Yesterday in Sports: 12/28/14

The NFL brought us an exciting day of football yesterday. The Final AFC Wild Card spot was up for grabs and four teams could have won it, and two of them were paying each other. The Chargers, Chiefs, Ravens and Texans all could have possibly ended up with the final spot, but only one could prevail. If the Chargers won they would get the spot, however the Chargers were playing the Chiefs, who also needed a win to keep their season alive. However San Diego was in luck because backup QB Chase Daniel was starting for KC due to an injury to regular starter, Alex Smith. Yet, Sand Diego would still lose the game, 19-7. The Chargers has lots of chances to score at the end of the game including having the ball 3 times with under 10 minutes left. Although Kansas City won, knocking San Diego out they still needed help. They still needed Baltimore and Houston to lose, lets see how they did.

Houston played against the 3-12 Jaguars, a game they should easily win, except Houston-like KC, was not only on their backup QB but their third QB, Case Keenum. Houston was able to win 23-17 partially due to an amazing defensive performance by JJ Watt. Watt had 6 tackles (4 for a loss) and 3 sacks (including a safety towards the end of the fourth quarter.) With the Texans win the Chiefs were then eliminated from the playoffs leaving the final spot up for grabs between Houston and Baltimore. If the Ravens could beat the Browns they would be headed to the playoffs. Cleveland was winning 10-3 heading in to the fourth quarter but a 17-0 fourth quarter lead but Joe Flacco's 2 TD passes.

Later in the day Green Bay would beat Detroit, the Steelers would beat the Bengals, and the Seahawks would beat the Rams. The table was then set and the playoffs look like this:

Team (My Prediction)
Cardinals (20) @ Panthers (16)
Ravens (20) @ Steelers(31)
Bengals(17) @ Colts(23)
Lions(13) @ Cowboys(31)

Byes: Patriots, Broncos, Seahawks, Packers.
The Playoffs start next week.
 *Note: The Buccaneers will have the first pick of the 2015 NFL draft due to their loss and will likely select Marcus Mariota.