Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes hurt his ankle early in the divisional game against the Jacksonville Jaguars, and after initially being questionable to return, he went back in for the second half and played through the rest of the game, helping lead the Chiefs to a 27-20 win. After the game, Mahomes said there is no official prognosis and …
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What we learned from 2023 NFL playoffs divisional round, Day 2: Joe Burrow, Bengals are Chiefs’ biggest threat
The next wave of NFL playoff football has just about washed over us. The divisional round kicked off Saturday with a pair of regular-season rematches — the Chiefs edging the Jaguars with a banged-up Patrick Mahomes, and the Eagles steamrolling the Giants for a clean sweep of their 2022 series. On Sunday, the AFC and NFC Championship matchups were decided …
Read More »Cowboys vs. 49ers live updates: NFC divisional round on FOX
National Football League 3 mins ago The NFL divisional round continues Sunday on FOX, as the NFC’s fifth-seed Dallas Cowboys face the second-seed San Francisco 49ers at Levi’s Stadium in sunny Santa Clara, California. The winner will go on to face the Philadelphia Eagles next weekend for a spot in Super Bowl LVII in Arizona. Earlier, the third-seed Cincinnati Bengals …
Read More »Joe Burrow after Bengals spoil neutral-site AFC title game: ‘Better send those refunds’
By beating the Buffalo Bills in the divisional round on Sunday, the Cincinnati Bengals punched a ticket to the AFC title game for the second season in a row. In the process, Joe Burrow and the Bengals spoiled the NFL’s plans for a neutral-site AFC championship game between the Bills and Kansas City Chiefs, planned for Atlanta after rule changes …
Read More »Peyton Hendershot inactive for Cowboys, but Jayron Kearse will play
The Cowboys listed only one player as questionable for today’s divisional round playoff game, and safety Jayron Kearse will play. Kearse has a knee injury that limited him to 42 of 82 snaps last week, and he was limited in practice all week. But he guaranteed that he would play, calling it “100 percent.” Kearse made 77 tackles, one interception, …
Read More »Cowboys’ Brett Maher shaky in warmups ahead of 49ers game; Jerry Jones talks to veteran kicker on field
Dallas Cowboys kicker Brett Maher had himself an awful game last week against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, On each of the Cowboys’ first four touchdowns, Maher missed the extra point. He pushed the first two kicks wide to the right, then pulled the third one wide to the left. On the fourth kick, he hit the outside of the upright. He …
Read More »2023 Eagles playoff notebook: Key facts, figures, MVPs, top stories from Philly’s march to NFC championship
The Eagles demolished their division rival Giants on Saturday night, claiming a 38-7 divisional round victory and the most lopsided win of the 2023 NFL playoffs, as well as franchise history. Frankly, it was never a contest. Now, the team is one win away from making its second Super Bowl appearance in five seasons. With that in mind, here’s a …
Read More »Saints assistant Declan Doyle to coach Senior Bowl tight ends prospects
We now know what another one of the New Orleans Saints coaches will be doing at the upcoming Senior Bowl in Mobile, Ala.. Offensive assistant Declan Doyle was announced as the American Team’s tight ends coach for the event, where he’ll work with 2023 draft prospects for a week of practices leading up to the college all-star game. The American …
Read More »Where is Super Bowl 2023: Location, date, time, TV channel for Super Bowl 57 at State Farm Stadium
The Super Bowl isn’t going away from its mid-February time slot since the NFL expanded the regular season from 16 to 17 games. If you thought Super Bowl LVI had a late start date (February 13 was the latest Super Bowl ever played), there’s good news on the horizon. Super Bowl LVII will be played a day earlier in 2023, …
Read More »Cowboys battle 49ers in heavyweight NFC divisional round clash
Nick Bosa (97) and the 49ers face the Cowboys for the right to go to the NFC championship game in the finale of NFL divisional-round weekend. (AP Photo/Scot Tucker, File) Many consider the NFL playoffs divisional round to be the best weekend in football. If that’s the case, we might have saved the best matchup for last. The Dallas Cowboys …
Read More »Top in-state running back for 2025 visits Auburn
One of the top running back prospects in the nation for 2025 has visited the Plains. Alvin Henderson, a running back prospect out of Elba, Alabama, visited Auburn and met with coach Hugh Freeze on Saturday. Henderson doesn’t have an official ranking from 247Sports as a 2025 recruit, but he’s drawn a lot of interest from some of the nation’s …
Read More »Damar Hamlin joins Bills in locker room at halftime of divisional round playoff game vs. Bengals
Icon Sportswire Buffalo safety Damar Hamlin is at the Bills’ Highmark Stadium to support his team ahead of their divisional playoff game against the Cincinnati Bengals. It comes 20 days after Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest on the field during a Monday night game between the Bills and Bengals. The Bills tweeted a video of Hamlin arriving in a security vehicle, writing, …
Read More »Bengals vs. Bills: Ja’Marr Chase’s touchdown overturned on controversial call in AFC divisional round game
Getty Images For an instant, it appeared the Bengals had taken a 20-7 lead over the Bills late in the first half of Sunday’s divisional round playoff showdown. But the officials overruled Joe Burrow’s 10-yard strike to Ja’Marr Chase after determining Chase had failed to maintain control of the ball. Instead of taking a two-touchdown lead, the Bengals had to …
Read More »Bengals lead Bills 17-7 at halftime
The Bengals have been in control throughout the first half of Sunday’s divisional matchup with the Bills and lead 17-7 at halftime. But an overturned touchdown kept the score closer than it could have been. With 1:55 left on the clock in the second quarter, quarterback Joe Burrow appeared to hit receiver Ja’Marr Chase with a 10-yard touchdown pass on …
Read More »Bills vs. Bengals expert picks: Odds, spread, total, player props, TV channel, streaming for 2023 NFL playoffs
The Cincinnati Bengals and Buffalo Bills will duke it out later today at Highmark Stadium with a trip to the AFC Championship game on the line. This is a matchup between two of the conference’s juggernauts that each boast high-powered offenses, headlined by some of the NFL’s top quarterback talents in Joe Burrow and Josh Allen. These two teams did …
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