Chicago Bears Caleb Williams MUST ICE the Los Angeles Rams & Defense is the Key in the AFC Playoffs

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🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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The Chicago Bears are coming off a tremendous comeback over the Green Bay Packers, but now they take on the favorite in the NFC in the Los Angeles Rams. The Bears made great adjustments in the second half, but need to come out with a better initial plan when the Rams come to the Windy City. For the Rams, they know the Bears can make a comeback and if they let go of the rope like they did against the Carolina Panthers, they will lose. The San Francisco 49ers will need to rely on their defense to take down the Seattle Seahawks, but the issue is the 49ers run defense can't be relied on and the Hawks will throw the ball better than the Philadelphia Eagles. In the AFC, it is all about defense as the Houston Texans and New England Patriots are coming off dominant performances from the wild card round. However, the offensive advantage clearly goes the the Patriots after C.J. Stroud had a meltdown in Pittsburgh. The Buffalo Bills passing defense has been excellent this year and the Denver Broncos can't run the ball consistently. That leans toward Buffalo taking the next step. In other NFL news, the Eagles and the Los Angeles Chargers made big changes to their offensive coordinator role and now they hope this will allow them to get to the next step in 2026.

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0:00.0	Caleb Williams played fantastic against the Green Bay Packers, but he's going to have to repeat that performance if they're going to take down the favorite in the NFC. That and more on today's edition of Locked on NFL.
0:12.0	The new Locked on NFL. The madman Tyler Roland is your double shot of NFL espresso with the locked on local experts on every major story.
0:21.6	Get ready, Roland is revving up.
0:24.6	The new Locked on NFL starts now.
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0:32.6	Football fans, welcome in to the Locked on NFL podcast,
0:36.6	bringing you a double dose of the NFL's biggest stories with help from our local experts that know your favorite teams like no one else
0:43.8	I am your host the madman Tyler Roland joined today by locked on NFL expert the data queen Michelle Majuk on today's episode
0:51.5	we are going to talk about some big coordinator changes in the NFL in Philadelphia and in Los Angeles,
0:57.2	but we got to talk about these matchups in the divisional round weekend. We're going to talk about
1:02.3	the battles on defense in the AFC, but we got to talk about Caleb Williams against the Rams in the
1:08.8	NFC to start before we dive in. I do want to thank you making the Locked-on NFL your first listen and thank you for making
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1:35.7	Michelle, the idea of today's show is to rank the playoff games that we are most excited to watch.
1:42.6	And one thing that we both agree on here is
1:45.3	the best games are in the NFC.
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