–The Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers have the two byes this weekend as they await seeing which teams they will play in the divisional round. If all three wild cards lose, they will play he fourth seed. If one or more wild card team wins, they will face a wild card team.
–The news of the week has been the NFL’s decision to put the Kanas City-Miami game on Peacock and the bad weather conditions in Kansas City and Buffalo. ay In Kansas City, Miami has to deal with bad weather because they lost to the Bills lsat week. If they had won, they would have been home. And the game will draw the fewer viewers than any otherplayoff game because it is on Peacock. The NFL is getting $110 million from Peacock but Is facing a backlash from fans who dont wantto sign up for a service for one game.
The weather in Buffalo will be big factor for the game against the Steelers. The weather forecast is so dire that they NFL moved the game from 1 p.m. Sunday to 430 pm Monday in hopes the weather will improve.
That means there will be two games Saturday Sunday and Monday. The weekend starts Saturday with the Cleveland at Houston game Saturday where the weather won’t be a factor at the Houston stadium and then the Chiefs-Dolphins game at night.
Green Bay will be at Dallas in a matchup of the two teams that played in the Ice Bowl following by the Rams at Detroit and a homecoming for Matthew Stafford. And then Monday will be the Bills and Steelers followed by the Eagles at Tampa Bay.
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