{"id":394767,"date":"2026-01-06T06:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T06:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/394767\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T06:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T06:33:07","slug":"nfl-playoff-schedule-wild-card-matchups-dates-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/394767\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL playoff schedule: Wild card matchups, dates, times"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first round of the NFL playoffs begins this week. While the Arizona Cardinals<\/a> are now embroiled in a search for a new head coach, there will be six playoff games this weekend \u2014 two on Saturday, three on Sunday and one on Monday.<\/p>\n

The Seattle Seahawks<\/a> in the NFC and the Denver Broncos<\/a> in the AFC will have the week off, earning the No. 1 seed in their respective conference, home-field advantage in the playoffs and a first-round bye.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

What does the schedule for Wild Card Weekend look like?<\/p>\n

NFL playoff wild card round schedule<\/p>\n

Saturday, Jan. 10<\/p>\n

Sunday, Jan. 11<\/p>\n

Los Angeles Chargers at New England Patriots, 8 p.m. ET (NBC)<\/p>\n

Monday, Jan. 12<\/p>\n

Get more Cardinals<\/a> and NFL coverage from Cards<\/a> Wire’s Jess Root and others by listening to the latest on the Rise Up, See Red podcast. Subscribe on Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0YouTube<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Apple podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Cards Wire: NFL playoff schedule: Wild card matchups, dates, times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first round of the NFL playoffs begins this week. While the Arizona Cardinals are now embroiled in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[1258,64,63,1261,1257,1248,1256,1243,1255,1237,3052,1263,1231,593,30843,1260,1241,210869,1262,1254,85,210870],"class_list":["post-394767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-chicago-bears","tag-denver-broncos","tag-green-bay-packers","tag-houston-texans","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-los-angeles-chargers","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-playoffs","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-playoff-games-this-weekend","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-seattle-seahawks","tag-sports","tag-wild-card-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394767","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=394767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}