{"id":24827,"date":"2025-01-09T14:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T14:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/nfl-play-offs-wildcard-weekend-predictions-phoebe-schecter-on-detroit-lions-super-bowl-hopes\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T14:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T14:24:11","slug":"nfl-play-offs-wildcard-weekend-predictions-phoebe-schecter-on-detroit-lions-super-bowl-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/nfl-play-offs-wildcard-weekend-predictions-phoebe-schecter-on-detroit-lions-super-bowl-hopes\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL play-offs: Wildcard Weekend predictions &#038; Phoebe Schecter on Detroit Lions&#8217; Super Bowl hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">I think the Chargers will take this. They&#8217;re on fire and the Texans are on a downward slope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">(Head coach) Jim Harbaugh and (defensive coordinator) Jesse Minter have done a great job in their first year with the Chargers and completely changed the team&#8217;s culture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This will always be a physical game but although (receiver) George Pickens is back for the Steelers, it&#8217;s just not firing for them as it was earlier in the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Baltimore quarterback Lamar Jackson has taken this new approach &#8211; pretty much since losing to the Steelers in November &#8211; where he&#8217;s taken control of the offence and run the ball more, so I see the Ravens coming out on top.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">I&#8217;m really excited for this match-up, I think it&#8217;ll be electric. Who doesn&#8217;t want to see Bo Nix and Josh Allen?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Denver defence led the NFL for most sacks (63) and (cornerback) Patrick Surtain is the potential Defensive Player of the Year, but Buffalo&#8217;s not an easy place to go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Bills have been playing &#8216;Mr Brightside&#8217; at every home game and I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ve seen any of the videos but the whole crowd, the players, everybody is singing. It&#8217;s such a great atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When Chiefs fans were flying in for their game in November, the Bills song &#8216;Shout&#8217; was being played at the airport. I&#8217;m sure they will have something planned for the Broncos and, for me, it&#8217;s a Bills win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Love said he can play but Watson&#8217;s out, and the Packers are going against an Eagles team that has been quietly chugging along, with rushing leader Saquon Barkley having rested last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts hopes to clear concussion protocol after missing two games, but either way, I think the Eagles have this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">I&#8217;m excited for this match-up because you can get any version of Baker Mayfield and the Bucs, and there will be a fun match-up between (Commanders cornerback) Marshon Lattimore and (Bucs receiver) Mike Evans as they have a rivalry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Jayden Daniels has had a phenomenal rookie season as Commanders quarterback and I don&#8217;t know if the Bucs&#8217; defence can stop him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Rams rested a bunch of their guys last week while the Vikings are coming off one of the most emotionally draining performances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People say the NFL&#8217;s a copycat league so the Rams will look at what the Lions did to the Vikings &#8211; with back-ups in &#8211; and say &#8216;we can do the same&#8217;, so I&#8217;m going with the Rams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Phoebe Schecter was speaking to BBC Sport&#8217;s Ben Collins<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/american-football\/articles\/c5ywye594d0o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think the Chargers will take this. They&#8217;re on fire and the Texans are on a downward slope. (Head coach) Jim Harbaugh and (defensive coordinator) Jesse Minter have done a great job in their first year with the Chargers and completely changed the team&#8217;s culture. This will always be a physical game but although (receiver) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24829,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24827\/revisions\/24829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}