{"id":1811,"date":"2026-02-18T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/afc-seeding-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:00:00","slug":"afc-seeding-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/afc-seeding-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"How the AFC bracket was decided"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Denver Broncos finished top of the AFC at 14-3 and took the only bye in the conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The field<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. Denver Broncos 14-3 \u2014 2. New England Patriots 14-3 \u2014 3. Jacksonville Jaguars 13-4 \u2014 4. Pittsburgh Steelers 10-7 \u2014 5. Houston Texans 12-5 \u2014 6. Buffalo Bills 12-5 \u2014 7. Los Angeles Chargers 11-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Broncos went into the postseason on W2 in the AFC West and +90 on points, which is the number that usually predicts January better than the record does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coaches talk about complementary football until it sounds like a slogan. It stops sounding like one when a defence gets off the field on third down and hands the offence the ball at the far forty three times in a half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The standings page carries the whole table with the splits, the streaks and the dashed line under the seventh seed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Broncos took the top seed and the bye. The full AFC field, seed by seed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":3065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[92,50,93],"class_list":["post-1811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-standings-watch","tag-afc","tag-playoffs","tag-standings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}