Playoffs - Wild Card Weekend schedule

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Playoffs - Wild Card Weekend



SAT, JAN 3

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Arizona at Carolina
4:20 PM
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Bank of America Stadium


Baltimore at Pittsburgh
8:15 PM
NBC
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Heinz Field


SUN, JAN 4
TIME (ET)
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Cincinnati at Indianapolis
1:05 PM
CBS
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Lucas Oil Stadium


Detroit at Dallas
4:40 PM
FOX
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AT&T Stadium

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The Carolina Panthers may have a losing record, but they are one of the NFL's hotter teams entering the playoffs.

Their young, new-look secondary will probably be relishing a matchup against third-string quarterback Ryan Lindley.
The Panthers, the first team to earn back-to-back NFC South titles, will host Lindley and the Arizona Cardinals on Saturday in a wild-card playoff game.
Carolina (7-8-1) is the second team with a losing record to reach the postseason. The 2010 Seattle Seahawks captured the West despite going 7-9 and won a home playoff game over New Orleans.
"It tells you that no matter what you do during the regular season, it just doesn't matter," running back Jonathan Stewart said. "Things amp up to a whole different notch in the playoffs."
There are many other comparisons to the 2014 Seahawks the Panthers are looking at instead. One is that Carolina has won four straight, with Seattle the only team with a longer win streak at six.
Though many factors have contributed to this run by the Panthers, a key one has been the emergence of a secondary that has limited opposing quarterbacks to a 64.6 passer rating in the last four weeks -- second only to Seattle in the NFC -- and a conference-best 5.62 yards per attempt.
Carolina has yielded 43 points over the last four weeks, with only Seattle giving up fewer (33).
These games are the first four in which safety Tre Boston and cornerback Bene Benwikere -- rookies drafted in the fourth and fifth round, respectively -- have started together.
"We were trying to find answers as a coaching staff, the right combination of guys -- and we found it," coach Ron Rivera said.
Normally a coach may be wary of using a rookie-laden secondary in the playoffs but that may not be the case with Lindley starting for Arizona (11-5), which has dropped four of six.
Lindley is 1-5 as a starter and ended an NFL-record 229 pass attempts without a touchdown by throwing a 20-yarder to Michael Floyd on a flea-flicker play on the Cardinals' opening possession in Sunday's 20-17 loss in San Francisco.
"It was good to get the monkey off my back a little bit," he said, "but I'm glad I got it out of the way in the beginning and just finished up the game and let it roll."
Lindley finished with two TDs, three interceptions and a career-best 316 yards. The effort came one game after he produced a 47.2 rating in a 35-6 loss to Seattle, which caused coach Bruce Arians to temporarily name rookie Logan Thomas his starter before he turned back to Lindley.
With Carson Palmer out for the year with a knee injury, Drew Stanton would normally be the starter. Stanton has missed the last two games with a sprained knee, and the Cardinals waited until Friday to officially rule him out. Stanton won't be in uniform, leaving Thomas as the backup.
Arians said Lindley is not overwhelmed by the situation.
"That's one thing that's got everybody excited," Arians said. "It's not been too big for him. He's as calm as you could be out there, and they all know he knows what he's doing. That's the confidence factor everybody has."
Cam Newton failed to play all 16 games for the first time and produced career lows in passer rating (82.1), touchdown passes (18) and touchdown runs (five).
The fourth-year quarterback has started the last two games after missing one due to two lower back fractures suffered in a vehicle accident. He has rushed for one TD each of the last two weeks.
Arians said Newton is a tougher matchup than Seattle's Russell Wilson and San Francisco's Colin Kaepernick -- who have combined for 151 rushing yards the last two weeks against his defense.
"He presents different problems than Colin and Russell," Arians said. "He's more of a combination of both those guys. He can really throw the football extremely well from the pocket. It presents a multitude of problems for us."
The coach said inside linebacker Larry Foote will be back after the 13-year NFL veteran missed Sunday's game with a sore knee.
Newton only needed to produce a season-low 114 passing yards in Sunday's 34-3 rout at Atlanta that clinched the division. Carolina's defense dominated with six sacks while Boston returned his first career interception 84 yards for a score.
The quarterback is 0-2 against the Cardinals, finishing with no touchdowns and three interceptions in a 22-6 loss Oct. 6, 2013.
"One thing that I remember is that we had somewhat of a lackluster performance, whether you wanna call it those guys doing their job better than we did ours, what have you," Newton said. "We lost and that's pretty much it."
The Panthers are still smarting from last season's 23-10 playoff defeat to the 49ers. Some of them also remember the only postseason meeting between these teams when the Cardinals routed the Panthers 33-13 in a 2008 divisional matchup in which Larry Fitzgerald had eight catches for 166 yards and a score.
There are six Carolina players left from that game.
"It's been six years but I'm still mad about this game (and motivated by it)," running back DeAngelo Williams tweeted this week, posting a highlight video of the game with a picture of the score.

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Ndamukong Suh is the main reason why Detroit has the league's best rushing defense.

Now that he's available for the Lions, NFL rushing champion DeMarco Murray's job got that much tougher heading into his first postseason game.
The NFC East-champion Dallas Cowboys rode Murray all season to produce the league's second-best rushing attack and figure to be severely tested by Suh and Detroit's defensive front in Sunday's wild-card playoff game in Arlington.
Suh was initially suspended for stepping on Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers' left leg twice last Sunday in a 30-20 loss that ended a four-game win streak and gave the Packers the North title. He stepped on Rodgers once with each foot, which violated unnecessary roughness rules, according to the league.
However, hearing officer Ted Cottrell handled Suh's expedited appeal Tuesday and ruled that he can play at Dallas (12-4) but must pay an accompanying $70,000 fine.
Suh made it clear Wednesday he wasn't going to elaborate on the matter.
"I'm just pleased with the decision and glad I have the opportunity -- I can go against Dallas and help my teammates win the game," he said. "I think that's most important."
Suh's short-lived suspension came after Detroit center Dominic Raiola served a one-game ban against the Packers for stepping on a Chicago player the week before.
"I know I'm chomping at the bit to get back out there," Raiola said. "I just think this team is hungry. The more shots that people take at us, the stronger we get, the tougher we get."
Detroit (11-5) limited opponents to 69.3 rushing yards per game with 133 tackles for a loss to lead the league in both departments.
Now the Lions face their biggest challenge in Murray, whose 1,845 rushing yards broke Emmitt Smith's franchise record and were the third-most in the NFL over the last eight seasons. His 12 100-yard efforts matched the second-highest total in league history.
Murray and an offensive line that had three players named to the Pro Bowl are why Dallas (12-4) averaged 147.1 rushing yards to trail only Seattle.
"If you look at the numbers, they'll tell you that they run the ball obviously as well as anybody in the league and you look at it statistically for us, we're right up there at the top in the rankings in terms of stopping the run," Detroit coach Jim Caldwell said. "So all in all, I think it's going to be a real good battle."
The running game has clearly bolstered Tony Romo, who is considered an MVP candidate after he led the NFL in passer rating (career-best 113.2) and yards per attempt (8.52). He finished fourth in the league with 34 touchdown passes.
"The fact that we've gotten stronger and better on the offensive line has certainly helped," coach Jason Garrett said. "The fact that we're running the ball well and more certainly has helped him but Tony has played awfully well ...
"He's the guy who orchestrates and leads everything we do on offense."
Romo looks to improve on a 1/3 playoff record in his first postseason appearance in five seasons. Counterpart Matthew Stafford is in the postseason for the second time after losing to New Orleans to close the 2011 season.
The Lions have rallied to win both times when Stafford has faced Romo.
Detroit erased a 24-point, second-half deficit in a 34-30 road victory Oct. 2, 2011, in which Romo threw for three scores as well as three interceptions. It was the first game in Dallas for Stafford, who went to high school in the area.
"It's always fun to go back there and play," Stafford said. "I've done it once in my career so I'm (going to) do it again, it should be fun."
The Cowboys blew a 10-point lead with less than 4 minutes left when Stafford scored a on a winning one-yard run with 12 seconds to go in a 31-30 win at Detroit on Oct. 27, 2013. He also threw for 488 yards -- many to Calvin Johnson.
Johnson posted the best effort of his illustrious career as he had career highs of 14 receptions for 329 yards -- the second-best total in NFL history.
He topped 1,000 yards for the fifth straight year, though his total of 1,077 marked his lowest in that span for Detroit, which averaged 20.1 points to rank 22nd.
Dez Bryant set a Cowboys record with an NFL-best 16 TD receptions to go with 1,320 receiving yards for a team averaging of 29.2 points to rank fifth.
Dallas won its fourth straight with Sunday's 44-17 rout at Washington and was one of five teams that tied for the NFL's best record.

"We know what we have to do and we did exactly what we wanted to do," Bryant said. "We just have to keep fighting, have to keep playing together."
The Cowboys did suffer a blow when defensive tackle Henry Melton was lost for the season with a right knee injury against the Redskins.
Detroit has dropped 10 of 11 playoff games in the Super Bowl era and its current seven-game losing streak is one shy of the tying the record held by Kansas City, which hasn't won a playoff game since 1993.
Dallas has won once in its last eight postseason contests and fifth-year coach Garrett will make his playoff debut against Caldwell, who is 2-2 and guided Indianapolis to the Super Bowl after the 2009 season.

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my Cardinals decimated with injuries..specifically QB..lol...i wud like too see the Detroit Lions take a run at it..