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The PFF NFL Podcast

2026 AFC & NFC Conference Championship Preview

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4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

PFF's Trevor Sikkema and Dalton Wasserman preview the AFC & NFC Conference Championships. 03:20 - Trench Talk with Terron Armstead 08:45 - Patriots vs. Broncos 26:20 - Rams vs. Seahawks

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the PFF NFL show.

0:21.6

Trevor Second with Dalton Washman here with you guys once again for championship weekend.

0:27.4

Dalton, let's go, baby.

0:28.6

We only got two games we're talking about here on this preview show, but we're going to go as

0:33.4

in-depthly as possible to see which one of these four teams are going to be competing for a Super Bowl trophy a couple weeks from now in San Francisco. How you doing, my friend? I'm ready, Trave. I'm ready for a couple of really good games. It's a lot of intriguing storylines in both, and especially that NFC title game. You get round three between the Rams and the Seahawks. It feels like we're always destined to get there. And then we'll see if the Broncos can muster it up without Pohenicks against the Hot Patriots team playing their first road playoff game this season. I think we're going to have a lot of fun with these two games. I'm not going to mention the season standings that we have here for picking these games because, well, you're out of reach. Congratulations, my friend. You bested me in picking games this year.

1:12.1

I cannot possibly catch you even if you pick none of the games right from here on out.

1:16.6

So it's been fun, though. This has been fun to go back and forth if you have a little bit of competition.

1:21.0

But congrats, I'm not going to say it again because I'm already thinking about how to get you next year.

1:27.0

Feels good. It feels good especially makes up for the fact that on the college side that Max beat me with the game picks this year, I think I saw somewhere, I don't know if it was close to that same spread, but that we have here, I got just to throw the numbers at you. I got eight games up on you with three to go, so feeling obviously good about that. But next year, I'm trying to win both shows,

1:44.4

man. I'm trying to get the NFL and the college going. You didn't have to tell the people that

1:48.1

it was an eight-game lead. He didn't have to do that. I was trying to be nice. I was trying to congratulate. You didn't have to do that to me. You could still cut into it to make it look a little But listen, eight games off of what, almost 300, out of almost 300, it's not that big spread, Trevor, you know, it's kind of, and you still have ground you could make up if you want to differ on some of these picks. This is true. We'll see. We'll see if I can, yeah, maybe I'll just be different than you on all the games remaining to see how close that we can get it. So, okay, the games that we have this weekend, obviously it's Patriots

2:18.6

and the Denver Broncos. And then we have, like you said, round three between the Los Angeles

2:23.6

Rams and the Seattle Seahawks. We're going to start with that AFC championship game. And with that,

2:28.6

we're actually going to start with our segment that we have with Theron Armstead, talking about

2:32.2

the trench matchup specifically because there's no Boe Nix in this game.

2:36.3

So what is this Denver offensive line specifically going to do to help make sure that he is kept as upright as possible?

2:44.5

And of course, Tehran played for Sean Payton himself.

2:48.1

So let's hear what Tehran had to say about this matchup before we dig into ourselves.

2:51.9

All right, we got our guy, Taran, Armstead, back here with us to discuss another trench matchup that we have here in the postseason. Terran, this one means a lot because with the Broncos, no longer having Bow Nix, that means that Jared Stidham is going to step up in his place. So we've got to talk about one of the better past blocking

3:08.5

units in the NFL. Some would say the best in Denver with the Broncos going up against the New

3:13.9

England Patriots. So let's just start with the interior pressure because I think that's what

3:18.4

really matters the most. New England, they're best when they've got Christian Barmore,

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