Hello and welcome to the weekend edition of Inside the Huddle.

I'm your host, Neil Reynolds.

Joining me to look ahead to the championship games in the NFL is Mike Carlson of the BBC.

Mike, I love this time of year.

We should be really excited about these games coming up.

First, last week's games, wow.

Yeah, I mean, it's often the best weekend of the year because you get four big games coming up. First, last week's games, wow. Yeah, I mean,

it's often the best weekend of the year because you get four big games and they usually

deliver. I mean, a lot of people I think might have been bored by the Houston,

Baltimore game, but I thought it was actually a really good football game. Yeah. Because

considering you had a rookie quarterback and Joe Flacco going against each other.

You mentioned last weekend, and it is because there's four such good games, but this weekend

is one of my favorites as well, because obviously you've got four good teams left, and you know

the stakes are so high. I mean, to get within 60 minutes of a Super Bowl, if you don't make it,

that's a long offseason to think about what might have been. So this is a great weekend coming up as well. Yeah, nobody remembers if you don't make it, except your fans and

accept your owner. So we've got four teams left in the AFC. It's the Baltimore Ravens, the number

two seed at the New England Patriots. They're the top seed in that conference. And in the NFC. It's the New York Giants, the number four seed at the San Francisco 49 is the number

two seed.

Quick question, Mike, before we dig deeper.

We've got two teams who played on Saturday who were hosting teams who played on Sunday.

At this stage of the season, does it matter?

Not hugely, but I mean, obviously the extra day to prepare and the extra day,

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