Patrick Mahomes. Getty Images Korea
There are no familiar teams or names in the National Football League (NFL) playoffs this season. It is the Kansas City Chiefs, and Patrick Mahomes, who is considered the core of Kansas City and the best current quarterback.
This season’s NFL playoffs will begin with the National Football Conference (NFC) wild card round between the LA Rams and the Carolina Panthers to be held at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA on the 11th.
Starting with this game, the NFC and American Football Conference (AFC) district champions and wild card teams will enter a one-off match to advance to the 60th Super Bowl, which will be held on February 9 at Levi’s Stadium, the home stadium of the San Francisco 49ers in Santa Clara, California.
While the Rams and Seattle Seahawks are considered strong contenders for the title, Kansas City, which has made the playoffs every single time for the past 10 years, was not named.
Kansas City, which attempted to win three consecutive Super Bowls for the first time last year but failed, finished third in the AFC West Division with a poor record of 6 wins and 11 losses this season and failed to advance to the playoffs. It was a huge blow that Mahomes, the best quarterback in the game, had to leave the team during the season due to a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament and was on the operating table.
Patrick Mahomes suffered from a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament in the game against the LA Chargers last December. Getty Images Korea
While Seattle and the Denver Broncos, who ranked first in the two major conferences in the regular season, advanced straight to the divisional round with a bye, the most eye-catching one in the six wild card rounds is the Philadelphia Eagles, who won the Super Bowl by defeating Kansas City last year.
Philadelphia hosts San Francisco in the wild card round. Many predict that the away team will have the upper hand in this season’s wild card round, but it is expected that Philadelphia will have a particularly high chance of winning this game.
The famous quarterbacks representing the AFC, including Mahomes, Joe Burrows (Cincinnati Bengals), and Lamar Jackson (Baltimore Ravens), all suffered from serious injuries and underwent surgery, and none of their teams advanced to the playoffs. In the current situation, Buffalo Bills’ franchise star Josh Allen is attempting to win his first Super Bowl.
Allen, who is the strongest dual threat quarterback in the game and was named Most Valuable Player (MVP) in the regular season last season, led Buffalo all the way to the AFC Championship round in the playoffs, but bowed his head in a close loss to Mahomes’ Kansas City. As all of his rivals failed to advance to the playoffs this season, more attention is being paid to Allen.
Josh Allen. Getty Images Korea
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