{"id":463078,"date":"2025-12-21T22:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/463078\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T22:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T22:38:12","slug":"how-the-chargers-can-clinch-a-playoff-spot-in-week-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/463078\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Chargers Can Clinch a Playoff Spot in Week 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chargers are now 11-4 and are on the cusp of clinching a playoff spot for the second year in a row under Jim Harbaugh.<\/p>\n<p>The Bolts picked up a 34-17 win over the Cowboys on Sunday, which was the first step to the Chargers potentially clinching in Week 16.<\/p>\n<p>The Bolts are currently the No. 5 seed in the AFC playoff picture and hold the first Wild Card spot.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at how the Chargers can clinch a playoff spot in Week 16 after Sunday&#8217;s win.<\/p>\n<p>The Texans lose or tie against the Raiders.<\/p>\n<p>The Colts lose to the 49ers.<\/p>\n<p>The Colts tie with the 49ers.<\/p>\n<p>The Texans host the Raiders Sunday afternoon at 1:25 p.m. (PT) while the Colts host the 49ers on Monday Night Football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chargers are now 11-4 and are on the cusp of clinching a playoff spot for the second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":463079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49467,51,11822,49987,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-463078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-app-homepage","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-homepage-cp","11":"tag-homepage-headlines","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115759959630703139","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}