Benedict Bermange selects the best Super Wild Card Weekend stats in the NFL playoffs, including the Cincinnati Bengals’ first postseason win in 31 years and a near-perfect performance by Josh Allen.
Benedict Bermange, Sky Sports cricket statistician and big Buffalo Bills fan, dives into the NFL playoffs and picks the best stats from each week…
It was the first playoff game in NFL history in which both teams made at least four field goals. Evan McPherson and Daniel Carlson both converted four kicks. Eight combined field goals made the most playoff games in NFL history.
That Buffalo Bills defeated the New England Patriots 47-17 and scored the most points against Bill Belichick, including the playoffs. Belichick has lost by at least 28 points only three times in his career – and all three times against Billam. In Week 3 of the 2003 season, the Bills won 31–0, and in Week 16 of the 2020 season, the Bills won 38–9.
Accounts scored touchdowns in each of their first seven offensive possessions in the game—the first team to do so since the Patriots did so in Week 11 of the 2007 season against the Bills. They also didn’t hit, attempt a field goal, or flip the ball—the first team to ever do so in the same game in NFL history.
Josh Allen compiled a 157.6 passer rating in that win, the second most in NFL postseason history.
The only playoff game that Belichick won without Tom Brady remains the 1994 Wild Card game for the Cleveland Browns against the Patriots when Vinnie Testaverde was its starting quarterback.
That Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat the Philadelphia Eagles 31–15 to score 30 points in their fifth consecutive playoff game. The only team with such a long streak was the New Orleans Saints, who scored at least 30 points in six consecutive playoff games between 2009 and 2011. Prior to signing with Brady, the Buccaneers had only scored 30 points in two of the franchise’s 15 playoff games. story.
Last four playoff winners between San Francisco 49ers and Dallas Cowboys won the Super Bowl in 1981, 1992, 1993 and 1994, and the 49ers are looking to continue that streak after their 23-17 victory in Texas. The Cowboys took 14 penalties in a loss, the second most in playoff history, second only to the Raiders’ 17 penalties in a Wild Card game against the Denver Broncos in 1993.
Patrick Mahomes dominated the Kansas City Chiefs’ victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers, becoming the first player to throw for at least 400 yards and five touchdowns in a playoff victory. The only other player to have over 400 yards and five touchdown passes in a playoff game was Ben Roethlisberger, who lost to the Steelers in the 2017 divisional round against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Roethlisberger may well retire after his record-breaking fifth loss in the Wild Card round, ahead of Peyton Manning and Andy Dalton, who each lost four times in the same round.
