Action Network<\/a><\/p>\n2026 NFL Playoff Schedule<\/p>\n
Denver Broncos def. Buffalo Bills, 33-30 (OT)<\/p>\n
Seattle Seahawks def. San Francisco 49ers, 41-6<\/p>\n
New England Patriots def. Houston Texans, 28-16<\/p>\n
Los Angeles Rams vs. Chicago Bears, 6:30 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
AFC: New England Patriots at Denver Broncos 3 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
NFC: Los Angeles Rams at Seattle Seahawks, 6:30 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
AFC Champion vs. NFC Champion, 6:30 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
The game in New England featured a combined eight turnovers by both teams amid snowy conditions. However, the Patriots were able to capitalize on the Texans’ miscues throughout the day.<\/p>\n
Texans quarterback C.J. Stroud was frequently under heavy pressure behind an injury-depleted offensive line and threw four interceptions in the first half alone.<\/p>\n
Patriots quarterback Drake Maye had turnover issues of his own, throwing an interception and fumbling the ball four times, losing two of them. He managed to thrwo three touchdown passes to secure the victory in front of a raucous New England crowd.<\/p>\n
The Patriots will be playing in the AFC Championship for the first time since Tom Brady led them to their last Super Bowl win in the 2018 season. New England and Denver were the only teams besides Seattle to win 14 games this season, so next Sunday’s showdown will be the best of the best duking it out for the chance to go to the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n
In Chicago, the Rams escaped an overtime thriller against the Bears despite Williams throwing one of the most brilliant game-tying, fourth-down touchdown passes you’ll ever see late in the fourth quarter:<\/p>\n
But Williams giveth and Williams taketh away. His interception in overtime gave the Rams the chance to win with just a field goal and they took advantage, setting up a rubber match with the Seahawks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first half of the NFL’s conference championship weekend is officially set. The New England Patriots defeated the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-416266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}