After a weekend of football that was, even by the divisional round’s usual high standards, probably the best in NFL history, we can only imagine what’s left in store for the rest of the playoffs. The last stops on the road to the Super Bowl? To start, we’ve got the two-time defending AFC champs taking […]
sara.ziegler (Sara Ziegler, sports editor): We couldn’t have asked for much more from the divisional round of the NFL playoffs. We got three upsets, all won on last-second field goals by the road team, and the one game won by a favorite was perhaps the best playoff game in history. (Shut up, recency bias.) Let’s […]
The defending-champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers looked dominant in the wild-card round, outrushing the league’s No. 1 rushing attack, overwhelming one of the league’s best pass-blocking offensive lines and getting a clinical performance from quarterback Tom Brady. Now on a four-game win streak during which they’ve outscored opponents 132 to 62, the red-hot Bucs have a […]
Early in the second quarter of the Los Angeles Rams’ wild-card playoff game against the Arizona Cardinals, Rams head coach Sean McVay faced a third-and-2 at the Arizona 33-yard line with a 7-0 lead. Running back Cam Akers had just gained 3 yards rushing up the middle on the previous play, and he substituted out […]
Facing a third-and-goal in the second quarter of a Christmas Day game against the Cleveland Browns, the Green Bay Packers sent wideout Davante Adams into the slot. Cleveland brought a blitz, leaving him one-on-one with safety Richard LeCounte, and Adams did a samba on top of the hashmarks while Aaron Rodgers backpedaled and lofted a […]