Move over Mariah Carey. It's the bracketologist's time to shine.

With the holiday season firmly in the rearview mirror, the attention shifts to the 2025 NFL playoffs. For 14 NFL teams, they were gifted a spot in the postseason bracket under the tree. However, like a spoiled child, that won't be enough. The coveted gift is now the Lombardi Trophy, a limited-edition item that only one team gets each year.

Now it's up to the bracketologists to chart the path forward for each of those 14 teams, identifying the directions that a GPS could only dream of knowing.

There is still plenty of time before those bracket-experts are needed for March Madness though, making the NFL's a walk in the park compared to the future mayhem that awaits.

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