The NFL’s first ever 18-week regular season has concluded and the playoffs are set to begin next weekend. With the final spots being decided in a Sunday Night Football thriller, we now know where everyone’s going and when they’ll be playing next.
Super Wild Card Weekend starts with the lower AFC Seeds on Saturday. We begin with the 5-Seed Las Vegas Raiders (10-7) as they head to Ohio to play the AFC North Champion 4-Seed Cincinnati Bengals (10-7) at 4:30PM ET. We follow that up with the 6-Seed New England Patriots (10-7) who head to upstate New York for their third match up of the season against the AFC East Champion 3-Seed Buffalo Bills at 8:15PM ET.
On Sunday, we see some NFC teams early to start out. Sunday kicks off with the 7-Seed Philadelphia Eagles (9-8) heading to Central Florida to face off against the NFC South Champion 2-Seed Tampa Bay Buccaneers (13-4) at 1:00PM ET. After that, the 6-Seed San Francisco 49ers (10-7) go into the Lone Star State to face off against the NFC East Champion 3-Seed Dallas Cowboys (12-5) at 4:30PM ET. We finish off Sunday night with the 7-Seed Pittsburgh Steelers (9-7-1) traveling into Missouri to play the AFC West Champion 2-Seed Kansas City Chiefs (12-5) at 8:15PM ET.
We’ll end our Super Wild Card Weekend on Monday Night, when the 5-Seed Arizona Cardinals (11-6) head back to SoCal for their third game of the season versus the NFC West Champion 4-Seed Los Angeles Rams (12-5) at 8:15PM ET.
Constructive critcism. Make a flow or a graphic instead of typing all the info (seeding, teams, location, time). Or make a date with bullet points like you for transactions. Putting all the info in one paragraph is hard to read in the current version of the article.
Reading is hard.
So, apparently, is civility.
Moreso presentation matters. Youre trying to attract customers and viewers. Putting together a structured summary of the games draws in readers more than paragraphs.
Joey, its difficult to do a bracket layout when reseeding happens after each round. I’m not sure what better graphic could be used.
Id do an article for each round honestly. One for wild card one for divisional one for championship. For the superbowl id do special articles for each team like roster construction. Just make the layout of how you present the games more userface friendly.
Itd be interesting to see how each team constructed the starters at the very least. Maybe some guys came via trade or from draft picks from trade.
Well, all that would be good but for a separate piece at another time. The point of this article, however, was simply to list all of the wild card matchups.
I agree. I have never seen a stranger way to depict playoff information. But I’m not sure why I didn’t just go to ESPN or NFL.COM
Because those are two of the worst sites ever created, particularly nfl.com
It’s amazing how poorly NFL.com runs isn’t it? Spending all that money on a site to turn it into a frankenstein of cludgy services and endless ads. I read about the NFL here and watch any highlights on YouTube.com (reluctant premium members but YouTube is pretty great without the ads, let me tell you, I use it mainly for tutorials and film trailers).
Great idea about including more tables and more structured information at ProFootballRumors.com.
Thank you Daniel Carlson
Raiders win
Bills win
Bucs win
Cowboys win
Chiefs win
Cardinals win
set up for
Cardinals Packers (Cardinals)
Cowboys Bucs (Cowboys)
Raiders Titans (Raiders)
Bills Chiefs (Bills)
and then
Cardinals Cowboys (Cowboys)
Raiders Bills (Bills)
then just like the 90s
Cowboys over Bills
Ok Andy, just enjoy the off-season counting your money the bears should have never paid you
About right but I’ve got sf
that’s fine not a fan of any of these teams
Kinda doubt the Raiders beat The Bengals in Cincinnati. I also kinda doubt that a team other than the Green Bay Packers is going to win the Super Bowl. However, Covid could wipe out any teams chances at any time so ultimately its a bit of a crapshoot.
Green Bay is overrated and has next to zero chance of winning the Super Bowl
Lol….cards couldn’t beat GB at home. They’re not going to win at Lambeau in Jan.
Niners win
Eagles win
Rams win
Bengles win
Bills win
Chiefs win
I’d love that . Hope outcome is same .Cowboys !
I see we have a typical deluded Cowboys fan here
not a Cowboys fan. My team is the Broncos
Carlson why…
Once again we see bad scheduling and you have to wonder if the league is trying to manipulate results. Why are the Bucs required to play 3 hours earlier than their normal home game time? That game should be in the time slot the Bills/Pats hold and the two AFC East teams should be playing 1pm Sunday which is the norm for them.
Whaaat?
Unless that’s a sarcastic dig at the number of prime time games the Bucs get, I don’t follow you. Tampa Bay is playing in a traditional East Coast time slot. Plus Buffalo vs. New England is the more marquee game, which is likely why it gets the prime slot on Saturday.
This is not an isolated case. In the 2019 playoffs the Saints were required to host the Vikings in a 1 pm time slot. It’s the only time in their entire history they had to play a home game 3 hours earlier than the normal time. Not surprisingly, they were victims of an upset as a result of that poor scheduling.
The Saints played 9 games at the 1pm time slot that year (not counting the playoff game) lol. Maybe you should take a look at a map sometime, Florida and Louisiana are on/closer to the East Coast.
Saints lost in brutal secondary defense on last play touchdown
“We WOULD have been Super Bowl Champs but they made us get up too early!” is a weird claim.
Overcoming adversity and all that…
At first glance it may seem silly but game times are important. If they weren’t the league wouldn’t make allowances for west coast teams traveling cross country. They’ve always scheduled those games later than 1pm ET when possible so teams had more time to adjust to jet lag.
Bucs normally play at 1 hoss
Rams wont last long. Cant stop the run, cant pass block, and throw too many interceptions.
Hate to see all these “playing 3 times in a season” match-ups.
Doesn’t happen that often. The last team to sweep an opponent 3x and win a championship was the Steelers in 2008.
I clearly missed something…tell me where I am wrong or what I am missing…
For the longest time, NFL OT was sudden death. You win a coin toss and kick a FG, you win. Game over.
Then Favre’s career ended on the bench and they changed the playoff OT rules. If the first team got a FG, the other team got a possession and had to score a TD to win.
Then, I guess somewhere along the way these rules were used for regular season, as well.
BUT…when did it become a thing where the first team kicks a FG, then the second does as well and they just keep playing?
Was I wrong that you used to need a TD to win in OT after the first team kicks a FG or did they change the rule?
You are wrong. But true that OT has changed a few times.
If the Chargers dont fire their coach then there is no justice in the world. What a dufus.