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NFL Weekly Thread: Post Season + Super Bowl

Let's chat about the National Football League. This thread will be dedicated to all post-season games, including the Super Bowl. This post will be updated with results and schedules going into February (All times Eastern):

Wildcard matchups:

2025-01-11:
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04:30PM: Los Angeles Chargers vs. Houston Texans
08:00PM: Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Baltimore Ravens

2025-01-12:
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01:00PM: Denver Broncos vs. Buffalo Bills, 
04:30PM: Green Bay Packers vs. Philadelphia Eagles
08:00PM: Washington Commanders vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers

2025-01-13
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08:00PM: Minnesota Vikings vs. Los Angeles Rams
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Als, bit of a sidenote but can we talk about how Philly managed to get all the best players from that Georgia Bulldogs squad?

They also have Kellee Ringo at 4th CB and gunner on punt returns, and they just added Lewis Cine off Buffalo's practice squad for fun. There's a theoretical lineup next year, with Dean healthy and Cine actually a part of the team, where they have UGA players at 6/11 spots on defense.

The discourse around the play has been that it single-handedly lost the game for the Ravens - and while it was the final nail in the coffin, I firmly believe they would have lost even if he held on. Hell, it didn't even give them the lead!

This is buzzer-beater discourse in general. Any time you have one play that decides the game, every other play decides the game just as much. Not only every play the Ravens missed on points, but every play the Bills missed on points. If the Bills get an extra field goal earlier in the game, then the play doesn't matter.

I highly suspect that Philly will beat Washington in the least convincing manner possible, then lose in the Super Bowl to either AFC team, so that the Eagles will manage to make two Super Bowls while still getting the "They haven't beaten anyone" treatment, and in the season between they'll have a historic collapse in a year they beat both the Chiefs on the road and the Bills in the rain.

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