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NFL Divisional Playoff Schedule: Bucs, Saints To Play At 6:40 P. M. ET Sunday
BEAUTY UNLIMITED
ALANA
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Head Coach Bruce Ari- ans and the Tampa Bay Buc- caneers will get a third chance to beat the New Orleans Saints this season when the NFC South rivals face off in the NFL divisional playoff round.
After their victories in the wild-card round, the Bucs beating the Washington Foot- ball Team and the Saints de- feating the Chicago Bears, both teams will meet yet again on Sunday, January 17th at 6:40 p.m. ET on Fox.
That means a third round of Tom Brady vs. Drew Brees, and with Brees po- tentially retiring after this season, it could be the last
TOM BRADY
time we ever see the two most productive quarterbacks in pro football history face off against one another.
Bucs Beat Washington
In Close Wild Card Win
It wasn’t always pretty, but the Tampa Bay Bucca-
neers got their first playoff win since hoisting the Lom- bardi Trophy after the 2002 season, going on the road and beating the Washington Foot- ball Team 31-23 in the NFC wild-card round Saturday night.
Tom Brady turned in a vintage playoff performance, throwing for 382 yards and a pair of touchdown passes, with no turnovers. Leonard Fournette stepped in for an injured Ronald Jones, II and racked up 132 yards and a touchdown on 23 touches, while Mike Evans played through a knee injury set a Bucs playoff record with 119 receiving yards on six catches.
Mike Tomlin On Pittsburgh Steelers' Late-Season Collapse: 'We Were A Group That Died On The Vine'
MIKE TOMLIN
Tears streamed down Ben Roethlisberger's face. Sit- ting beside him on the bench, Maurkice Pouncey, one of his best friends and longtime teammates, also cried as the emotion spilled over.
The scoreboard facing them illuminated the unthink- able: Their season was over -- and their careers might be too.
After falling behind by four scores in the first half, the Pittsburgh Steelers couldn't complete the comeback Sun- day night, falling to the Cleve- land Browns in the wild-card round of the playoffs 48-37. A promising 11-0 season was re- duced to a 1-5 finish with a first-round exit at home -- with a final score that looked closer than it ever felt.
"We didn't do enough," Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said of the late-season col- lapse. "We didn't position them in enough good circum- stances. We didn't make enough plays, particularly in the critical moments. We were a group that died on the vine."
Bucs Fear Fractured Ankle For G Alex Cappa
The Tampa Bay Bucca- neers will be without starting right guard Alex Cappa for the rest of the playoffs, no matter how long their run might go.
Cappa suffered an ankle injury in Saturday night’s 31- 23 wild-card win over the Washington Football Team, and after the game, Bucs head coach Bruce Arians told the media the initial diagnosis doesn’t look promising.
ALEX CAPPA
“It looks like a fracture,” Arians said. “We’ll check on another X-Ray with a better X-Ray machine, but right now it does not look good.”
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