Written by Anthony Mendoza Barajas
Edited by Donovan Clark
The playoffs are some of the most exciting weekends of NFL fans lives every single year. Playoffs are where the teams from the regular season did the best face off in action packed games, to see who is actually the best team in the league.
The Wild Card round is the first round of playoffs where all the teams that haven't gotten a first round advance straight to the divisional round. The divisional round is the second round of playoffs where all the teams that won their individual games get to move on to the divisional round.
There were some amazing upsets in the first two rounds of the playoffs and some really close games that came down to the wire. There's three specific games that we want to talk about: Rams vs Vikings, Commanders vs Lions, Bills vs Ravens.
Rams VS Vikings–Wild Card Round
The Vikings went into this game expected to win by a large margin by many people. The Rams came into this game as the underdogs, so there was very little hope for them to win.
Quarter 1: In the first quarter Rams got the ball first and they drove all the way down field and threw a 5 yard touchdown to Kyren Williams. Then they do it again but have to settle for a field goal Making the score 10-0 at the end of the first quarter.
Quarter 2: The Vikings kick a field goal then the Rams defense sacks the quarterback and he fumbles then the Rams pick it up and take it to the end-zone for a touchdown. The rams get another stop and they throw a 13 yard pass into the end-zone making the score 24 - 3 going into the half.
Quarter 3: The Rams drive all the way down and field kick a field goal. Finally the Vikings throw a touchdown pass to TJ Hockensen but fail the 2 point conversion. At the end of the third it is 27-9.
Quarter 4: Nobody scored in the 4th quarter making the final score 27-9 Rams win with the upset. The Rams defense finished with nine total sacks.
Bills VS Ravens--Divisional Round
The Bills vs the Ravens was going to be a good and close game but nobody thought that it would be this close.
Quarter 1: Lamar Jackson throws a 16 yard pass to Rashod Bateman for a touchdown putting the ravens in the lead for 7. The Bills are on the 1 yard line and they have Ray Davis running it in to tie the game. That was the end of the first quarter.
Quarter 2: The Bills on the 1 yard line then Josh Allen runs the ball putting the bills in the lead with 14 to 7 . The ravens are down by 7 and they had Justin tucker kick a 26 yard field goal putting the ravens down by 4. The Bills are on the 4 yard line having Josh Allen run the ball keeping them still in the lead by 11 before halftime. That was the end of the 2 quarter having the score be 21 to 10 bills are in the lead.
Quarter 3: It’s ravens ball the bills get a stop
on them Making the ravens kick a 47 field goal with Justin Tucker making them down by 8. The ravens get the ball back and they are on the 5 yard line having Derrick Henry run the ball putting the ravens down by 2. The bills didn’t score this quarter but they are still in the lead with the score being 19 to 21.
Quarter 4: The Bills have the ball but they get stuck so they have to settle a 51 yard field goal attempt keeping the bills in the lead by 5. The bills get the ball back and they kick another field goal keeping up by 8. The ravens have the ball and Lamar Jackson throws a 24 yard pass to Isaiah Likely putting them down by 2. The ravens go for a 2 pt. Lamar Jackson throws the ball to Mark Andrew and he drops it meaning the Bill win and they are going to the conference championship. The score was 25 to 27.
Lions VS Commanders- Divisional Round
This match was surprising to see in the Divisional Round cause the commanders weren’t supposed to be good this year but they drafted Jayden Daniels a rookie QB.
Quarter 1: To start this game the lions had the ball first then they had Jahmyr run the ball in putting them in the lead by 0 to 7. The commanders have the ball and they get stopped so they had to settle with a 47 yard field goal to put points on the board having the score be 3 to 7. That's all that happened in the 1 Quarter; the score was still 3 to 7 commanders down.
Quarter 2: The commanders had the ball and they had Brian Robinson jr run the ball in putting them in the lead 10 to 7. It’s the lion's ball and Jared Goff throws a touchdown pass to Sam Laporta putting them in the lead 10 to 14.
The commanders have the ball and Jayden Daniels throws a 58 yard touchdown pass to Terry McLaurin putting them in the lead 17 to 14.the loins throw and interception to Quan Martin and he's runs it for a pick 6 having the commanders be in the lead 24 to 14 lions are down by 10. The Lions got the ball back and they had Jameson Williams run the ball for a 61 yard touchdown run putting them down by 3 the score was 24 to 21. The commanders get the ball back Jayden Daniels throws a touchdown pass to Zach Ertz putting them up 31 to 21.
Quarter 3: The Lions were the only ones to score this quarter. Jahmyr Gibbs runs the ball in putting them down by 31 to 28.
Quarter 4: The commanders scored 2 touchdowns putting them up 45 to 28. The Lions kicked a field goal making the score 45 to 31. The commanders win 45 to 31.
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