so if teams have already clinched this and that ,they lay off a bit right

Depends. The byes have not yet been secured, and exact seeding (and therefore home field advantage) is usually up in the air until the last game or two, so everyone's still got something to play for. And some coaches don't seem to know what "lay off" means.

so teams with a "z" next to their name on the nfl page haven't got homefield advantage yet,what else do they have to do out of interest

Basically, have the best record in their conference, i.e. be the #1 seed. If they can't manage that, being the #2 seed is a great consolation prize.

not sure why all the so called "experts" i look in on think new england will win but there you go,i'm going with the crowd 

People must be getting confused or becoming amnesiacs....

Just because New England pounds on cupcake teams does not mean they can beat the BALANCED Texans. This is the most interesting game of the week, and I cannot wait for New England to be EXPOSED.

Completley forgot about the game tonight until I saw it on in the bar.

Might change some picks later depending on injury reports for a couple star receivers.

Tonight was the first time that I have watched a Raiders game this year and man they are awful. I honestly can't say anything positive about them. Even McFadden seems to not care.

Broncos defense coming together at just the right time. As a Broncos fan I haven't been this excited about the defensive side of the ball in 6 or 7 years really, not since Al Wilson and Ian Gold were dominating at LB for us. I don't doubt they can beat anyone in the AFC, it really sucks that they played the better teams in the conference really early in the season when the offense was still coming together with Peyton and the defense was still making adjustments. Gonna be a big game in Baltimore next Sunday.