mattered because Houston won anyway, And proceeded to get Murdered by Pre-Mahomes Kansas City in the Wild Card.

[@astros7242]

I remember the AFC side of this and their Chiefs getting in with insaneness. Unfortunately I remember it as a Broncos fan and so many what ifs in that game that could have gone our way. But the biggest one was our young star corner Darrent Williams was murdered that night after that loss. This was New Year’s Eve (the game). I always wondered what if we had won that game would he have been somewhere else instead.

[@farmasyst]

Wasn't Williams with teammate Javon Walker that night? Walker was a Packer who held out before the end of his rookie contract and Ted Thompson traded him for the draft pick that they used to draft 8,400 Career Receiving Yardmaker Greg Jennings. Whatever happened to Javon Walker?

[@greenyoshi888]

I highly recommend you look into the path to the playoffs for the Detroit Lions in the 2021-2022 season going into week 13. The lions were 0-10-1 at this point. It is comical how much needed to go their way for them to make the playoffs.

[@benjaminh7548]

Just to note, Vegas odds takes into account everything that could affect a game, not just playoff scenarios or W/L record. Better teams are made underdogs often near the end of the season when Vegas expects them to not play to their potential while everyone on the worse team is fighting for their jobs.

[@kyle1910]

2016 TB needed all of the following to happen to make the playoffs: 1. TB beats CAR 2. DET beats GB 3. TEN beats HOU 4. IND beats JAX 5. DAL beats PHI 6. SF beats SEA 7. NYG-WAS tie Yes the last game had to end in a tie.

[@sparkypikachu7776]

Did it happen tho

[@kyle1910]

@@sparkypikachu7776 no but that's not the point. The point is that it was another extreme scenario. TB did beat CAR and the AFC games went TBs way, but DAL already had the #1 seed wrapped up, rested their starters early and lost so TB was out because of that. And FWIW the other three games went the wrong way. It ended up with DET getting the last spot over TB on the common opponents tiebreaker

[@marcus813]

@@kyle1910 I remember that one all too well. Even after the Bucs won, I didn't feel fully satisfied due to the Eagles' win. Then again, with the NYG/WAS game having to end in a tie, getting to the playoffs was gonna be an uphill climb for the Bucs in the 1st place.

[@Zalis116]

IIRC the odds on that were something like a 1 in 62,500 chance.

[@dbleo_]

If the Steelers make the playoffs this year, that would be pretty crazy. Going into week 17, they only had one playoff path which was Week 17 1. Steelers beat the Ravens 2. Seahawks beat the Jets 3. Patriots beat the Dolphins Week 18 4. Steelers beat the Browns 5. Bills beat the Patriots 6. Jets beat the Dolphins Three of those have already happened, and there's a pretty good chance they sneak in.

[@troybaxter]

Last year’s was also wacky in the sense that the Steelers were in UNLESS the Chargers-Raiders tied. Oh how that almost happened.

[@tylerlarsen1842]

If only Brandon Staley didn't call timeout...

[@Fireyninjadog]

Brett favre committed 36 turnovers in 2005, a league record for one player

[@travisennis6998]

Collins Made a nice house call. He was the next great player to wear LeRoy Butler's jersey number! Too bad his career ended a few seasons later. He was a great player for that SB run in 2010. So many great players on that team.

[@muskyoxes]

"The teams the Packers beat on this hot streak weren't impressive." - this is about 2022, right?

[@VinnyXwolf]

You mentioned 1999 but you should look at the 1999 Packers Scenario in week 17 amd the scoring palooza that occurred for the playoffs.

[@natelitchy5923]

Ahhh. The packers missed the playoffs.

[@brianray1864]

Why would AFC teams playing each other like the dolphins and colts affect an NFC team like the Packers ?

[@Rockhound6165]

This is a similar scenario the Eagles would have in 2008. In week 17 they needed the Bears, Redskins, Bucs to lose and they needed to beat the Cowboys. The biggest hurdles were the Raiders beating Tampa and the 49ers beating the Redskins which ended up happening then the Eagles blew out the Cowboys to grab the final wild card spot all because they had a tie that season. The Eagles ended up in the NFC title game against another unlikely team the Cardinals.

[@jackmessick2869]

I don't see how two games featuring all AFC teams affect the NFC playoff picture. Is it common opponents that somehow affects strength of schedule?

[@Zalis116]

It's because of the "Strength of Victory" (SOV) tiebreaker -- since the Giants defeated the Texans, Green Bay needed the Texans to lose to hurt the Giants' SOV. Similarly, the Packers defeated the Dolphins, so they needed the Dolphins to win to help their own SOV. Similar scenarios played out with the 2015 Colts and 2016 Bucs, who needed some NFC / AFC games to go their way to win the SOV tiebreaker.

[@JennyXJ-9Wakeman]

If 49ers-Broncos would have been the primetime game that week it's entirely possible that Darrent Williams wouldn't have died because he would have been playing in that game while the party at that nightclub was going on.

[@stevengrvp]

These are the best

[@grantbaker86]

Interesting video idea, genuinely enjoyed it. One thing though: the pacing was awful. Way too repetitive and took 10 minutes to even get to the topic. I almost clicked off. I'm glad I didn't because it really is an interesting topic. I'm not saying this to hate, I think you have real potential to become an incredible content creator. I'm guessing this video would have 5x the views if it were tightened up a bit. Keep it up, you're making interesting shit.

[@mikekamrowski5058]

To be fair everyone at that time thought this was going to be Brett Favre’s last game. I think that was the primary reason for flexing this game into Sunday night football.

[@Zalis116]

I wonder if the NFL will ever regret bringing back Saturday games in the final week of the season, considering how much potential they have to make SNF meaningless or be meaningless themselves, like Cowboys-Eagles in 2021. They also ran into controversy a year after this Bears-Packers game, as the Patriots-Giants regular season finale was supposed to be NFLN-exclusive, but demand to see the Patriots attempt to complete a 16-0 season caused the game to be shown on other networks as well. I am glad they moved to all-divisional matchups for the final week, since a lot of these random interconference games are likely to be irrelevant. They also made a smart move in 2017 by not scheduling _any_ game for SNF in Week 17 (which happened to fall on New Year's Eve as well), since there was no game available whose playoff significance was independent of other games.

[@bentron3030]

Love your videos but man you could cut down on some of these times.

[@redspyro7650]

I’m 2015 colts needed 10 things to go there way to win the division . 6 of those things happened but hey it was close

[@meettrout419]

History really does repeat itself

[@pierresoorden5975]

1-3 (10 teams) 2-2 (12 teams) 3-1 (14 teams)

[@pierresoorden5975]

16 and 8 everyone plays a round

[@eduardooneal]

One day we gonna get to the tie breaker of a coin flip!

[@WhatAG23]

I didn’t realize 2007 and 2011 weren’t the only times the Giants fucked Green Bay with the playoffs. This has to be the worst single season conference in NFL history. New Orleans was able to get the second seed with a record of just 10 and 6. Then you have two unimpressive wild card teams, one of which being one of the worst playoff teams in NFL history.

[@SurgingSpecs]

Ya needed 600 to pass, ya got 6

[@mlakustiak14]

And now NBC might have done the same thing

[@Wallyworld30]

Packers won the last 4 games that season finishing 8-8 gave us hope for 2007. In 2007 Favre lead us to 13-3 record and took us to the NFC Championship with "Homefield" advantage. It was so cold you could see Brett Favre's ole Mississippi ass couldn't take the Negative -23F winchill anymore and just wanted that game over by it's end. It was such a close game when Favre thew that last Interception the last pass of his Packer career it was just sad that he had given up. He couldn't beat the cold weather. As a younger player Favre set a record by winning like 40 straight games at Lambeau but that day in the NFCCG Favre just didn't care.

[@user-el5cz9po3p]

Why would an account game (browns /texans) matter for an nfc wildcard spot???

[@adamdobrowolski2510]

Funny thing is getting 2 of the 3 longest odds to hit on the ML. So if you bet each game individually with your parlay, you're coming out on top. P.S.: I'm still mad about that Cowboys loss, LOL.

[@alwaysfish907]

I have to know, what did AFC games have anything to do with what the Packers did, in the NFC? This just makes absolutely no sense, probably because it was so damn unlikely to go down.

[@OfficialJaguarGator9]

The Giants beat the Texans earlier in the season. If the Texans lost, their record would go down, decreasing New York's strength of victory

[@alwaysfish907]

@@OfficialJaguarGator9 thanks for clarifying! Didn't think about the whole giants and strength of victory thing

[@exoticbeatz1]

The 2022 browns could never do this

[@duane8819]

Right indeed.

[@Bruce12867]

They won't get that chance.

[@marcjsolis]

Why did the Browns and Texans matter? They were both AFC teams in 2006.

[@mkepioneet]

I remember this! Kind of. It felt whacky at the time but not this whacky!

[@jlpdotcom]

Just trying to offer constructive criticism here, but get to the point sooner man!

[@TheRealfan1]

What about doing a video on 2008 Eagles chances to make Playoffs from time they were were 5-5-1? What were Eagles odds of making Playoffs? Were odds more or less likely than 2006 Packers in week 17?

[@scottybbadd]

How was the Browns vs Texans game relevant to an NFC tiebreaker, they're AFC teams.

[@OfficialJaguarGator9]

Strength of victory/schedule

[@farmasyst]

Haha..almost like Deja Vu all over again, but this time the Packers were playing a hungry team that was sick and tired of being seen as the NFC North's Doormat. Even though they were eliminated from the playoffs, Lions' coach Dan Campbell wanted nothing more than to sweep the Packers and have the best NFC North Record at 5-1.

[@marcus813]

This is more the NFL's gamble than NBC's because the NFL is the entity that makes such a decision. I'm not sure what the actual hell the NFL was thinking after it figured out the playoff scenarios for the Packers. You can't have a meaningless game on the SNF finale, especially when it falls on NYE. There was no way all 8 of those games would go the Packers' way. The NFL should've kept that Packers/Bears game on FOX.

[@trevorhintz1290]

2022 Raiders can still make the playoffs with with a backup quarterback. All they need to happen is: Steelers to lose 1 of their 2 remaining games against the Ravens or the Browns Jaguars to either win the AFC South or lose out and finish 7-10 Week 17: Win vs 49ers Patriots win vs Dolphins Seahawks win vs Jets Week 18: Win vs Chiefs Jets win vs Dolphins Bills win vs Patriots All this happens, the standings look like this: 7. Raiders 8-9 8. Patriots 8-9 9. Jets 8-9 10. Dolphins 8-9 11. Titans 8-9 12. Steelers 8-9 Raiders get the tiebreaker with their head to head win over the Patriots

[@robkitchen5344]

I'm a little confused....why would 2 games involving 4 AFC teams have any bearing on the Packers an NFC team making the playoffs, ???