{"id":670242,"date":"2026-01-12T01:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/670242\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T01:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:56:17","slug":"new-england-patriots-vs-los-angeles-chargers-wild-card-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/670242\/","title":{"rendered":"New England Patriots vs. Los Angeles Chargers Wild Card open thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The Los Angeles Chargers are in Foxborough, MA this evening for a postseason date with the New England Patriots to close out a wild Sunday of playoff football. Buffalo Bills fans are decidedly rooting for the Chargers tonight, given their opponent and what Los Angeles winning means. If the Chargers do win, it keeps alive the hope for a bonus game at The Ralph \u2014 one more home playoff game should the Bills manage to face the Chargers for the AFC Championship game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Even without the potential for one more goodbye to the original Highmark Stadium, you can bet that all of Bills Mafia is team Chargers tonight. There are enough football fans who want to see New England truly earn their place, and perhaps endure a bit more suffering after those two decades at the top with Tom Brady.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Regardless of who wins, this is a matchup that holds a lot of interest for the Bills. If the Patriots win, then Buffalo would be headed due west to face the Denver Broncos. Should the Chargers win, then the Bills will face the winner of Monday\u2019s playoff game between the Houston Texans and Pittsburgh Steelers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Here\u2019s your open thread for Patriots-Chargers. As always, be kind to one another \u2014 and in all things\u2026 Go Bills!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Chargers are in Foxborough, MA this evening for a postseason date with the New England&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[423,53,258,7,1014,262,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208,57,3025,1369],"class_list":{"0":"post-670242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-afc-championship-game","9":"tag-buffalo-bills","10":"tag-denver-broncos","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","14":"tag-new-england","15":"tag-new-england-patriots","16":"tag-newengland","17":"tag-newenglandpatriots","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-patriots","20":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","21":"tag-the-bills","22":"tag-tom-brady"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115879646929431638","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}