49ers-Eagles<\/a>, the winning score took place with 2:54 remaining.<\/p>\nThe Rams-Panthers and Bills-Jaguars games each had four lead changes in the fourth quarter, just the fifth and sixth such playoff games in NFL history, and first since the Patriots-Chiefs AFC Championship Game in 2019.<\/p>\n
Then there\u2019s this final, crazy stat: Entering this year, NFL teams had lost 135 straight games when trailing by 15-plus points entering the fourth quarter. The Bears\u2019 win on Saturday was the sixth such comeback this season.<\/p>\n
Tracking former Patriots<\/p>\n
Bills WR Brandin Cooks: Two weeks after going for 101 yards against the Eagles, Cooks had three catches for 58 yards with a long of 36 in the win over the Jaguars. His immediate success in the offense shows how badly the Bills need more vertical speed for Allen.<\/p>\n
Jaguars WR Jakobi Meyers: Had his quietest game as a Jaguar since being acquired two months ago, catching just one of four passes for 12 yards. A tough end to another productive season.<\/p>\n
Bills LB Matthew Judon: Still hasn\u2019t been called up from the practice squad after four games.<\/p>\n
Bears G Joe Thuney: Was named first-team All-Pro on Saturday morning, then played all 78 snaps at night, helping Williams take just one sack in the win. It still boggles the mind that the Patriots let Thuney go.<\/p>\n
49ers WR Kendrick Bourne: Had zero targets in 22 snaps in the win over the Eagles and has gone two straight games without a catch.<\/p>\n
49ers DE Keion White: Had three tackles and a sack while playing 41 of 73 defensive snaps.<\/p>\n
Quick hits<\/p>\n
\u22c5 The Eagles oozed dysfunction all season, and it finally came to a head in the 23-19 loss to the 49ers, with A.J. Brown getting into a heated argument with coach Nick Sirianni, then dropping passes left and right. Offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo is going to take the fall, but Jalen Hurts\u2019s drop-off this season (10 games of fewer than 200 passing yards) was staggering.<\/p>\n
\u22c5 Rooting for Trevor Lawrence (three touchdowns, two interceptions Sunday) has to be maddening for Jaguars fans. At times he looks every bit a former No. 1 overall pick, and at other times he freezes and lacks all situational awareness.<\/p>\n
\u22c5 One second-guess for the Jaguars \u2014 they wasted too much clock on their final scoring drive, handing the ball back to Allen with 4:03 left and all three timeouts. Jaguars coach Liam Coen should have shown more urgency to score with about six minutes left.<\/p>\n
\u22c5 The Panthers have a Bryce Young problem. He was OK, with 264 passing yards, a touchdown, and an interception in the loss to the Rams, but he still looks physically overmatched. The Panthers made the playoffs and almost beat the Rams in spite of Young, and I have my doubts they\u2019re going to trigger his fifth-year option when the decision comes in May.<\/p>\n
\u22c5 Justin Herbert dropped to 0-3 in the playoffs, but this one wasn\u2019t on him. He had almost no help on offense, between a depleted offensive line and receivers who couldn\u2019t get open or hold on to the ball.<\/p>\n
\u201cWarrior,\u201d coach Jim Harbaugh called Herbert. \u201cHe just gives it everything he has all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u22c5 The 49ers and Rams both advancing is the worst-case scenario for the No. 1-seeded Seahawks \u2014 two teams that have no fear going into Seattle.<\/p>\n
\u22c5 The Rams are still a disaster on special teams, allowing a blocked punt in the fourth quarter to the Panthers. The Bears are ready to feast.<\/p>\n
\u22c5 Eagles cornerback Quinyon Mitchell has zero interceptions in 32 career regular-season games, and four interceptions in five playoff games.<\/p>\n
\u22c5 I don\u2019t mind Johnson screaming, \u201c[Expletive] the Packers,\u201d in the postgame locker room, but maybe the team\u2019s social media team should be more selective about releasing that footage. It was bush league.<\/p>\n
\u22c5 The Patriots joined the 1985 Bears as the only teams to allow no touchdowns, collect six sacks, and hold the opponent to fewer than 100 rushing yards and 150 net passing yards in a playoff game.<\/p>\n
With a Patriots vs. Bills faceoff in the cards, will Drake Maye or Josh Allen be Super Bowl QB material?<\/p>\n
Ben Volin can be reached at ben.volin@globe.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cOur guys are tough, resilient,\u201d McDermott said. \u201cWe couldn\u2019t be more proud.\u201d The Bills are peaking at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117,12004],"class_list":{"0":"post-118328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-jacksonville","9":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","10":"tag-jacksonville-news","11":"tag-patriots"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118328","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=118328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}