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The PFF NFL Podcast

2026 Divisional Round Preview

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4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

PFF's Dalton Wasserman and Trevor Sikkema preview every Divisional Round game. 01:35 - Bills vs. Broncos 15:15 - 49ers vs. Seahawks 30:40 - Texans vs. Patriots 43:00 - Trench Talk with Terron Armstead 51:35 - Bears vs. Rams

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0:00.0

What's going on, everybody?

0:21.4

Welcome back to the PFF NFL show.

0:23.6

Postseason edition, of course.

0:25.0

Now we're on to the divisional round.

0:26.9

We've got four games to preview here with you guys.

0:29.9

We're going to go through the matchups on not just both sides of the ball,

0:32.7

but as we have been through the playoffs,

0:34.7

dividing these into run and pass games.

0:37.0

So we're going to be a lot of a full preview of what we think these matchups are going to be when the other team faces the other team on the run versus the pass. We're going to talk about some of the things that we saw in the regular season. But of course, a lot of what we saw last week weighs heavily into this as well. Dalton, how you doing, my friend? Fantastic. Really excited for four awesome matchups we have. I think you really have a case here where I know there's a couple of games that, you know, you feel like, okay, we feel pretty good about this team winning, at least on the betting lines. But I really think all four of them, you could argue their coin flips, man. You've got division rivalries. You've got great quarterbacks. you've got emerging young teams, right? So I think we've got a lot of fun matchups this weekend.

1:11.6

We started out hot with the play. man. You've got division rivalries. You've got great quarterbacks. You've got emerging young teams, right?

1:15.2

So I think we've got a lot of fun matchups this weekend. We started out hot with the playoffs.

1:15.2

they were awesome at the beginning of last week and I kind of you know petered out a little bit towards the end of the week but I think it you are right we do have four really great matchups first one we're going to start with is the Buffalo Bills traveling to Denver to take on the Denver Broncos. Broncos obviously did not play last week in the wild card matchup because they were the one C. They were resting up and now they get the Buffalo Bill. So how do you want to start this one, Dalton? You want to start talking about the Bills run game, the Bill's Pass game side of things you want to start out for this? Let's start with the star of the show, obviously, and that's Josh Allen for the Buffalo Bills, right? And some of the difficulties he's going to face in the passing game this week against this Denver Broncos defense. Now, first and foremost, right now the Bills only have three healthy wide receivers, right? When you talk about Khalil Shakir,

2:19.7

Keon Coleman, and Brennan Cooks. That's all they have left after Terrell Shavers, Tours ACL and incredibly played most of that game with against Jacksonville with a torn ACL, and then it was announced afterwards that he's going to be done for the season. So only three healthy wide receivers, the bills are, you know, very often in multiple tight-end sets anyway. but I think the biggest problem that they're going to have,

2:18.1

and I would have said this if they had a healthy

2:21.0

wide receiving core, is the Broncos and their man-to-man coverage, right? This outstanding

2:25.7

secondary, Patrick Sertan, Jaquan McMillan in the slot, Riley Moss, and then their great safety pair,

2:31.7

Brandon Jones and Talanoa, Hufanga, just one of the best

2:34.5

man coverage teams in the league. They use it at the second highest rate in the NFL behind

2:39.0

the Cleveland Browns. They have the top man coverage grade in the league. They allow the

2:42.7

six fewest yards per coverage snap and just the third lowest open target percentage in the

2:49.8

league when they are in man coverage. They're obviously

2:52.2

very good. It all starts with the last year's defensive player of the year. They're Pat Sertan.

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