The Monday Night Football schedule for ESPN is now all set after Week 17 and the final game was the previous week with the Niners and the Falcons and now the NFL calendar moves to the playoffs after the Sunday schedule and now postseason matchups are coming along and the first ones will be on Saturday and the MNF schedule will pick up on TV starting next season.
The last game on ESPN this season for Monday night football has the San Francisco 49ers playing against the Atlanta Falcons in the closing game for Candlestick Park in the regular season and now the playoffs are here and the last game of the season for MNF was in Week 16 and Week 17 had the full schedule play out on Sunday and there was no game left to play on Monday. The last game of the regular season had the Dallas Cowboys hosting the Chicago Bears with the NFC East championship on the line and the Boys, playing without Tony Romo, lost to the Philadelphia Eagles, meaning the team will miss the playoffs for the fourth season in a row and this is the third time they have missed it on the final week of the season, losing to the New York Giants two seasons ago and then to the Washington Redskins last year.
The Eagles now are in the playoffs under first year head coach Chip Kelly and the team has been very impressive on offense and now they are the NFC East champs and will be hosting a postseason game. The New Orleans Saints ended up in the sixth spot in the NFC wild card and now they will visit Lincoln Financial Field for the playoffs and that game will be the late game on NBC on Sunday night and that comes after the team lost the division to the Carolina Panthers, who now have a bye in the first round and the number two seed and could be a very dangerous team in the conference.
The Kansas City Chiefs battled hard against the San Diego Chargers despite the fact that they had nothing to play for and the game went into overtime and they ended up in the playoffs as the sixth seed in the AFC and now Kansas City stays in the fifth seed and they will play on wild card weekend against the Indianapolis Colts at Lucas Oil Stadium. The Colts won the AFC South division title behind Andrew Luck and they are hosting a playoff game in his second year and that game will be on NBC along with the Saints and Eagles and the first game begins at 4:35 pm on Saturday.
The games on Sunday have the San Diego Chargers taking on the Cincinnati Bengals on CBS and that will be the 1:05 pm game and the second matchup will be the San Francisco 49ers taking on the Green Bay Packers from Lambeau Field. The NFC Wild Card game is a rematch from last season and that game was at Candlestick Park and now the matchup will be in Wisconsin and comes after Aaron Rodgers returned to the lineup after missing seven games and he connected with Randall Cobb for the winning touchdown for the NFC North division title.
Check here for the playoff schedule.