By Joe Smith, Touchdown Wire

This weekend, four teams will walk into the Conference Championship Round of the NFL Playoffs. At the end, two teams will remain and advance to square off in Super Bowl LX.

In the AFC, the No. 1-seed Denver Broncos and the No. 2-seed New England Patriots will face off, while in the NFC, the No. 1-seed Seattle Seahawks and the No. 5-seed Los Angeles Rams will battle in a rubber match after splitting their first two games this season. Let’s take a look at the upcoming games,

New England Patriots @ Denver Broncos

A decade ago, the Broncos and the Patriots squared off in the playoffs with Peyton Manning on one side and Tom Brady on the other. Both are retired now, and a lot has changed, but the two teams will now clash once more with a Super Bowl on the line.

This time, the Broncos were led to this point by starting quarterback Bo Nix, who won’t be around on Sunday for the big game after suffering an ankle fracture on the penultimate play of their Divisional Round game against the Bills. Instead, Jarrett Stidham – who is 1-3 as an NFL starter with eight touchdowns and eight interceptions over the course of his career – will start for Denver instead.

The Broncos do bring a deadly defense, however, which finished second in total defense and third in scoring defense in the NFL this season. They also lead the league in team sacks this season. They’ll go up against one of the most dangerous quarterbacks in the league in Drake Maye, who is a NFL MVP finalist after passing for 4,394 yards and 31 touchdowns during the regular season and 447 yards and four touchdowns in the postseason.

Maye and the Patriots have been just as dangerous on the offensive end as the Broncos have been on defense, and New England had the third-best total offense and second-best scoring offense in the NFL this season. This weekend, whichever of those two elite units wins the battle against the other could determine the winner.

Los Angeles Rams @ Seattle Seahawks

The Rams defeated the Seahawks in a narrow 21-19 victory in Week 11 this season, and Seattle returned the favor in Week 16 with a 38-37 overtime win against their Divisional rival on a walk-off two-point conversion. Now, the two teams will meet one final time for NFC West supremacy and a Super Bowl bid.

The Rams will try to ride their explosive offense to victory. With NFL MVP finalist Matthew Stafford at the helm, the Rams have both the top-ranked total offense and the top-ranked scoring offense in the NFL. Stafford played a large part in that, passing for 4,707 yards and 46 touchdowns in the regular season, and 562 yards and three touchdowns in the postseason.

But the Seahawks are more equipped than anyone to stop the 49ers, as they enter with the sixth-best defense in the NFL this season, and the top scoring defense. And if they do manage to slow down Los Angeles, which they haven’t exactly managed in their first two games against the Rams this season, they have the offensive ability to pull away. The Seahawks also have a ton of offensive firepower, entering the season ranked third in the NFL.

This article originally appeared on Touchdown Wire: NFL playoffs: AFC, NFC Championship game previews