AFC Update

Despite a home loss last week to the San Diego Chargers, the Denver Broncos are still ahead in the race for the AFC “one seed.”

If (11-3) Denver wins games at (2-12) Houston and (4-10) Oakland the next two weeks, they will be the AFC top seed for a second straight season.

Both the (10-4) New England Patriots and (9-5) Cincinnati Bengals lost leaving the Pats ahead for the two seed. However, New England lost a chance to stay ahead in the battle for the one seed.

Both the (11-3) Kansas City Chiefs and the (9-5) Indianapolis Colts won and they face each other this week in Kansas City. Each could move up but likely will face each other again two weeks later at Indy, in an AFC wild card round game.

Speaking of the wild card, the (8-6) Baltimore Ravens stayed ahead in the race for the AFC’s final playoff spot when Justin Tucker kicked his 6th field goal of the game, a 61 “yarder” as Baltimore edged the floundering Detroit Lions.