| AFC Championship Game Cincinnati Bengals at Kansas City Chiefs | Arrowhead Stadium Kansas City, MO | 3:05pm ET CBS | Buy Tickets |
| NFC Championship Game San Francisco 49ers at Los Angeles Rams | SoFi Stadium Inglewood, CA | 6:40pm ET FOX | Buy Tickets |
SF can certainly beat the Rams, and Cincy beat the Chiefs a few weeks ago. It's certainly possible.
Yep. Chiefs are a slightly better team and the Bengals are a year early, but either you can cover Chase or you can’t. He’s capable of swinging the outcome, he’s that special.
Chiefs did hold Chase under 300 yards in the last game so they should be ok here
Ouch, the NFC Championship to you is like a Buffalo-Miami AFC Championship to us Pats fans. I feel for you. Go Bengals!
Sure, no doubt, and I hope it happens. Also hope the coming games are as entertaining as were this weekend’s games.
This is absolutely right. I've been watching the Pats since the late 70s and there's never been any bad blood whatsoever between the two teams. No reason at all to dislike Cincy. They've had a few clowns -- Burfict, Collinsworth, and Pacman come to mind -- but what team hasn't?
I always found him to be a bit arrogant and cocky on and off the field. Not the biggest jerk ever, but he was a bit of a smug tool.
This was in Cincinnati. The Bengals also benefitted greatly from Hill dropping a 60-yard bomb at the end of the half (it was broken up, but should've been caught ala Lee Evans). They also got away with multiple false starts on the final drive and the Chiefs were called for a very questionable personal foul on the drive early in the fourth that gave the Bengals the lead. It just feels like they used up all their bullets against them coming back and going to Arrowhead for an encore is an extremely tall task. But hey, it's total house money and Burrow can do almost anything with these weapons provided he has enough time, which is certainly easier said than done.
Agree with this take, I think we get two snoozers, but the Super Bowl that everyone wanted back in 2018 or whatever.
Yeah, this.
I doubt they’ll sack Burrow nine times, I suspect they’ll clean up some of the communication breakdowns and drill into Burrow that he needs to flush the ball earlier, but I think the pressure rate will be pretty high. KC’s pressure rate was 6th in the NFL (TEN 21st) this year.
Yeah, a lot of the sacks seemed to be on stunts (which is certainly a credit to Vrabel/Bowen) and on at least a couple it seemed like Burrow had to get it out quicker, especially when there's a free rusher. It's pretty crazy they finished that low in pressure rate - that front four is ferocious (Simmons is probably on Jones' level) and only Dupree missed any time. I thought the Bengals handled the edges pretty well last meeting, but Jones killed them and now the edge guys will have the crowd noise.
Slapping my forehead, if Collinsworth is a bad analyst, why is he paired with Al Michaels?
Also, they have some solid alumni: Boomer Esiason seems like a great guy and has supported the Pats through their dynasty years, Corey Dillon helped the Pats to a title, Ickey Woods seems like a really good guy (runs the Ickey Woods Foundation), and if Sam Wyche were still around to care, he seemed like a great guy.
Ramsey got dusted by Evans yesterday in a spot where all he had to do was not get beat over the top. He's not keeping up with Hill.
It'll give McVay the chance to lose SBs to the premiere defensive and offensive minds of this generation of coaches.
Not that that won't happen, but Evans and Hill are basically as polar opposite as you can be considering they are two of the best deep threat WRs in the game. Ramsay not keeping up with Evans doesn't necessarily mean that he won't perform better against Hill.
It is indeed a myth. Since 1970 there has been 22 playoff meetings between division opponents in which one team swept the season series, and the team that swept in the regular season won the playoff game 14 times. Historically the team that swept the season series is nearly twice as likely to win the playoff game.
Isn’t Ramsey more of a boundary corner? Hill is such an impossible cover because they move him around so much, especially crossing over the middle, and he just knifes through defenses. Ramsey does have physicality so he might be able to disrupt the timing of Hill’s route. Should be fun to watch if it happens.
Ramsey can play anywhere ... which is why he might be a better matchup on Kelce. I'd put Ramsey on Kelce, have my fastest DB shadow Hill with dedicated safety help, and take my chances with the other dudes.
Agree on the Kelce matchup. Feel like I see Ramsey mostly on the outside when I watch him but admittedly that’s only been a few games this year.
As I posted in the other thread, if SF can win on Sunday (please!) it will be actually 7 straight against the Rams.
