Why each team left in the playoffs will or won’t win the Super Bowl

A look at one reason why each team left in the NFL playoffs will or won’t win the Super Bowl.

The 2021 NFL season is down to the final seven games, including Super Bowl LVI, and only eight teams remain: the Tennessee Titans, Kansas City Chiefs, Buffalo Bills and Cincinnati Bengals in the AFC, and the Green Bay Packers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers in the NFC.

One team will win the next three games and be declared the new champions.

To preview the final stretch of the season, the managing editors of the eight remaining teams in the NFL playoff field provided answers to two simple questions: Why will your team win the Super Bowl? And why won’t your team win the Super Bowl?

Here are the responses: