{"id":704119,"date":"2026-01-25T14:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T14:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/704119\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T14:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T14:54:16","slug":"nfl-playoff-picks-and-predictions-for-afc-nfc-championship-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/704119\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL playoff picks and predictions for AFC, NFC Championship Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

The final two games before the Super Bowl are here. The New England Patriots take on the No. 1 seed Denver Broncos<\/a>, but they are favored because the Broncos will have backup quarterback Jarrett Stidham starting. Bo Nix fractured his ankle in the Broncos’ win over the Buffalo Bills<\/a> in the divisional round and is out for the remainder of the playoffs.<\/p>\n

The NFC Championship Game is between the Los Angeles Rams<\/a> and Seattle Seahawks<\/a>, the third time they face each other this season.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

AFC, NFC Championship games predictions<\/p>\n

It is time to make predictions. Who will make it to the Super Bowl?<\/p>\n

I have been saying all postseason that the Rams will make it to the Super Bowl, so I won’t waver from that.<\/p>\n

My predictions:<\/p>\n

It will be a Rams-Patriots Super Bowl rematch.<\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared on Cards Wire: NFL playoff picks and predictions for AFC, NFC Championship Games<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The final two games before the Super Bowl are here. The New England Patriots take on the No.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[925,53,258,7,3872,58,249,871,6,261,12357],"class_list":{"0":"post-704119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-bo-nix","9":"tag-buffalo-bills","10":"tag-denver-broncos","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-jarrett-stidham","13":"tag-los-angeles-rams","14":"tag-new-england-patriots","15":"tag-nfc-championship-game","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-seattle-seahawks","18":"tag-the-super-bowl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115956316054859075","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704119","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=704119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}