NFL Playoff Schedule 2017: AFC, NFC Bracket, TV Coverage and Super Bowl Picks

January 2, 2017   ·   Kristopher Knox   ·   Jump to comments

The 2016-17 NFL regular season is now a thing of the past, and the pending postseason picture has been set. Beginning on Saturday, January 7, the real race for the Super Bowl will begin.
It took every single game the regular season had to offer to set the current conference brackets. The Green Bay Packers defeated the Detroit Lions in the last game of the regular season to clinch the NFC North and the No. 4 seed in the conference.
The Oakland Raiders were knocked from the AFC's No. 2 seed all the way to the fifth seed earlier in the day. The New England Patriots, meanwhile, locked up the top seed in the AFC on the final day of the regular season.
The Patriots—along with the Dallas Cowboys, Atlanta Falcons and Kansas City Chiefs—will spend the opening week of the postseason on bye.
We're going to take a look at the full schedule for Wild Card Weekend. We'll also be examining the latest buzz entering the playoffs and making our predictions for the ope...

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