The playoffs will kick off starting on Saturday and finishing days later, with six win-or-go-home games on the slate, and as we had last year, that includes a Monday night contest to finish it all up. As there was last year, there’s a streaming-only postseason game.

But a loss opens the door for the two other AFC teams in the hunt, the Cincinnati Bengals and Miami Dolphins. If both of those teams win in Week 18 and the Chiefs beat the Broncos, the Dolphins will be the No. 7 seed in the AFC. Denver is 9-7. The Dolphins and Bengals are 8-8.

The Kansas City Chiefs clinched the No. 1 seed in the AFC a few weeks back, and thus reseted their starters for the final regular season game against the Denver