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Falcons have 67 percent chance of making the playoffs

102515 NASHVILLE: -- Falcons general manager Thomas Dimitroff (left) and head coach Dan Quinn celebrate surviving the Titans for a 10-7 victory in a football game on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2015, in Nashville. Curtis Compton / ccompton@ajc.com
102515 NASHVILLE: -- Falcons general manager Thomas Dimitroff (left) and head coach Dan Quinn celebrate surviving the Titans for a 10-7 victory in a football game on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2015, in Nashville. Curtis Compton / ccompton@ajc.com
Nov 10, 2015

FLOWERY BRANCH -- Despite going 1-3 over their past four games, the Falcons still have some pretty good odds of reaching the playoffs.

The Falcons have a 67 percent  chance of making the playoffs and need to win 5 of the remaining 7 games to virtually clinch of a playoff berth, according to the www. makeNFLplayoffs.com.

The website is in its 8th year of providing statistics which calculates the chances each NFL team will make the playoffs.

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Honored by the Pro Football Hall of Fame in recognition of his "long and distinguished reporting in the field of pro football," D. Orlando Ledbetter, Esq. has covered the NFL 28 seasons. A graduate of Howard University, he's a winner of Georgia Sportswriter of the Year and three Associated Press Sports Editor awards.

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