DENVER (KDVR) — The Denver Broncos have been on the cusp of a playoff spot, and after Monday night time’s 41-32 win in opposition to the Cleveland Browns, Denver is one step nearer to ending the playoff drought.
The Broncos have not made it to the NFL playoffs in eight years, and by mid-November, it was trying like one other brief season for the Mile Excessive Metropolis.
After a heartbreaking loss throughout Week 10 versus the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, the Broncos landed at a 42% likelihood of constructing the playoffs, in keeping with Professional Soccer Focus, a sports activities analytics firm. The lower than 50% likelihood for the playoffs got here from a wildcard spot, slightly than the Broncos successful AFC West.
Nonetheless, after Monday’s win, the Broncos’ probabilities for playoffs are getting increased and better. Heading into Week 14, PFF ranked the Broncos with a 75.5% likelihood to make the playoffs.
It is extremely unlikely that the Chiefs drop from the highest spot, and the Broncos, who at the moment sit beneath the Los Angeles Chargers, shift towards the highest. For that to be the case, the Broncos must win virtually each recreation and the Chiefs must lose many of the closing video games.
However a prime spot within the convention is not the one approach to make it to the Tremendous Bowl.
How Broncos can clinch a wildcard spot
Heading into Week 14, the Chiefs and the Buffalo Payments have every clinched a playoff spot, in keeping with NFL rankings. In the meantime, the Pittsburgh Steelers, Houston Texans, Chargers, Baltimore Ravens and the Broncos are “within the hunt,” which implies that if the season ended now, these groups would make the playoffs.
The Broncos are at the moment one of many seven AFC groups that aren’t main their divisions, which implies they’re contenders for the three wildcard spots, nevertheless it’s not assured.
For the Broncos to safe a wildcard spot, the group must a minimum of preserve its spot within the AFC convention at No. 7 and ensure the Indianapolis Colts, Miami Dolphins and the Cincinnati Bengals do not surpass the Broncos’ eight wins.
The Broncos have a minimum of a two-game lead forward of the groups on the bubble and must win a number of extra video games and the group will lastly finish the drought.
The Broncos have 4 video games left in opposition to the Colts, Chargers, Bengals and Chiefs.
