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After an extraordinary 2020 NFL season, we’re at closing down to the final two groups in each conference that will wrestle it out for his or her respective titles—and the probability to reach to Mammoth Bowl L. a. Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, FL.
(Sure, that is barely; the Tom Brady–led Tampa Bay Buccaneers may perchance presumably presumably change into the main personnel in NFL historical previous to play a Mammoth Bowl on their home self-discipline. Some guys fair personal the total success, gather now not they?)
The Green Bay Packers and Los Angeles Rams, kicking off divisional spherical action on Saturday, saved issues relatively terminate, sooner than the Packers scored a tiring touchdown to obtain 32-18 and reach to the NFC Championship Recreation. The Buffalo Bills, meanwhile, blew out the Baltimore Ravens 17-3 to originate a local within the AFC Championship Recreation for the main time since 1994.
Cleveland got here so terminate to toppling the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs when Patrick Mahomes left the sport with a concussion, nevertheless the Chiefs ended the Browns’ season 22-17. And to wrap up the divisional spherical, we may perchance presumably presumably fair personal seen Drew Brees play his closing sport within the NFL when his New Orleans Saints lost to the Buccaneers 30-20.
The outcomes put of living up an NFC title sport that sees the No. 1 Packers host the No. 5 Bucs at Lambeau self-discipline on Sunday, Jan. 24, at 3: 05 p.m. ET, whereas the No. 1 Chiefs host the No. 2 Bills later that evening at 6: 40.
Let’s comprise a glimpse at what the oddsmakers personal to tell about each of those four groups’ possibilities of suiting up in Mammoth Bowl LV on Sunday, Feb. 7.
All odds courtesy of DraftKings.
Mammoth Bowl LV Odds
Kansas Metropolis Chiefs 2/1
Green Bay Packers 11/5
Buffalo Bills 13/4
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 9/2
NFC Championship Odds and Predictions
Date: Sunday, Jan. 24
Time: 3: 05 p.m. ET
Plan: Lambeau Self-discipline, Green Bay, WI
TV: Fox
Odds: Packers -3.5 (over/below 51)
The 2 grizzled outmoded quarterbacks—one a dinky more grizzled than the diversified—match up within the NFC title sport. Tom Brady has 14 conference championship appearances below his belt, whereas Rodgers has five.
Nonetheless wins, in truth, are now not a quarterback stat, and Brady is on a weird personnel, so the matchup between these two Corridor of Reputation-sure quarterbacks is dependent much less on previous historical previous and more on how they’re taking part on this season and the weapons spherical them.
For occasion, one wanted variable this time spherical is that it be Rodgers’ first NFC Championship Recreation ever at Lambeau Self-discipline. The Packers went 7-1 at home and 6-2 on the motorway this season; the Bucs went 5-3 at home and 6-2 on the motorway.
Of direction, the Bucs’ 38-10 blowout of the Packers in Week 6 this season will dangle heavy within the air, nevertheless if the two needed to fulfill again this season, with out a doubt the Packers obtain hosting 43-365 days-outdated Brady at frigid and electric Lambeau, now allowing little followers, than heading support to Tampa.
Brady and Rodgers had 88 touchdown passes and 12 interceptions between them in 2020, and each groups provide though-provoking weapons from wideouts Davante Adams and Mike Evans to working backs Aaron Jones and Leonard Fournette. Buckle in for what’s at probability of be the most compelling NFC Championship Recreation in most modern memory.
Prediction: Packers 34, Bucs 30
AFC Championship Odds and Predictions
Date: Sunday, Jan. 24
Time: 6: 40 p.m. ET
Plan: Arrowhead Stadium, Kansas Metropolis, MO
TV: CBS
Odds: Chiefs -3 (over/below 54)
While the veterans duke it out within the NFC, the NFL’s younger guns glimpse to sq. up over within the AFC, with the Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes, 25, going through off against the Bills’ Josh Allen, 24.
Nonetheless that, in truth, is the burning query a dinky bit lower than a week out from kickoff; will Mahomes be ready to comprise the self-discipline for Kansas Metropolis after leaving the divisional spherical sport against the Browns with a concussion?
On the Fox postgame expose, Jay Glazer supplied some optimism, asserting that Mahomes’ symptoms had been much less much like a concussion and more so to getting “choked out,” though he popular the quarterback will calm personal to sure the concussion protocol.
The Chiefs would with out a doubt be in grief with out Mahomes, because the Bills personal been firing on all cylinders. Allen was red-hot to total the season, fair as he started it. Allen had 11 touchdowns in his final four video games and 12 touchdowns (to only one interception) in his first four.
Buffalo already fell to the Chiefs earlier this season, a 26-17 loss in Week 6 (curiously, also the the same week the two groups within the NFC Championship Recreation previously met this season). And in a ability blueprint for a contrivance the Chiefs may perchance presumably presumably operate if Mahomes had been to be ruled out, that sport was gained by the heroics of Clyde Edwards-Helaire, with 161 total speeding yards. The Bills simply may perchance presumably presumably now not comprise him. Edwards-Helaire did now not play against the Browns, nevertheless ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported he must be support for championship weekend.
The over/below for this sport suggests more of a shootout than within the NFC counterpart, nevertheless quiz it to be lower-scoring overall.
Prediction: Chiefs 24, Bills 21
