NFL schedule set up perfect Buccaneers, Panthers finish for NFC South standings originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. The NFL schedule makers like to backlog the calendar with divisional matchups. But even then, there's no guarantee that those games will have any meaning.

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Every television show and many other forms of entertainment schedule themselves to stay out of the ratings behemoth that is the NFL. College football is one of them. The sport already schedules most its marquee postseason event to avoid the NFL;

The Week 16 NFL schedule begins with a crucial Thursday Night Football showdown between the Seattle Seahawks and Los Angeles Rams. Those teams are tied for first place in the NFC West and the NFC, with the Rams listed as 1.

On Thursday Night Football on Dec. 18, the Seattle Seahawks and Los Angeles will play for the NFC West lead. On Saturday, Dec. 20, the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers face off with the NFC North lead at stake.

Through 15 weeks of the NFL season, the leader boards for offensive statistics have a lot of familiar names on it.

The Chargers (10-4) have one of the most brutal schedules in the NFL over the final three weeks of the season. Their game in Week 17 against the Texans could end determining which team ends up getting the higher playoff seed. For now, the computer has the Chargers locked in at the sixth spot.