Playoff Picture: How the Eagles can clinch No. 1 seed and first-round bye in NFC

With Week 11 of the 2024 NFL season in the books, the playoff picture for each conference is beginning to take shape.

The Eagles won their sixth consecutive game with a Thursday Night victory over Washington, the Lions dropped 52 points on a hopeless Jaguars team, and the Chiefs suffered their first loss at the hands of Josh Allen.

Here is the current playoff seeding as of today:

The Playoff Picture through Week 11! @surface pic.twitter.com/yuvKOY1iQb

— NFL (@NFL) November 19, 2024

The Eagles (8-2) currently hold the No. 2 seed behind the Detroit Lions (9-1), but there is a path to claiming the top seed and everything that comes with it (first-round bye and home-field advantage).

NFC scenarios are as follows, courtesy of Deniz Selman:

#Eagles NFC 1 seed tiebreaker scenarios! All 15-2 & 14-3 scenarios below.

Main takeaways:
1) Only way Eagles win 15-2 tiebreaker is if DET's loss is specifically to GB.
2) Losing to LAR (common opp w/DET) would be devastating: would lose 14-3 tiebreaker & need DET to lose 3x. pic.twitter.com/QmcszyQXTF

— Deniz Selman (@denizselman33) November 18, 2024

Moral of the story: beating the Rams this weekend is a must. Detroit has already beaten Los Angeles, and Philadelphia would lose out in a tiebreak scenario should they lose on Sunday.

If both teams finish 15-2, Detroit would have to lose their Week 14 matchup to the Packers for Philadelphia to clinch the top seed since they defeated Green Bay earlier in the year.

We still have seven weeks of regular-season football ahead of us, but it’s fun to get the playoff juices flowing. We’ll update the clinching scenarios as the year goes on.

Never too many @saquon highlights, so here’s a few more! pic.twitter.com/zu2NThzUlj

— Philadelphia Eagles (@Eagles) November 16, 2024

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