The Divisional Round of the NFL playoffs concludes on Sunday with the Houston Texans facing the New England Patriots in the AFC and the Los Angeles Rams meeting the Chicago Bears in the NFC.<\/p>\n
Use this thread to discuss all of Sunday\u2019s playoff action.<\/p>\n
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No. 5 Houston Texans\u00a0(13-5) at\u00a0No. 2 New England Patriots\u00a0(15-3)<\/p>\n
New England defeated the Los Angeles Chargers, 16-3, on Wild Card Weekend to secure their first postseason win since Super Bowl LIII (Feb. 3, 2019, against the Los Angeles Rams). Houston earned its first road playoff win in franchise history with a 30-6 win at Pittsburgh and advanced to the Divisional playoffs for the third straight season, the longest such streak in team history.<\/p>\n
What:\u00a0AFC Divisional playoffs No. 5 Los Angeles Rams\u00a0(13-5) at\u00a0No. 2 Chicago Bears\u00a0(12-6)<\/p>\n Last week, Chicago overcame an 18-point deficit \u2013 the largest comeback in Chicago postseason history \u2013 and scored 25 fourth quarter points \u2013 the third-most ever in a playoff game \u2013 to defeat Green Bay, 31-27, for its first postseason win since the 2010 NFC Divisional round (Jan. 16, 2011, against Seattle). In the Wild Card round, the Rams earned their first road postseason victory since the 2021 Divisional Playoffs (Jan. 23, 2022, at Tampa Bay) with a 34-31 win over the Panthers.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n The two teams have not met in a postseason game in 40 years. The last meeting came when the Bears defeated the Rams 24-0 in the 1985 NFC Championship Game.<\/p>\n What:\u00a0NFC Divisional playoffs
When:\u00a0Sunday, Jan. 18
Where:\u00a0Gillette Stadium
Time:\u00a03 p.m. ET
TV:\u00a0ESPN\/ABC
Announcers:\u00a0Joe Buck, Troy Aikman, Lisa Salters \/ Laura Rutledge (field reporter)
Streaming:\u00a0ESPN+\/ESPN Deportes
Radio:\u00a0Sirius XM\u00a0\u2014 National: Channel 88 | Texans: Channel 812 | Patriots: Channel 821| Spanish Radio: Channel 832 ;\u00a0Westwood One\u00a0\u2014 John Sadak, Jason McCourty
Referee:\u00a0Shawn Smith
FanDuel Odds<\/a>:\u00a0Patriots -3
Weather<\/a>:\u00a034 degrees. A chance of snow before 2 a.m.. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 22. West wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible.<\/p>\n
When:\u00a0Sunday, Jan. 18
Where:\u00a0Soldier Field
Time:\u00a06:30 p.m.
TV:\u00a0NBC
Announcers:\u00a0Mike Tirico, Cris Collinsworth, Melissa Stark \/ Kaylee Hartung (field reporters)
Streaming:\u00a0Peacock
Radio:\u00a0Sirius XM\u00a0\u2014 National: Channel 88 | Rams: Channel 818 | Bears: Channel 805 | Spanish Radio: Channel 832;\u00a0Westwood One\u00a0\u2014 One: Kevin Harlan, Ross Tucker
Referee:\u00a0Shawn Hochuli
FanDuel Odds<\/a>:\u00a0Rams -3.5
Weather<\/a>:\u00a018 degrees. A chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 4. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New snow accumulation of less than half an inch possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Divisional Round of the NFL playoffs concludes on Sunday with the Houston Texans facing the New England…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[221946,64,63,1248,221948,1255,100867,3052,1263,5384,1231,221947,593,30843,5357,5132,221949,5142,85],"class_list":["post-421737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-afc-divisional-playoffs","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chicago-bears","tag-divisional-playoffs","tag-houston-texans","tag-jason-mccourty","tag-los-angeles-chargers","tag-los-angeles-rams","tag-new-england","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfc-divisional-playoffs","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-playoffs","tag-panthers","tag-pittsburgh","tag-postseason-game","tag-seattle","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421737","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=421737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}