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The Bengals (10-6) had already won the A.F.C. A Colts victory would have closed the door on the playoffs for both the Ravens and the Steelers. wild-card berths by losing to the Jaguars, one of the league’s worst teams. The Colts failed to clinch one of the two remaining A.F.C. The Bucs cruised into the postseason with an easy win at home that saw them set the team record for regular-season wins they had set in their Super Bowl-winning season in 2002. The Eagles, for instance, will play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (13-4). The late game between the playoff-bound Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles was mostly meaningless - and lifeless, since the Eagles rested their starting quarterback, Jalen Hurts, and had a raft of Covid-19-related absences - but it helped determine both teams’ seeding in the N.F.C. and a first-round bye, and ended any long-shot chance that the New England Patriots or Cincinnati Bengals might take the No. The Kansas City Chiefs, who beat the Denver Broncos, remained in the running for the top seed in the A.F.C. The two games completed on Saturday went according to seed, keeping the winners alive for higher playoff seeding. teams fighting for the two remaining berths and the San Francisco 49ers taking the final spot in the N.F.C. The last day of the season, which extended into the second weekend of 2022, included five A.F.C. season with an expanded, 17-game regular season. The wild scenarios made the last game of the season of unusual consequence in the first N.F.L.