NFL Wild Card Round Recap

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🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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The NFL playoffs are underway, and aside from tonight’s Monday Night Football clash between the Los Angeles Rams and Minnesota Vikings, we know who is moving on. But before next week’s divisional round matchups suck up all of the air in the room, ESPN sports analytics writer Seth Walder and Ben Solak breakdown how the winners punched their tickets to the next round. Before previewing tonight’s super wild card finale. And don’t forget the playlist, featuring our favorite stories of 2024 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Seth Walter, I don't know if you heard from Tom Brady, but it is playoff football,
0:08.0	it's postseason football, and it led us now a game within the game as our resident analytics nerd.
0:14.2	Postseason dots look any different than the regular season dots?
0:16.7	You can see the additional effort, the additional want to on the dots.
0:19.7	Yeah, a little more juice in those dots.
0:21.6	You can just tell.
0:22.9	Different vibe.
0:23.6	Yep.
0:24.1	We had five of our six postseason games at the time of this recording.
0:28.5	Most of them multi-score victories.
0:30.3	One last one there between the bucks and the commanders.
0:32.6	A close one.
0:33.8	Any key major postseason takeaways from youusufon the wildcard round?
0:38.1	I got an email about the running game being back from a running game fan.
0:41.7	I decided to respond to that one.
0:42.6	Anything for you?
0:43.4	My big takeaway is just that the five teams that I would consider to be the Super Bowl favorites still remain the five Super Bowl favorites.
0:50.9	Talking lions, chiefs, ravens, bills, Eagles.
0:54.4	Those are the five contenders. You're counting the two teams Ravens, Bills, Eagles. Those are the five
0:55.0	contenders.
0:55.4	You're counting the two teams
0:56.6	of the buy?
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