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Sun Life Stadium. XLIII Santonio Holmes. XLII XLI Dolphin Stadium. XL Hines Ward. XXXIX Deion Branch. Dexter Jackson. Qualcomm Stadium. XXXVI Louisiana Superdome. XXXV XXXIV Pro Player Stadium. XXXII XXXI Desmond Howard. XXX Larry Brown. Sun Devil Stadium. XXIX Joe Robbie Stadium. XXVII XXVI Mark Rypien. XXV Ottis Anderson. XXIV XXIII XXII Doug Williams. Watt will line up against right tackle, which is the weakest spot on Kansas City's line.

Week 1 starter Lucas Niang lost his job and went down in December with a torn patella. Swing tackle Mike Remmers is on injured reserve with a back issue. Andrew Wylie , who started at right tackle in the Super Bowl loss to the Buccaneers, will be the starter against the likely Defensive Player of the Year. Key players such as Orlando Brown Jr. Losing Hill allows opposing defenses to squeeze the field, creating more opportunities for the tipped interceptions that plagued Kansas City during the first half of the season.

Few teams in the NFL are better at creating interceptions on a year-to-year basis on those sorts of plays than the Steelers. The problem for the Steelers is that there isn't much doing on the other side of the ball.

It would be one thing if we could count on them to pick up a blocked punt for a score or a short field, as they did in the Week 1 win over the Bills , but the Chiefs have the league's third-best special teams unit. The Steelers don't have the offensive line to protect Ben Roethlisberger , the running game to control the clock or the consistent big-play ability to scare the Chiefs in coverage.

This could be closer than expected, but I would expect Roethlisberger's career to end here. Prediction: Chiefs 24, Steelers These teams have played twice since the start of December, with the Patriots overcoming howling winds to win in Buffalo before the Bills returned the favor with a victory in Foxborough, Massachusetts.

Western New York is expected to face subzero conditions Saturday night, but the wind gusts that rendered the passing game irrelevant in Week 13 aren't expected to be in place.

Unfortunately for the Patriots, opening up the passing game reveals the biggest advantage between these two teams. Josh Allen played one of the best games of his career in the win over New England, threading immaculate passes through tight windows against one of the league's best defenses.

He has been inconsistent over the past month -- he followed that Patriots game by going of for three picks in a win over the Falcons -- but we know he typically has the sort of ceiling that rookie Mac Jones hasn't really shown so far. If the Patriots can get an early lead, as they did against the Bills in the first matchup, they won't need to take the training wheels off Jones and the passing attack. Forced into a shootout, he has not often been able to keep up.

Even in the overtime loss to the Cowboys, he threw just 21 pass attempts. Jones was 14 of 32 for yards with two picks against the Buffalo defense in Week Since producing his best NFL game -- yards and two touchdowns against the Titans in Week 12 -- he has turned the ball over six times in five games and posted a passer rating of It's difficult to imagine Jones suddenly turning things around against the league's best pass defense by DVOA. The other advantage the Bills have, as the wonderful Mike Reiss noted on Twitter , is health.

The Patriots have a number of defensive starters who either aren't percent or might be out for Saturday's game, notably breakout rookie tackle Christian Barmore , who left the Week 18 loss to the Dolphins with a knee injury. The Bills are relatively healthy outside of the long-term absence of star corner Tre'Davious White. I'd expect a low-scoring slog and a home win for Buffalo over its hated rival. Prediction: Bills 19, Patriots While the regular-season finale against the Chargers came down to a frantic conclusion, the Raiders got their just deserts when Daniel Carlson hit his winning field goal.

They outplayed the Chargers throughout Sunday's game, only for Justin Herbert to bail out the offense with a series of preposterous plays on fourth downs. The Raiders dominated the line of scrimmage, as the offensive line did an excellent job of protecting Derek Carr , while Maxx Crosby dominated Storm Norton and harassed Herbert throughout the contest. To get to that point, though, the Raiders rode their luck against a series of compromised quarterbacks. After dropping to , they landed consecutive games against backup quarterbacks Nick Mullens Browns and Drew Lock Broncos.

Wentz averaged just 5. The Raiders won those games by a total of just nine points. Of course, you could make the same case that the Bengals might be overrated by their recent performance. Joe Burrow played like an MVP candidate in consecutive wins over the Ravens and Chiefs , throwing for a combined yards and eight touchdowns.

Those games matter, but they're also way out of line with his performances from week to week. The No. Burrow and the Bengals are for real on offense, but expecting them to be the Greatest Show on Turf Rams is probably an exaggeration. The problem for the Raiders is that I'm not sure another dominant game from Crosby would even be enough. When the Raiders played the Bengals earlier this season, the star end posted a The Raiders were able to muster only 13 first downs, even with Darren Waller in the fold.

Unless the knee injury Burrow rested in Week 18 is more significant than publicly reported, I don't think the Raiders have enough to keep their win streak going.

Prediction: Bengals 27, Raiders We're looking at four backups, a guy who was benched, two players who were salary dumped this offseason, a struggling top-three pick and Ryan.

When Tom Brady faced this secondary in Week 6 , he went of with yards in a game the Bucs led before two late Philly scores. That game preceded Philadelphia's midseason awakening to run the ball more with Jalen Hurts at quarterback, a shift it was able to pull off in part because its schedule got much easier.

I don't love the Eagles' matchup against one of the league's best run defenses, especially with Hurts possibly slowed by an ankle injury. New Orleans still won , but it needed to shut out the Bucs to do so.

I don't like Philly's chances of repeating that feat. Prediction: Bucs 34, Eagles The 49ers have the sort of roster capable of giving any team fits, and they are one of the few organizations with the sort of star-laden core that can match the Cowboys. We just saw Jimmy Garoppolo produce one of the best drives of his career in marching the 49ers down the field for the winning score against the Rams , which helped push San Francisco back into the postseason.

As was the case for the No. Kyle Shanahan's team struggles to stay afloat when it turns the ball over; the 49ers have gone when they turn the ball over two or more times this year and otherwise. They're facing a Cowboys defense that has forced two or more takeaways 12 different times this season, a feat last accomplished by the Steelers and the Legion of Boom Seahawks.

With the 49ers bereft at cornerback against a team with multiple star receivers, they will need a heroic effort on the ground to stick with Dallas, and while that's possible, I don't trust an injured Garoppolo to protect the football, especially with star left tackle Trent Williams questionable to play.

Prediction: Cowboys 27, 49ers I'm not sure there are many teams that have seemed less convincing while winning five of six than these Rams. Matthew Stafford has alternated white-hot stretches of passing with halves in which he has made inexplicable decisions with the football. In Los Angeles' season-ending loss to the 49ers , he went of for yards with two touchdowns in the first half, then threw two picks after halftime, including a game-ender to rookie Ambry Thomas.

Facing an inconsistent Seattle offense, the Cardinals looked like they were still working out preseason mistakes. Blown coverages led to long touchdowns for Tyler Lockett and Freddie Swain , while the defense left a gap unfilled on the yard Rashaad Penny touchdown. Arizona has the roster to overcome the occasional lapse or mental mistake, but the margins are tighter against the league's best teams. Perhaps more disconcertingly, the Arizona offense has undergone yet another second-half fade.

During their run to finish the season, the Cardinals ranked 17th in offensive EPA per play, below the Texans and Lions. It's hard to believe the Cardinals are suddenly going to turn things around without him. Prediction: Rams 27, Cardinals The reward for the Bengals would be a trip to Nashville to play the top-seeded Titans, who might be the most difficult team in the league to figure out.

Advanced metrics don't just see them as less impressive than their record; they see them as a pretender. Football Outsiders has data going back through the early s and suggests that the Titans would be both the worst No. Is there something the numbers are missing?

One thing clearly comes to mind: health. The Titans were without A. Brown and Julio Jones for chunks of the season and didn't have star back Derrick Henry in the lineup for the second half of the campaign.

Their big three played just snaps together this season, and they're all expected to be present and accounted for when the Titans take the field in the divisional round.. He was absorbing the largest workload in league history before his foot injury, but his efficiency had cratered in His per-carry stats were significantly down across the board.

Furthermore, replacement D'Onta Foreman has been a similar back to Henry since joining the team:. I'd rather have Henry in the lineup and Foreman available to spell the returning star -- and Henry's presence should help a slumping Tennessee play-action attack -- but given his drop-off before the injury and the sharpness he might have lost while sitting out for two months, I'm not confident he'll be the guy we saw in and upon returning to the lineup.

The last time these two teams played was back in , and it was a vintage rushing performance from Tennessee. Henry and Co. And as teams often do when they rack up plus yards of offense, the Titans In a game in which they ran the ball at will, turned the ball over only once and posted impressive conversion rates on third down and in the red zone, the Titans were blown out by a Bengals team.

The problem then is that the Titans weren't able to get pressure on Joe Burrow , who cooked them for yards and two touchdowns.

During a season in which Burrow was under pressure constantly, the Titans didn't sack him once. They struggled despite the fact that Cincinnati was without running back Joe Mixon and four of its starting offensive linemen. The Bengals went of on third down and 4-of-5 scoring touchdowns in the red zone. It was their best offensive performance of the season. Kansas City can be viewed as the AFC Super Bowl favorite because it has reached that contest in each of the last two seasons.

The Chiefs will be familiar with the Patriots and the Bills, while the Tennessee Titans are aiming to get Derrick Henry back for the divisional round. The running back's return will not automatically place the Titans in the Super Bowl, though, as he hasn't played since October 31 and it may take him some time to get up to full speed.

Mahomes would have the edge even though the Titans tried to close the gap in the passing game by adding Julio Jones to A. Brown at wide receiver. Mahomes and Rodgers both have plenty of postseason experience to bank on, and a strong argument can be made that they headline the best squads in their respective conferences. Gambling problem?

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