{"id":392134,"date":"2026-01-05T01:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T01:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/392134\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T01:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T01:08:07","slug":"nfl-week-18-live-scores-and-updates-playoff-bracket-as-broncos-clinch-afc-no-1-bears-and-eagles-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/392134\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 18 live scores and updates: Playoff bracket as Broncos clinch AFC No. 1, Bears and Eagles lose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was three years ago in the NFC Championship Game when the Philadelphia Eagles trounced the San Francisco 49ers 31-7 to advance to Super Bowl LVII. Brock Purdy was injured in that game, hindering San Francisco\u2019s chances. <\/p>\n<p>Three years later, these teams square off in the NFC wild-card round. Both teams lost in Week 18 of the regular season. Similar to that NFC Championship Game, Philadelphia will host this contest as the No. 3 seed.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles have never lost at home in the playoffs with Nick Sirianni as head coach. They will be in tough facing a high-powered offense in Purdy and Christian McCaffrey. With San Francisco dealing with a plethora of injuries on defense, the Eagles will look to take advantage, despite their inconsistent offense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was three years ago in the NFC Championship Game when the Philadelphia Eagles trounced the San Francisco&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-392134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}