 Are the Steelers going to make the playoffs? How fun is this? The Packers definitely are. They might win the Super Bowl. How wild was season finale, part one, AKA week 17, Q, the playoff picture. It's what we do here on the Up and Atom show as we take a look at the NFC. The Eagles, let's set the table here. They're still atop at 13 and three. The one seed and the entire NFC East title still up for grabs after the loss to the Saints who were playing great football at the end when it doesn't matter. That is two shots, two shots that Eagles had at locking it up that failed. Oof, they miss Jalen, they need him back, and they've got decisions to make in Philly. The Niners, as you can see, they move up to the two seed after beating the Raiders in overtime to capture their ninth straight win. And they can take the one seed with the win, and if the Eagles lose in week 18, and Bosa, by the way, runs the world, Vikings, woof. They drop down to the three seed. You couldn't do it, Vikings. You had to be so excited, hopped up on everything. All these close games, you get blown out and killed by the Packers. They're the three seed now, the Bucks. You let him in, you did it, you did it, you idiots. What did you do here? The Buccaneers wrap up the South division title, 30 to 24, come back from behind win over the Panthers. They lock up the four, and they host a team in the first round, probably this one, the Cowboys. They're in the five seed. They can still win the NFC East, wow. They gotta beat the Commanders week 18, and have the Eagles lose to the Giants. They're also still alive for the one seed if both the Eagles and the Niners lose. Ipsofacto carried the one, and we're on a roll here on a Monday. The Giants, as you can see here, they clinched their first playoff birth since 2016. The infamous boat pictures, the Timbalands, all of it. They took down the Colts 38 to 10 yesterday afternoon, and they're locked in. They cannot move from that six seed, and that's important. Stay tuned, we'll tell you why. And the final wild card spot, still completely up for grabs. I mean, the Packers take it with a win over a feisty Lions team, and week 18, the team won a thousand ball for Dan Campbell. Dan Campbell's like, you are on the right. You are on the right to play in a meaningful game. And the Seahawks, they get the wild card, and they'd win and be in if they get a W, and the Packers lose. The Lions still somehow can grab that spot if they win and the Seahawks lose to the Rams. Sean McVeigh, think about this. Sean McVeigh may have the final say in whether or not Jared Goff takes this Detroit team, not just the team, the city, the entire Midwest, all of Michigan on his back into the playoffs. That is a twist of fate. I mean, give it to him, McVeigh. You gotta give it to him. What are we doing here? Tweet the show, add up an Adams show, and let's move on to the AFC side of things. All right, as you can see, Chiefs move up. They get the one seed. Oh boy, with their probable MVP with a win over the Broncos yesterday. But tonight, big game, Bengals-Bills. The Bills can snatch that right back with a win over the three-seated Cincinnati squad. That's the Bengals. They can clinch the AFC North if they win tonight over the Bills. And they're in play still, people. The Bengals are in play for the one seed as well. The Jags lead, oh, let's do it. Where are we at here? I think the Jags... Don't know what happened, but the Jags lead the AFC South at eight and eight, following their 31 to three win over the Texans. The winner takes on, I believe, the Titans next week, and then they can earn that four seed. Now let me look at here. The Chargers, they move up to the five seed. They beat the Rams yesterday in our backyard here. The Ravens, what are we doing? What are we doing? They drop to the six after losing to the Steelers, but they can still win the North if the Bengals lose tonight, and they're able to beat Sinsi next week. The Patriots, they're in the wildcard spot. That final wildcard spot, and they can lock it up if they beat the Bills next week. The Dolphins can snag it if they beat the Jets and the Pats losing the Steelers. Like I said, last week credit to Tomlin. Some noise for Tomlin here. They're very much alive. It was about a 2% chance at some point last week while I was in Cabo drinking coconut water, just for the hell of it, just for the Gram, I'll admit it. But that's wild, and we'll get to that in a moment. If they beat the Browns next week and the Patriots and the Dolphins both lose, Pittsburgh would be in. So there you have it. Sorry about the snafu there in the middle of it. I think it happened because it's crazy that the Jags and the Titans somehow are in it and can earn a four seed in this situation. I think my mind glitched on that one. So the table is officially set, guys, for week 18. As I bring in Matthew Hamilton. Hamilton, did I miss anything egregious? No, I think he hit it all on the head that Jags-Titans game is gonna be big. And there's actually still a weird scenario where both of those teams can get in. If the Titans beat the Jaguars and then the Patriots, Dolphins and Steelers all lose, then the Titans would be AFC South Champs and the Jaguars would get that last wild card spot. So there's still a little bit of a weirdness that we can see play out, but it's gonna be interesting. We did, we're still waiting on the Sunday slate of games and how that's all gonna shake out, schedule-wise, but we did get the Saturday schedule and released late last night. We're getting Chiefs Raiders at 4.30 on Saturday. And then that Titans, that aforementioned Titans Jaguars game is gonna be at 8.15. The de facto AFC South Championship game. So it's gonna be a lot of fun next week. It certainly will. So last year, I remember being like, I don't wanna like this 18, week 18 thing. And it actually mattered and it made the games and the playoffs all that better. Do you think it's shaping up that way this year? I think so. I think we could see some strange things happen. You know, if the Chiefs are able to lock up the one seed on Saturday night, that could make the Bills potentially not have a lot to play for in that game against the Patriots and maybe the Bills rest some guys in the Patriots get an edge in that game, but which would be kind of catastrophic, but we'll see how that plays out. But I'm interested to see what they do with the Sunday night football game. I think everybody kind of thinks it's gonna be Packers Lions as of right now. I think that would be the natural choice, but there is a little bit of concern because if they make that the Sunday night game and the Seahawks win against the Rams earlier in the day, then the Lions would already be eliminated by the time we get to Sunday night football. That's the risk you run by making that move, but I think that has to be the game, right? Well, we were stewing over other options. This is like nerd stuff. This is nerd, but we're like who's getting flexed? Who's trying to go into the beautiful minds of these schedule makers who are insanely intelligent and have all the algorithms and all of that, but you have to think the only other option would be Bangles Ravens, right? Yeah, and that really only comes into play if the Bangles lose tonight because if the Bangles beat the Bills tonight, that AFC North title's already decided, so that game kind of loses some of its luster because it'll only really be meaningful for the Bangles, maybe potentially being able to get the one seed, but I just can't see any game having more meaning than Lions Pack. Because even if the Lions are eliminated, you know that game is gonna mean a ton to that fan base to keep Aaron Rodgers out, especially he's talked a lot of trash about the Lions over the last couple of weeks. Even after that first loss to Detroit, he was like, the Lions didn't beat me, I beat myself. So. Yeah. You listened to his entire 15 minute post game. What were your thoughts? Aaron Rodgers. I did. I mean, I was just in Cabo and they were talking to me about like, and I was looking at little experiences I could do just to put to the career. Not ayahuasca. Experiences. Something ritualistic on my New Year's Eve and you know, Temescal, I think you go into like a sweat lodge tent and do all this stuff. And then they're like, oh, we can do the frog venom thing for you. And I was like frog venom, you know, like where they inject you with to clean your blood to do something. And I'm like, that sounds like something Aaron would do. And so maybe I want to do, but I was like, but he didn't have a great season. He's probably not making the playoffs or not. And then this game yesterday, taking down the NFL scene with champions, I'm like, give me the frog venom. I'm not saying he did frog venom. Or if that's okay or like on some sort of list, that's gonna get him popped for something. Is that what I'm saying? That is just seemed like something very Aaron Rodgers to get frog venom put into your veins. No? Yeah. And he was talking a lot yesterday about the power of manifestation and how he believes in all that. And, you know, he, he's definitely enjoying the moment right now, I think. And well, I know you're gonna get into a little bit of that a little bit later and show some of that. But he's, he's, he's reveling in this right now, but there's still work to be done because the Lions are not just gonna roll over for this backer squad either. It's so true. So we've got this Saturday thing where the Jags and Titans can both get in and they're fighting for the four seed and it's the AFC South championship. I admitted to you something before the show that I'm just gonna tell everybody. Up until I was like 14, maybe 15, maybe 17. I don't know who's counting. I thought it was seat, like the one seat, not the one seed. Doesn't it make more sense? What the hell is a seed? Why do they call it a seed? Like they got the two seed, the chiefs got the, that means they're the second fiddle, the second seed in the NFL orchestra. That does make sense. But as we were talking about it this morning, I, you know, I kind of guess I was like, it sounds like something tennis related. Like I feel like the British came up with this in some form. It just seems very British to me. Conrad's making fun of me. I think I'm gonna call them seeds. There you go. You're just gonna do it, you're gonna change it. The one seed. What does a seed have to do with, I don't know. Did you look it up on the Wikipedia? Yeah, it says, well seed has many meetings. Ooh. Yeah, we don't need to go there. The term, the one that's used in Game of Thrones very often, we're not gonna go there, but here's the sports term of it. It was first used in tennis, which you're a genius. You knew that. It's based on the idea of laying out a tournament ladder by arranging slips of paper with the names of players on them the way seeds or seedlings are arranged in a garden, which apparently, which no one knows, you have smaller plants up front and larger ones behind. Sure. What? It makes sense. I was right, it's seed. So we'll talk about, you know, we'll see that wildcard seed might be taken by the Patriots. Hey, we got a guest coming up right after this that you know pretty well. What should I talk to him about? We do. I can't wait to hear Matt Castle's thoughts on the Patriots because they are very much alive now and big matchup, big win yesterday against the Dolphins, big matchup coming up with the Bills. I know he's pretty plugged in there as you are. So I'm very much looking forward to that chat. Very much looking forward to it. Hey, can we just start this right now? We're gonna do Aaron Rodgers' manifestation. DJ Reader tonight. Big game, big game from DJ Reader. Can we stop Josh Allen? Can we stop single Terry? Can we stop everybody from running a muck with that Bills offense there in Cincinnati tonight? DJ Reader, have yourself a game. Yeah, I'm looking at Logan Wilson too. I'm excited to hear what he has to say about stopping Josh Allen, but maybe they have him spying Josh a little bit to try to keep him under control. A little Wyoming on Wyoming action tonight. All right, we're talking about Sunday Night Football. Yeah, Wyoming, they're former teammates. So we'll talk about that. But you know, you and I had a decision to make editorially last week, and we said, do we wanna give space to the Panthers? Who we love, we were rooting for them. Sorry it didn't happen, they're officially eliminated. After being taken down by the Bucks in crazy comeback fashion, we'll get to that.