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The Bengals beat the Chiefs in Week 17 and the 49ers beat the Rams in Week 18, but the Bengals and 49ers will be underdogs for the upcoming conference championship rematches. The Chiefs are favored by seven points over the Bengals in the AFC Championship Game, and the Rams are favored by three points over [more]

In 25 hours on the greatest playoff weekend in the 102-year history of professional football, the headlines, one by one, kept overtaking the last one: BENGALS KNOCK OFF 1 SEED TO REACH FIRST AFC TITLE GAME SINCE 1988 NINERS KNOCK OFF 1 SEED ON 45-YARD FIELD GOAL AT :00 RODGERS’ FUTURE UNCERTAIN; WON’T SAY IF [more]

Shane Wright is expected to be the top pick in the 2022 NHL Draft and on Sunday night he scored one of the coolest goals you will ever see.

The divisional round delivered. In every way possible. Four games. Four walk-off endings. But the best of the quartet of high-stakes postseason games left an unsatisfying feeling for everyone except the Chiefs and their fans. The overtime rule no longer makes sense. A first-drive touchdown shouldn’t end the game. Not with the rules so skewed [more]

The Steelers’ search for a new defensive coordinator has begun. The team has requested to interview Giants defensive coordinator Patrick Graham, Tom Pelissero of NFL Media reports. The Giants are looking for a new head coach after firing Joe Judge, but their staff remains under contract for now. Graham spent the past two years as [more]

What a game! What a weekend! The first three divisional games came down to a last-play field goal. The fourth ended on an overtime touchdown in one of the best games in NFL history. Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes had a duel for the ages. The Chiefs and Bills combined for 25 points in the [more]

The Bills twice thought they had the divisional round game in Kansas City won. The Chiefs thought they had it won once. As it turns out, the duel of the ages between Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes is headed to overtime. The Chiefs and Bills combined for 25 points in the final two minutes. They [more]

Tyreek Hill didn’t have a punt return in the regular season. He had one for minus-8 yards last week against the Steelers. The Chiefs sent Hill out to return a Matt Haack punt early in the fourth quarter. He had a 13-yard return to the Kansas City 44, but offsetting penalties led to a do-over. [more]

Tatum made nine 3-pointers and shot 18 of 28 from the field.

Tom Brady claimed this week that he doesn’t get special treatment when it comes to roughing the passer fouls. His contention found support on Sunday, when he took a helmet to the chin from Von Miller, without a foul being called. Instead, a foul was called on Brady for his reaction to the absence of [more]

Grayson Allen will lose $28,000. Alex Caruso is out 6-8 weeks following wrist surgery.

The Chiefs have scored on their first two possessions of the second half. The Bills went three-and-out, punting on fourth-and-one, but finally answered with a bomb on their second possession of the half. Thus, Kansas City has a 23-21 lead late in the third quarter. Harrison Butker kicked a 39-yard field goal on the opening [more]

The Chiefs trailed the Bills 24-13 at halftime of Week 5. They are tied 14-14 at intermission of Sunday’s divisional round playoff game after Harrison Butker missed a 50-yard field goal wide right on the final play of the first half. The Bills gained 71 yards on their opening drive. They had only 101 with [more]

With no locker room access for reporters and only a handful of players available for video conferences that aren’t conducive to asking probing questions aimed at getting candid responses (especially not off the record responses), the pandemic has helped keep plenty of stories under wraps, for plenty of NFL teams. After Sunday’s season-ending loss to [more]

The Chiefs will play the rest of the game without star safety Tyrann Mathieu. The team ruled him out with a concussion. On the Bills’ first drive, Mathieu’s helmet collided with teammate Jarran Reed‘s leg. Mathieu immediately grabbed the back of his head. Mathieu was quickly examined in the blue medical tent before leaving for [more]

The Rams hadn’t even assured their presence in the NFC Championship Game before making an announcement intended to keep 49ers fans from packing SoFi Stadium for the second time in three weeks. Ticketmaster, the NFL’s ticketing site, posted that “public sales to the (NFC Championship) game at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, CA will be restricted [more]

Patrick Mahomes passed for only 11 yards on the Chiefs’ first possession, but he used his legs to get Kansas City on the board. Kansas City tied the Bills 7-7 on Mahomes’ 8-yard touchdown run and Harrison Butker‘s PAT. Mahomes dove for the pylon, touching it with the ball for the score. The first quarter [more]

Things definitely have changed for Tom Brady. After consistently insisting that he’ll play in 2022, it all has changed. Following Sunday’s loss to the Rams, Brady did not repeat what he said throughout the 2021 season — that he’ll definitely play next year. “I haven’t put a lot of thought into it,” Brady told reporters. [more]

Quarterback Tom Brady may not be playing in 2022, but coach Bruce Arians will be coaching. Arians told reporters after Sunday’s loss to the Rams in the divisional round that he’ll be back next year. “Oh yeah,” Arians said, via Sarah Walsh of NFL Network. Whether he’ll have Brady or someone else at quarterback remains [more]

Bills punter Matt Haack is not earning his keep. The Bills didn’t punt last week against the Patriots. They didn’t punt in Week 16 or 17 either. The Bills also didn’t punt on their first drive Sunday. Buffalo, though, had to convert two fourth downs after going 0-for-2 on third down. The first conversion came [more]

The Super Bowl will be in Los Angeles, and now the road to the Super Bowl in the NFC will go through Los Angeles. The Rams defeated the Buccaneers today in Tampa Bay in an absolute classic of an NFL playoff game, and the Rams will host the 49ers in the NFC Championship Game next [more]

With the Buccaneers scrambling to the line and facing fourth-and-1 in the final minute, Rams coach Sean McVay made a bizarre decision: He called timeout. That gave the Buccaneers’ offense time to regroup and get their best play called, and the best play was a handoff to Leonard Fournette, who took the ball and coasted [more]

The Rams have been dominating all day. But it’s not over yet. A Tom Brady-to-Mike Evans touchdown pass in the fourth quarter has suddenly made today’s game interesting, with the Rams leading just 27-20 in a game they once led 27-3. Brady has a long history of finding ways to win in the postseason, and [more]

49ers defensive coordinator DeMeco Ryans’ name should be hotter today than it was yesterday before his defense dominated Aaron Rodgers and the Packers. Ryans had an interview with Vikings on Sunday, the eighth coach to talk to the team remotely. Minnesota is seeking a replacement for Mike Zimmer, whom it fired Jan. 10. General Manager [more]

Chiefs receiver Josh Gordon is a healthy scratch for the second consecutive week. In the final three games of the regular season, he played a combined 41 snaps and caught one pass for 5 yards. The Chiefs also will play without cornerback Rashad Fenton (back) and running back Darrel Williams (toe). Both players were questionable [more]