Broncos-Bills playoff history, revisited
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Pittsburgh's last playoff win came against the Kansas City Chiefs in the 2016 playoffs. Since then, Pittsburgh has lost its last seven postseason games. Coach Mike Tomlin's seven-game postseason losing streak ties former Bengals coach Marvin Lewis for the longest playoff losing streak by an NFL coach.
The NFL Playoffs are in full swing following a nail-biting start to Wild Card Weekend, with just one game remaining before the Divisional Round of the postseason is officially set. Every game came down to the wire,
The NFL is seeing a significant rise in viewership, with the recent wild-card games averaging 32 million viewers
The NFL previously applied the term "super" to the wild-card round of the playoffs. This year, the ratings were. Via Sports Business Journal, the six games televised by Fox (which had two), CBS, Prime Video, NBC and ABC/ESPN/ESPN2 attracted an average of 31.9 million viewers.
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Josh Allen has too often been asked to carry the Buffalo Bills to victory. In their wild-card win at Jacksonville, the quarterback's teammates returned the favor by carrying him physically and literally.
Prime Video’s telecast of the Chicago Bears’ comeback victory over the Green Bay Packers averaged 31.61 million viewers, the largest audience to date for a streaming-exclusive NFL game. The previous record — which stood for all of 16 days — was 27.52 million for Netflix’s Christmas telecast of a game between the Detroit Lions and Minnesota Vikings.
In picking Packers-Bears for Prime Video, the NFL knew exactly what it was doing. The best matchup of the wild-card round became the most exciting of the six games, too. That propelled the contest to an all-time streaming record, with 31.61 million viewers.
Cold early temperatures give way to clear skies and light winds in Denver, while both teams enter the Wild Card matchup with key defensive injuries.