2021 NFL Playoffs Conference Championship Early Predictions
AFC: 2 Buffalo Bills at 1 Kansas City Chiefs
Knee-Jerk Instant Analysis: This is where Kansas City steps on the gas. After a bit of an uneven win over Baltimore in the Divisional Round, the Chiefs will rip through the Bills as Patrick Mahomes gets out to a hot start that doesn’t stop. Josh Allen will throw for 400 yards with enough scoring drives to make KC keep trying, but the Chief machine will look and play like the defending Super Bowl champs on the way into a chance to repeat.
Knee-Jerk No Research Prediction: Kansas City 41, Buffalo 30
Early Line Guess (if this matchup happens): Kansas City -8.5
NFC: 2 New Orleans Saints at 1 Green Bay Packers
Knee-Jerk Instant Analysis: The Packers got the Saints 37-30 back in Week 3, and it’ll be another fantastic game, but not in the same way. The 37 points were the most allowed all year by New Orleans, but this time around the secondary will be far stronger, the offense will control the clock enough to matter, and it’ll be a gripping back-and-forth game with a whole slew of missed opportunities.
The Saints will go up late, but Aaron Rodgers will come through with a scoring drive in the final 90 seconds on a fastball to Allen Lazard in the back of the end zone to win it.
Knee-Jerk No Research Prediction: Green Bay 27, New Orleans 23
Early Line Guess (if this matchup happens): Green Bay -3.5
2021 NFL Playoffs Super Bowl Early Prediction
1 Kansas City Chiefs vs. 1 Green Bay Packers
Knee-Jerk Instant Analysis: It’s going to be the game that makes the NFL revisit its changed up playoff format. The two 1 seeds will get here not just because they’re fantastic, and not just because they had a home field advantage throughout, but because they’ll each get a 2 seed that would normally have one fewer game and will feel it in the conference championship.
And then that will all get blown off as Patrick Mahomes and Aaron Rodgers keep trading huge shots and game of wild momentum swings and big plays. However, midway though the second half, Green Bay will turn to the power.
The Packers will run well, and KC won’t. The combination of Aaron Jones and Jamaal Williams will start grinding the clock and keep Mahomes on the sidelines, and that will be just enough as the Packers hold on with a huge late stops, and then run well enough to get the win and Rodgers his second Super Bowl.
Knee-Jerk No Research Prediction: Green Bay 34, Kansas City 31
Early Line Guess (if this matchup happens): Kansas City -3
NFL Playoff First Thought Predictions
– Wild Card: Saturday
– Wild Card: Sunday
– Divisional Round: NFC
– Divisional Round: AFC
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