The NFL playoffs are now in the books.

After a dramatic day of games over the weekend, we now know the New England Patriots

will face off against the Seattle Seahawks for Super Bowl 60.

What kind of drama can we expect to see on the field?

Hello and welcome to USA Today's The Exote.

I'm Dana Taylor.

Today is Thursday, January 29, 26.

Here to help us dig into all things NFL is USA Today senior NFL columnist Jared Bell.

Jared, thank you so much for coming on the show.

Hi, Dana. How are you?

I'm great. It's good to see you.

So we had two very dramatic playoff games over the weekend, and now we've got the Pat versus the Seahawks. Let's talk about each team's strengths and weaknesses.

Tell me about the Patriots, Jared.

Well, the Patriots are a young team that has just kind of come out of nowhere into a Super Bowl team

under the direction of Mike Vrable.

Now, here's something that is just so interesting.

Mike Vrable is a former NFL player who played with the New England Patriots and was a

teammate of Tom Brady's and was a key player in the previous Patriots Super Bowl reign.

And now in his first year as head coach of the Patriots, he's going to the Super Bowl.

So it's really a full circle moment for Vrabel in that sense in terms of him really

establishing himself in recent years as a really, really good NFL coach. He was head coach of the Tennessee

Titans, and now he goes back to New England, and in just one year, he takes them to a Super Bowl.

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