While the Denver Broncos and Los Angeles Chargers have been headed in different directions over the last month, their destination at the end of the season (at least before Week 16) appears to be the same: the AFC playoffs. With a win on Thursday night, the Broncos – winners of four straight games – can make it official, while the Chargers – losers of three of their last four – can maintain their distance between the bottom of the AFC wild-card list and the last-place teams look from the outside in.

LA is limping into its Thursday Night Football Week 16 opener after a 40-17 home loss to the surging Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Getting rid of that as quickly as possible could be a good opportunity for the Chargers, who have two games to play this week Colts, Dolphins and Bengals compete for the final wild card spot. Denver – which beat the Colts last week with Bo Nix’s three-touchdown-pass, three-interception performance – has found a way to push its win streak to four and would like to carry that momentum into a season-ending mini-bye with one Playoff transferred With two games to go, the place is in hand.

In Week 6, the Chargers won the teams’ first meeting in Denver 23:16. Justin Herbert threw for 237 yards and one touchdown pass in that win.

• Time: 8:15 p.m. ET

• Location: SoFi Stadium | Inglewood, California.

• Streaming: Amazon Prime Video