{"id":704386,"date":"2026-01-25T17:24:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T17:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/704386\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T17:24:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T17:24:36","slug":"bsj-live-coverage-afc-championship-patriots-16-3-at-denver-broncos-15-3-3-p-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/704386\/","title":{"rendered":"BSJ Live Coverage: AFC Championship – Patriots (16-3) at Denver Broncos (15-3), 3 p.m."},"content":{"rendered":"

AFC Championship – Patriots (16-3) at Denver Broncos (15-3), 3 p.m.
Location: Empower Field at Mile High, Denver.
TV: CBS-4. Jim Nantz (play-by-play), Tony Romo (color analyst), Tracy Wolfson and Evan Washburn (sidelines).
Radio: 98.5-FM The SportsHub in Boston (Bob Socci and Scott Zolak).\u00a0**Bedard will be on the postgame show approximately one hour after the game.**
Online: Live Box<\/a> | Patriots media notes<\/a> | Broncos media notes<\/a> |\u00a0Flipcard<\/a>
Latest Line: Patriots -3.5, 43.5 o\/u<\/p>\n

Cold and gusty at times. Possible light snow.<\/p>\n

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Patriots have even more perfect health this week, as Mack Hollins comes off IR.<\/p>\n

Broncos activated C Luke Wattenberg off IR.<\/p>\n

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WR Mack Hollins has been activated to the 53-man roster from injured reserve.<\/p>\n

Placed DT Eric Gregory on injured reserve and elevated RB D\u2019Ernest Johnson and DE Leonard Taylor III to the active roster from the practice squad for the second straight week.<\/p>\n

WR Trent Sherfield Sr. was released from the practice squad.<\/p>\n

Activated center Luke Wattenberg from injured reserve and placed quarterback Bo Nix on injured reserve.<\/p>\n

Elevated wide receivers Michael Bandy and Elijah Moore.<\/p>\n

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BEDARD’S KEYS TO THE GAME AND GAME PICK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFC Championship – Patriots (16-3) at Denver Broncos (15-3), 3 p.m.Location: Empower Field at Mile High, Denver.TV: CBS-4.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[88077,232,231,258,2426,7,263,249,6,208],"class_list":["post-704386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denver-broncos","tag-bedard-columns","tag-broncos","tag-denver","tag-denver-broncos","tag-denverbroncos","tag-football","tag-live-coverage","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-patriots"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115956906287383660","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704386","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=704386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}