Wild Card Saturday Recap: Caleb Williams and Matthew Stafford Deliver Two Classics
NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal
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🗓️ 11 January 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
What a start to the NFL postseason. In the early window, the Los Angeles Rams held off the Carolina Panthers in a game that was wayyyyy too close for comfort for Sean McVay and LA. In the end, it was Matthew Stafford's late heroics that bailed the Rams out of an embarrassing loss to Bryce Young and the scrappy Panthers -- further cementing the QB's MVP narrative. In Chicago, the Bears hosted the Green Bay Packers and staged one of the most epic comebacks in NFL playoff history. Caleb Williams was faced with a 15-point deficit in the fourth quarter, but the Bears still had some magic left in the tank, as Chicago triumphed over Jordan Love and Green Bay in the Wild Card Round. Gregg Rosenthal and ESPN's Bill Barnwell provide recap and analysis of the day's action, with every stat, narrative and major highlight along the way.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. Ball in the 28th. Snap to. Drop the snap. Picks it up. Keep them in the pocket. Love circles back. Now rolling right. Moving up. Way in the heed. Still moving up. Now he throws to the end zone. And it's dropped dropped the interception drop and it doesn't matter. |
| 0:21.6 | Game is over. Game is over. The Bears have come from all the way behind and they beat the green by Packers. |
| 0:28.6 | 31 27. All the ghosts of 15 seasons has been released into this cold January night. |
| 0:39.5 | What a fourth quarter. |
| 0:42.1 | What a night. |
| 0:43.8 | What a trilogy! |
| 0:45.6 | The Bears and Packers just put together. |
| 0:50.3 | 21 to 6th, entering the fourth quarter. |
| 0:54.0 | But if you've watched this Bears team all season long, |
| 0:56.8 | maybe we shouldn't be surprised that the Bears are going to the divisional round. |
| 1:01.9 | 31 to 27, Bill Barnwell from ESPN with me after an incredible Saturday of wild football. |
| 1:13.6 | This is a game, Bill, that is gonna be talked about, |
| 1:16.6 | not just all off-season, but for years to come, |
| 1:21.6 | it could change the shape of the entire Packers organization. |
| 1:25.6 | We'll find out about that. |
| 1:28.6 | But what strikes you the most after watching |
| 1:32.7 | one of the most improbable playoff comebacks |
| 1:35.0 | that I've ever seen? |
| 1:36.4 | So much to talk about from that game. |
| 1:40.7 | And I want to be genuine. |
| 1:42.0 | I thought of like three-bit responses. |
| 1:43.7 | And I'm not going to do |
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