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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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Shouts to work for keeping me swamped all last week/early this week, and missing out on any posts for this past week.

Short version, I was rooting for the Bills, and was pretty ambivalent about the NFC matchup (though slightly leaning Birds for @FiveHourMarathon ). Still took the Chiefs and Iggles in my pick'em league bc the Chiefs are unkillable and the Eagles are just a better team. Turned out to be how the games went, as the Eagles offense finally showed out this postseason en route to over 50 points against the Commies whilst the Chiefs squeaked by the Bills thanks to some high-level plays and a little help from the replay booth.

This one's for all the marbles. I think the Eagles are the better overall team, but between the Chiefs' inevitability and my rule of "always be wary of the team that crushed it's opponent in the conference championship," I am leaning towards picking the Chiefs if the line is a effectively a pick'em. Of course, the last Eagles team to win the Super Bowl did blow out their NFC Championship opponent, the Vikings who snuck into that game on the Minneapolis Miracle, so whether that rule will still hold up, who knows. The Eagles have the overall team advantage, the Chiefs have arguably the two most important advantages in coaching and quarterback play (although Hurts looks to have finally gotten past the injuries I believe were hampering his performance the past few weeks, which could narrow that gap). Should be a tightly-contested game; tentatively rooting for the Eagles, but expecting a close Chiefs win because they've managed to do it all year.

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