NFL Playoff Bracket 2016: Divisional Schedule, Odds for Road to Super Bowl 50

We're down to eight.

After a batch of wild-card games that included a missed chip-shot field goal and the resurgence of Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, the NFL Divisional Round is set and the road to Super Bowl 50 advances.

The Seattle Seahawks kept their chances of a third straight Super Bowl appearance alive after a shocking miss by Minnesota Vikings kicker Blair Walsh, giving Seattle a 10-9 win over Minnesota. It wasn't that much of a disappointing day for the NFC North, as the Packers defeated the Washington Redskins and set up a rematch with the Arizona Cardinals in Glendale, Arizona.

Here's a look at the schedule for the Divisional Round, as well as the latest odds for the final eight teams looking to call themselves Super Bowl champions.

Arizona Cardinals	9/2
New England Patriots	9/2
Carolina Panthers	5/1
Denver Broncos	6/1
Seattle Seahawks	6/1
Pittsburgh Steelers	7/1
Kansas City Chiefs	24/1
Green Bay Packers	35/1

Games to Watch

Seattle Seahawks at Carolina Panthers

Finally, the Carolina Panthers will get a crack at the Seahawks at home.

The Panthers have had to travel to CenturyLink Field the last two times they've played the Seahawks, and the last time was the signature win of Carolina's season on Oct. 18 in a 27-23 win over Seattle.

The tables have now turned, and the Seahawks have to travel to Bank of America Stadium to play the No. 1-seeded Panthers in a divisional round matchup. Seattle and Carolina met last year in the divisional round, with the Seahawks winning, 31-17.

Carolina struggled to get over the hump and beat Seattle before that mid-October win improved the Panthers to 5-0. If Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch can't go against the Panthers, that will be an advantage in favor of Carolina. Seattle will need better than the 21-carry, 70-yard performance it received from Christine Michael against the Vikings.

But the key to the game, as USA Today's Nate Davis points out, will be Panthers quarterback Cam Newton attacking the Seattle secondary with tight end Greg Olsen:

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The Panthers stunned the Seahawks in Seattle on Oct. 18 with Newton's 26-yard TD pass to Pro Bowl TE Greg Olsen in the final minute of the fourth quarter giving Carolina a 27-23 win. However before that, the Seahawks had gone 5-0 against the Panthers since coach Pete Carroll's arrival in 2010. The Panthers were blown out in two playoff losses at Seattle following the 2005 and 2014 seasons. Look for Newton, who was intercepted twice in last year's playoff defeat, to target Olsen against Seahawks SS Kam Chancellor, especially if the Panthers become the latest team to stall on the ground against Seattle's top-ranked run defense.

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Newton, especially, will need to play better than his 269-yard, two-interception performance to beat this Seattle squad that is leaps and bounds better than the team Carolina played in Week 6. 

Kansas City Chiefs at New England Patriots

Over the course of the Kansas City Chiefs' 11-game winning streak, their quality of opponent hasn't been great. The two most notable wins came against a banged-up Pittsburgh Steelers team without quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and against the Denver Broncos with an injured Peyton Manning.

The Chiefs will finally get a chance to prove they're the real deal, going against Tom Brady and the defending Super Bowl champion New England Patriots on Saturday.

Kansas City made easy work of the Houston Texans on Saturday, picking off quarterback Brian Hoyer four times and winning a playoff game for the first time in 22 years. 

Congratulations, Chiefs. Your next task is to take down the Patriots in Foxborough, Massachusetts.

If there's any hope to be had for Kansas City, it's New England's lackadaisical offense the last two weeks. The Patriots only accumulated 284 yards against the New York Jets and an abysmal 196 yards in Week 17 against the Miami Dolphins.

Kansas City's defense is not the unit New England wants to face after those two weeks. And as far as head coach Bill Belichick is concerned, he doesn't see a weakness in the Chiefs right now, per Randy Covitz of the Kansas City Star:

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The fact they haven’t lost in so long, it’s not like you can go to a game and say, ‘Here’s how this team has defeated them.' That just doesn’t exist.

So we’ve got to figure out a way, and there’s not a great example on film. There are different things we can point to and different ideas or concepts of a certain part of the game that went well for one of Kansas City’s opponents. But overall, there’s nothing really to say, ‘This team found a way to do it.’

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The Chiefs' defense has allowed less than 300 yards three times in the last five games, including back-to-back sub-250-yard performances. Kansas City, now at full strength defensively with linebacker Justin Houston back, will have all of its pass-rushing weapons available against the Patriots.

The Chiefs will certainly need all hands on deck if they want to advance to the AFC Title game.