The NFL playoffs standings has four teams left with two in the AFC and in the NFC for the championship round games and on TV starting up on the schedule next Sunday has the Seattle Seahawks taking on the San Francisco 49ers, while the New England Patriots will visit the Denver Broncos and those games will decide who plays in the Super Bowl in 2014.
The Seattle Seahawks come into the NFC championship game as the number one seed in the conference after winning the NFC West during the regular season and the team advanced after defeating the New Orleans Saints for the second time this season. The Seahawks are nearly unbeatable at CenturyLink Field and they have only lost once there over the past two seasons and now Russell Wilson will face off against Colin Kaepernick on Sunday and that will be the late game on the schedule at 6:30 pm on FOX and will be after the first matchup with the Patriots and the Broncos.
The game between the Denver Broncos and the New England Patriots will be from Sports Authority Field at Mile High at will start up at 3:00 pm ET on CBS and is the early game and has quarterback Tom Brady facing off against Peyton Manning for the 15th time in their careers and comes after the two teams played earlier this season. The Broncos come into the game after outlasting the San Diego Chargers on Sunday and that game saw a nice comeback from SD, while the Pats ended up winning big after running all over the Colts on Saturday night.
The Seahawks and the Niners know each other very well and so do the teams in the AFC and that leaves some interesting narratives for both championship games and for the Super Bowl as well and we can take a look at some of them. The coaches in the NFC have no love lost from their days in college with Jim Harbaugh and Pete Carroll battling back in their Pac-12 days and they have always been going back and forth with each other, while Bill Belichick and Peyton Manning have faced off a number of times.
The Seahawks are Carroll have the chance to get to the Super Bowl as favorites after many picked them at the beginning of the season and he may have the chance to face off against his former team, as he used to be the head coach of the Patriots. Brady comes in having played a solid game on Saturday and he didn't even need to toss a touchdown pass and now he faces off against the quarterback that broke his single season passing record for TDs in Manning.
Both match ups should be great and the schedule has the New England Patriots visiting the Denver Broncos at 3 pm on CBS, while the Seattle Seahawks will host the San Francisco 49ers at 6:30 pm on FOX.
Check here for more on the standings and the schedule for the playoffs.