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Getty Images The NFL released the playoff schedule minutes after the 49ers finished off the Seahawks to secure the top seed in the NFC. The AFC teams will play the wild-card round Saturday and the NFC teams Sunday. The Texans and Bills will open the postseason on Saturday with a 4:35 p.m. ET...

The Bills called a timeout ahead of the first play of the Jets’ second offensive possession on Sunday so that they could remove linebacker Lorenzo Alexander from the game to a loud ovation from the home crowd. Alexander said back in January that he expected 2019 to be his final season in the...

Getty Images The lines are out for this weekend’s four wild card games, and the Saints are the biggest favorites. New Orleans is an eight-point home favorite over Minnesota, as listed by multiple sports books. That’s no surprise, as the Saints were 13-3 this season, the best record of any team...

Getty Images The Bills know they are the fifth seed in the AFC no matter what happens in their game or elsewhere in the league on Sunday, so they are going to give some of their key offensive players a rest against the Jets. Wide receivers Cole Beasley and John Brown, tight end Dawson Knox and...

Getty Images The Bills scratched several key players for Sunday’s game against the Jets, but linebacker Lorenzo Alexander was not one of them. Alexander took the field for the first Jets possession of the game and came back out for the second, but Bills head coach Sean McDermott called a...

Getty Images Quarterback Josh Allen and cornerback Levi Wallace weren’t among the starters rested by the Bills on Sunday, but both are out of the game in the first quarter. Allen’s departure was less dramatic than Wallace’s exit. Wallace intercepted a pass by Jets quarterback Sam Darnold that...

Getty Images The Bills have bigger fish to fry than Sunday’s game against the Jets and they’re resting a bunch of starters, but that hasn’t caused them to roll over against the Jets on a wet afternoon in Buffalo. They’ve kept the Jets out of the end zone through the first 30 minutes of action...

The Jets opened the year with a loss to the Bills and they were able to reverse that result in the regular season finale. Sam Darnold threw a fourth quarter touchdown and a Bills offense that was missing a lot of key players failed to get in the end zone during a 13-6 Jets victory. The win...

Getty Images All 32 teams will be playing their final regular season game on Sunday. They have handed in their final injury reports of the week and all injury designations for those games are below. Dolphins at Patriots The Dolphins ruled out CB Jomal Wiltz (shoulder). LB Vince Biegel...

Getty Images After the Jets beat the Steelers last week and I saw that their record is 6-9, I did a double take. The Jets? 6-9? How could this be? They stink. They’re embattled. They’re the subject of constant criticism and derision from certain aspects of the never-satisfied New York media...

Getty Images Elbert Dubenion, a member of the Bills Wall of Fame, died this week, the team announced Thursday. Dubenion was 86. He battled Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease the past several years. Dubenion, whose nickname was Golden Wheels, died on the 55th anniversary of the Bills’ first...

Getty Images Bills coach Sean McDermott said on Monday that he had not decided whether to play the team’s starters against the Jets in Week 17, but he’s made some decisions. McDermott said at a Tuesday press conference that the majority of the team’s starters will play in the regular season...

Getty Images The Bills are going to be the fifth seed in the AFC playoffs whether they beat the Jets, lose to them or tie Sunday’s game, which made it natural that head coach Sean McDermott would hear a question about playing his starters in Week 17. McDermott got that question at a Monday...

Getty Images The NFL released the following playoff scenarios for the final week of the season. AFC CLINCHED: Baltimore Ravens – AFC North division and home-field advantage throughout AFC playoffs Houston Texans – AFC South division Kansas City Chiefs – AFC West division New England...

Getty Images The Vikings clinched a playoff berth Saturday night without even taking the field. The Rams’ loss to the 49ers sewed up a trip to the postseason for Minnesota, which missed the playoffs a year ago after making the NFC Championship Game in the 2017 season. It’s the third time the...

Getty Images The Patriots are the champions of the AFC East. Again. New England won its division for the NFL record 11th consecutive year by defeating Buffalo 24-17 tonight. It was a good game that the Bills appeared to have a great chance of winning when they took a 17-13 lead in the second...

Getty Images The Bills had the 10-time defending AFC East champions on the ropes. They couldn’t punch them through. “Well, credit goes to them,” Bills quarterback Josh Allen told reporters after the 24-17 loss to the Patriots. “They played a heck of a game. It’s a really good defense and...

Getty Images Saturday’s NFL tripleheader is, frankly, better than the three games the league served up three weeks and two days ago, on Thanksgiving. Unlike Bears-Lions, Bills-Cowboys, and Saints-Falcons, however, Saturday’s three games won’t be seen on three-letter networks. If you have NFL...

Getty Images Patriots cornerback Jason McCourty is back in the lineup this week, but the Patriots are still short in the secondary. Cornerback Jonathan Jones is inactive for this afternoon’s game against the Bills, because of a groin injury. McCourty didn’t play last week against the Bengals...

Getty Images The Bills are already an AFC playoff team, but today they’re trying to show they belong among the elite teams in the conference. Early on, the results are positive. After the Patriots’ first possession ended with Rex Burkhead fumbling, the Bills took over and quickly got on the...