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NFL playoff picture still blurry heading into Week 16

The cardboard boxes have a home game this week.

You just know the New England Patriots have dragged them down and up the Eastern Seaboard - boxes of AFC East champion T-shirts and hats - first hoping to break them out in Miami, then in Pittsburgh.

But the Patriots lost to the Dolphins in that wild ending two weeks ago, then at the Steelers on Sunday, so there was no occasion for locker-room festivities. That 10th consecutive AFC East title is still bound up in

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