only if you finished the season 8-8, 9-7, or 10-6...or depends on the conclusions of games around your divisions on week 17.
Another answer:NFL teams can't end a season 6-6; they play 16 regular-season games.
But...since a winner goes from each of the eight divisions, it's hypothetically possible for an NFL team to make the playoffs even with a losing record, as long as it's the best record in the team's division.
This season, for example, it would be entirely possible for the Arizona Cardinals to win the NFC West (a weak division overall) with a season-ending record of 7-9.
No. The Texans have yet to make the American Football Conference playoffs.
This past season (2012) the Panthers went 7-9 and didn't make the playoffs.
The reason why the Patriots did not make the playoffs is because at least 1 team from each division goes into the playoffs; the one who wins the division always goes. The patriots went 11-5, and the Ravens went 11-5 (neither won their division) but the Ravens had a better division record, therefore they get the priority spot over the patriots.
New York Jets 2011 went to the afc championship 2012 didnt make the playoffs
In 2000, the Lions went 9-7 but did not make the playoffs. The Vikings and Buccaneers, still part of the NFC Central, won the division, the Giants won the NFC, and lost to the Ravens in the Super Bowl.
The Jets went 4-12 in 2007.
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1985 New York Mets who went 98-64 and did not make the playoffs. Next was the 1985 New York Yankees who went 97-64 and then the 1987 Toronto Blue Jays at 96-66.
the denver broncos went 11-5 in 1985 and failed to make the playoffs. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/den/1985.htm
the lakers went to the playoffs.