{"id":112163,"date":"2026-01-09T18:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/112163\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T18:59:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:59:12","slug":"three-must-know-storylines-for-sundays-playoff-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/112163\/","title":{"rendered":"Three must-know storylines for Sunday&#8217;s playoff game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday&#8217;s playoff slate kicks off with one of the more intriguing matchups of Wild Card Weekend as the sixth-seeded Buffalo Bills go on the road to face the No. 3 Jacksonville Jaguars.<\/p>\n<p>It will settle the score of an all-time series matchup that&#8217;s even at 10 wins apiece, including playoffs (Jaguars, 2-0). The Bills have lost their last three games in Jacksonville, including a wild-card game in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The Jaguars are undefeated (3-0) at home in the Wild Card Round, the last win being a <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/jaguars-come-back-from-27-point-deficit-to-stun-chargers-advance-to-afc-division\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">historic 27-point comeback<\/a> against the Chargers in 2022. That game was the last playoff win for the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville will look to stay perfect on Sunday while extending a streak of eight straight wins to conclude the 2025 regular season &#8212; the second-longest win-streak in franchise history. The Jaguars boast an NFL-best +153 point differential since Week 11.<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo, winners of five of its last six games, appears in the playoffs for the seventh straight season, looking to go a step further than last season&#8217;s AFC Championship Game appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday&#8217;s playoff slate kicks off with one of the more intriguing matchups of Wild Card Weekend as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5267,22207,7874,116,118,121,117,115,5265,5269],"class_list":["post-112163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-game-preview","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-news","tag-no-minute","tag-regular-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}