{"id":39886,"date":"2022-09-06T12:20:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T11:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nfl\/?p=39886"},"modified":"2022-09-06T12:43:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T11:43:44","slug":"2022-nfl-season-post-season-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nfl\/2022-nfl-season-post-season-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 NFL Season Post Season Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the 2022 NFL season about to kick off, it&#8217;s time for the obligatory postseason predictions. Fat too early we know, but hey it&#8217;s fun and we can always do a version two halfway through. Plus its always nice to look back either to brag, or wipe the egg off!<\/p>\n<h2>NFC<\/h2>\n<p>In the NFC we are quietly confident that Tampa &amp; Green Bay will repeat as divisional winners, with the former likely to get the No1 seed. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nfl\/category\/nfc-west\/\">NFC West<\/a> once again looks brutal and although we are tipping the Rams to win it both the 49ers &amp; Cardinals will be waiting for any slip-up.<\/p>\n<p>The NFC East has not been very good of late, however, this year both the Cowboys &amp; The Eagles look capable of making the postseason. We are tagging the eagles as Divisional winners, but again it could come down to head-to-head.<\/p>\n<p>The battle for the final Wildcard could be equally intense however we are pegging the perennial underachieving Vikings to edge that final slot.<\/p>\n<h2>NFC Playoff Seedings 1-7<\/h2>\n<p><strong>1 Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2 Green Bay Packers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>3 LA Rams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>4 Philadelphia Eagles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>5 San Francisco 49ers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>6 Dallas Cowboys<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>7 Minnesota Vikings<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>2021 NFL Wild Card Winners<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Green Bay over Minnesota<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>LA Rams over Dallas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>San Francisco 49ers o<\/strong><strong>ver Philadelphia<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>NFC Divisional Round<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Tampa Bay over San Francisco<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Green Bay over LA Rams<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>NFC Conference Final<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Green Bay over Tampa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bold prediction but we think that Green Bay&#8217;s inexperienced offense will be clicking by the time the playoffs arrive.<\/p>\n<h2>AFC<\/h2>\n<p>In the AFC only the east looks clear-cut, with the Bills looking like the team to beat. We have them down for the No 1 seed. Thereafter things could be close, both for the seedings and the divisions themselves. The AFC looks stacked going into 2022 and we can see a 10 win team missing out on the post season.<\/p>\n<h2>AFC Playoff Seedings 1-7<\/h2>\n<p><strong>1 Buffalo Bills<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2 Denver Broncos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>3<\/strong> <strong>Baltimore Ravens<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>4 Indianapolis Colts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>5 Cincinnati Bengals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>6 LA Chargers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>7 Kansas City Chiefs<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>2022 AFC Wild Card Winners<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Denver over Kansas City\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Baltimore over LA Chargers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cincinnati o<\/strong><strong>ver Indianapolis<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>AFC Divisional Round<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Buffalo over Cincinnati<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Denver over Baltimore<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>AFC Conference Final<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Buffalo over Denver<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Super Bowl 57 (LVII) &#8211; Winners<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Green Bay over Buffalo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Finally, Aaron Rodgers gets his second ring and loses that undeserved choker tag so beloved by the Facebook trolls.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_39729\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39729\" class=\"wp-image-39729 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/08\/shutterstock_83582323-5-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Aaron Rodgers\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/08\/shutterstock_83582323-5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/08\/shutterstock_83582323-5-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/08\/shutterstock_83582323-5-128x86.jpg 128w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/08\/shutterstock_83582323-5-32x21.jpg 32w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/08\/shutterstock_83582323-5-272x182.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/08\/shutterstock_83582323-5.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-39729\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: MPH Photos\/Shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFL\">NFL Twitter<\/a> for the latest updates<\/p>\n<p>Header Image: tishomir\/Shutterstock.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the 2022 NFL season about to kick off, it&#8217;s time for the obligatory postseason predictions. Fat too early we know, but hey it&#8217;s fun and we can always do a version two halfway through. Plus its always nice to look back either to brag, or wipe the egg off! NFC In the NFC we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2,3,7,34,24,29,39,93,46,44],"tags":[271],"class_list":["post-39886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afc-east","category-afc-north","category-afc-south","category-afc-west","category-nfc-east","category-nfc-north","category-nfc-south","category-nfc-west","category-nfl-playoffs","category-predictions","category-super-bowl","tag-2022-nfl-predictions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39886"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40692,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39886\/revisions\/40692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}