2nd Quarter
Chiefs 21, Bills 9
A.F.C. Championship
Jan. 24, 2021, 7:53 p.m. ET
After spotting the Bills nine points, the Chiefs have now scored two convincing touchdowns, and both of them involved wide receiver Mecole Hardman. The Chiefs now lead, 14-9, midway through the second quarter.
After stopping the Bills on their fourth drive of the game, Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes tossed the ball to Hardman on a play-action call on first-and-10 from the Kansas City 18-yard line. The receive found the edge and sprinted into the open field for a 50-yard gain.
Two plays later, Mahomes found workhorse tight end Travis Kelce for a 15-yard gain that put the Chiefs on Buffalo’s 6-yard line. Kelce has seven catches for 64 yards. From there, Williams took the handoff and ran up the middle for a 6-yard score. Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker connected on the extra point attempt.
Despite the Bills’ early lead, the momentum in the game has swung with the Chiefs’ defense locking in on the Bills offense. Buffalo’s cornerbacks have tightly covered the Bills’ leading receiver, Stefon Diggs, and blitzed quarterback Josh Allen.
2nd Quarter
Chiefs 14, Bills 9
A.F.C. Championship
Jan. 24, 2021, 7:36 p.m. ET
Kansas City wide receiver Mecole Hardman atoned for a muffed punt by catching a short touchdown pass to give the Chiefs their first points of the A.F.C. championship game. The sccore narrowed the Buffalo Bills’ lead to 9-7.
The Chiefs put together a methodical 14-play, 80-yard drive, with quarterback Patrick Mahomes hitting two of his favorite targets, tight end Travis Kelce (four catches on the drive) and wide receiver Tyreek Hill.
Mahomes showed no ill effects from an injured toe he suffered in last week’s game against the Cleveland Browns. The quarterback had also entered the league’s concussion protocol after a hit in that game sidelined him.
While he didn’t run the ball on the first touchdown drive, Mahomes looked comfortable in the pocket looking for receivers. He hit Hardman with a short pass before connecting with him on a 3-yard touchdown score to end the drive that lasted nearly seven minutes.
With Travis Kelce in motion, Patrick Mahomes hits Mecole Hardman on a quick WR screen pass (1.14s time to throw), who takes it in for the 3-yard score.
Mahomes: 11th TD pass on a screen since 2018 (4 more than any other QB in that span)#BUFvsKC | #ChiefsKingdom pic.twitter.com/mMC2tBxroH
— Next Gen Stats (@NextGenStats) January 25, 2021
2nd Quarter
Bills 9, Chiefs 7
A.F.C. Championship
1st Quarter
Bills 9, Chiefs 0
A.F.C. Championship
Jan. 24, 2021, 7:12 p.m. ET
The Bills got the first big break of the A.F.C. Championship Game — a recovery of a muffed catch on a punt — and quickly turned it into a touchdown to add to their early field goal.
After a missed extra point, the Bills now lead the Chiefs 9-0 with six minutes remaining in the first quarter.
When their second drive stalled on their end of the field, the Bills punted. Mecole Hardman, the Chiefs punt returner, dropped the ball near the Chiefs 10-yard line. The ball bounced all the way back to the goal line with Bills players scrambling for it. Taiwan Jones fell on the ball.
On the next play, quarterback Josh Allen hit tight end Dawson Knox, who walked into the end zone for the score.
On his first two drives of the game, Allen completed 4 of 8 passes for 38 yards. He kept the Bills’ opening drive alive when Buffalo opted to go for it on third-and-3 from their own 22-yard line, finding Knox with a 17-yard pass. Buffalo closed that drive with a 51-yard field goal to open scoring.
Allen’s scrambles were critical to the Bills’ second drive, as he twice ran for third-down conversions with rushes of 17 and 15 yards.
1st Quarter
Bills 3, Chiefs 0
A.F.C. Championship
Jan. 24, 2021, 6:41 p.m. ET
The Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills will have more than a conference championship on the line when they face each other Sunday night: They have history, too.
The Chiefs, who had a league-best 14-2 record this season, are trying to become the first team since the New England Patriots to win back-to-back Super Bowls. Only seven teams (including the Pittsburgh Steelers, who did it twice) have accomplished the feat, and only two — the Patriots and the Denver Broncos — have won consecutive titles after the 1994 season, when the league installed a salary cap.
Snake-bitten Bills fans will take even one championship. Buffalo made history in the early 1990s by playing in four straight Super Bowls. Unfortunately, they also made history by losing all of them. This is their first trip to the A.F.C. championship game since the 1993 season, the last year of that four-year run.
This Bills team went 13-3 in the regular season and won the A.F.C. East for the first time in a quarter-century, unseating the Patriots. Quarterback Josh Allen had an M.V.P.-caliber year, throwing for more than 4,500 yards and 37 touchdowns, and running for another eight scores. His favorite target, Stefon Diggs, led the league in receptions and receiving yards.
The Buffalo defense will have to stop Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who was knocked out of last week’s victory over Cleveland with a concussion. Mahomes has shown an uncanny ability to befuddle defenses, including in last year’s playoffs, when he helped the Chiefs erase a 24-point lead in the divisional round. The Kansas City offense is loaded with talent, from tight end Travis Kelce to wide receiver Tyreek Hill.
This is the fourth playoff matchup between the Bills and Chiefs. Buffalo won the first two in the 1990s. The Chiefs’ only win came in 1967, when they beat the Bills and faced the Green Bay Packers for the title.
Final
Buccaneers 31, Packers 26
N.F.C. Championship
Jan. 24, 2021, 6:26 p.m. ET
In March, seeking a rewarding second chapter to a glittering career, Tom Brady signed a $50 million free-agent contract with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after 20 seasons and six Super Bowl victories as quarterback for the New England Patriots. The hope in Tampa was that Brady’s megawatt celebrity and proven talent could sprinkle a little stardust on a middling N.F.L. franchise and perhaps vault it to the league’s upper echelon.
On Sunday, Brady and the Buccaneers got their wishes. And maybe more.
In a stirring, tense duel between two future Hall of Fame quarterbacks, Brady and the Buccaneers held off a late charge by Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers for a 31-26 upset victory in the N.F.C. championship game in Green Bay, Wis. The Buccaneers will become the first N.F.L. team to play a Super Bowl in its home stadium, on Feb. 7.
After the game, when Coach Bruce Arians was asked what Brady had brought with him to Tampa Bay, he said: “The belief he gave everybody in the organization that this could be done. It only took one man.”
Brady, in a postgame interview, tried to deflect credit for the victory, but said: “Who would have even thought a home Super Bowl for us? But we did it.”
Addressing Buccaneers fans, Arians shouted: “We’re coming home, and we’re coming home to win.”
Tampa Bay, which has won three successive postseason games on the road this month, took an 11-point halftime lead on two Brady touchdown passes. The Packers, the top seed in the conference, stormed back, trimming the deficit to 5 points late in the third quarter. But Brady, who will be making his 10th Super Bowl appearance, led fifth-seeded Tampa Bay to a pivotal fourth-quarter field goal, and the Packers failed to score a touchdown on a crucial, late possession despite a first-and-goal at the Buccaneers’ 8-yard line.
The Buccaneers will play the winner of Sunday night’s A.F.C. championship game, between the Buffalo Bills and the host Kansas City Chiefs, in the Super Bowl at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla. Brady, 43, will become just the fourth quarterback to lead two franchises to the Super Bowl. It was also done by Kurt Warner, Peyton Manning and Craig Morton.
For Rodgers, who won the Super Bowl at the end of the 2010 season, Sunday’s loss was his fourth in a conference championship game.
With both teams depleted by injuries — the Packers were without running back Aaron Jones and Tampa Bay was missing both starting safeties — Green Bay charged back from an 18-point deficit with two third-quarter touchdown passes by Rodgers, who completed 33 of 48 passes for 346 yards. The Packers, assisted by a penalty for a helmet-to-helmet hit near the goal line, cut the Tampa Bay lead to 5 points after a 2-yard touchdown pass from Rodgers to Davante Adams. Green Bay attempted 2-point conversion was unsuccessful, and it trailed Tampa Bay, 28-23.
The Packers’ rally was greatly assisted by three interceptions thrown in the second half by Brady, who completed 20 of 36 passes for 280 yards and three touchdowns. But only one of those interceptions led to a Packers touchdown. More significant was Green Bay’s last possession, when Rodgers led his team to the Tampa Bay 8-yard line with the chance to tie the game with a touchdown and a successful 2-point conversion. Rodgers instead threw three successive incompletions — the last two directed at Adams — and Green Bay settled for a field goal rather than trying for the end zone again on fourth down with slightly more than two minutes remaining.
That decision proved consequential since the Packers never possessed the football again.
4th Quarter
Buccaneers 31, Packers 26
N.F.C. Championship
Jan. 24, 2021, 6:13 p.m. ET
After failing to get in the end zone despite a first down at the Tampa Bay 8-yard line, the Packers settled for a 26-yard field goal by Mason Crosby with 2 minutes and 9 seconds left in the fourth quarter, to narrow the Buccaneers’ lead to 31-26.
That score followed a Tampa Bay field goal that ended Tom Brady’s interception streak. With 4 minutes and 46 seconds remaining, Tampa Bay’s Ryan Succop had extended the Buccaneers’ lead to 31-23 with a 46-yard field goal that punctuated an 8-play, 44-yard drive.
4th Quarter
Buccaneers 31, Packers 23
N.F.C. Championship
Jan. 24, 2021, 5:48 p.m. ET
Staying aggressive, the Buccaneers moved deep into Green Bay territory early in the fourth quarter and seemed poised to extend their lead. Tom Brady had completed two of three passes in a smooth drive. But a pass over the middle for Mike Evans was a bit high and ticked just off Evans’s fingertips. Green Bay defensive back Jaire Alexander caught the deflection and returned the interception to the Green Bay 19-yard line. Three straight Tampa Bay possessions ended in Brady interceptions.
But the Packers could not make anything of the turnover as the Buccaneers outside linebacker Shaq Barrett sacked Rodgers on third down to force a punt. The Tampa Bay defense has sacked Rodgers four times today and eight times this season counting the Buccaneers regular season rout of Green Bay.
On the next Buccaneers possession, Brady, under pressure from the Green Bay pass rush, threw a reckless pass downfield that floated and was intercepted by Alexander again. Evans was again the target but was more than five yards from the underthrown pass. The Tampa Bay defense, however, forced another Green Bay punt after three plays.
3rd Quarter
Buccaneers 28, Packers 23
N.F.C. Championship
Jan. 24, 2021, 5:30 p.m. ET
With both teams depleted by key injuries — Packers running back Aaron Jones left the game with an injury and Tampa Bay is missing both starting safeties — Green Bay stormed back with a second successive third-quarter touchdown in a game in which they had trailed by 18 points.
The Packers, assisted by a penalty for a helmet-to-helmet hit near the goal line, cut the Tampa Bay lead to five points after a 2-yard touchdown pass from Aaron Rodgers to Davante Adams. Green Bay attempted an unsuccessful 2-point conversion and trails Tampa Bay, 28-23.
The sequence began when Tampa Bay quarterback Tom Brady, who has been brazenly flinging the football deep downfield throughout Sunday’s game, too one risk too many. Trying to connect with wide receiver Mike Evans along the right sideline, Brady’s deep throw fluttered a bit and Green Bay safety Adrian Amos had time to run over from the middle of the field to intercept the pass and give the Packers the football at their own 32-yard line.
Tom Brady is picked-off by Adrian Amos!
With Jaire Alexander in press coverage, Mike Evans struggled to separate, never gaining more than 2 yards of separation at any moment of the route.
🔸 Jaire Alexander (today): 3 targets, 0 receptions allowed#TBvsGB | #GoPackGo pic.twitter.com/rPZ23pC9nA
— Next Gen Stats (@NextGenStats) January 24, 2021
A methodical Green Bay drive ensued with a mix of running and passing plays, and the Packers advanced into Tampa Bay territory. Green Bay converted a third-and-2 from the Tampa Bay 24-yard line with an 11-yard reception by Jamaal Williams. Two plays later, a 7-yard pass to Adams concluded with a tackle by Tampa Bay’s Carlton Davis, who lowered his head as he collided with Adams.
Three plays later, Rodgers found Adams on a quick in-route in the end zone.
3rd Quarter
Buccaneers 28, Packers 17
N.F.C. Championship
Jan. 24, 2021, 5:10 p.m. ET
Trailing by 18 points, the Packers went to the air more frequently than they probably anticipated early in the third quarter. But that aggressiveness paid off when tight end Robert Tonyan caught an 8-yard touchdown pass from Rodgers at the end of an eight-play, 75-yard drive. The score cut the Tampa Bay lead to 28-17.
Rodgers was clearly looking to his more featured wide receivers early in the play but since they were either double covered or not open, he came back to the middle of the formation where Tonyan had found an unoccupied seam. With a sidearm motion, Rodgers zipped the ball for the touchdown that quickly got Green Bay back in the game. Rodgers was 5 of 6 passing in the possession.
Jan. 24, 2021, 4:57 p.m. ET
Tampa Bay’s ascendant second-year linebacker Devin White was in the middle of a meaningful play for the second consecutive week when he recovered a fumble by Green Bay running back Aaron Jones at the start of the second half that led to another Buccaneers touchdown. Jones had caught a key third-down pass from Aaron Rodgers and was trying to pick up the first down when the football was dislodged on a tackle by Jordan Whitehead.
White recovered the ball and ran it to the Packers’ 8-yard line. On the Buccaneers’ next play, Tom Brady threw a touchdown pass to tight end Cameron Brate for a 28-10 Tampa Bay lead. It was Brady’s third touchdown pass of the game.
White missed the Buccaneers’ opening playoff victory over the Washington Football Team because he was on the Covid-19 reserve list, but he has been a dominant force since.
In Tampa Bay’s 30-20 upset victory over the New Orleans Saints last weekend, White recovered a pivotal fumble by Saints tight end Jared Cook that led to a game-tying touchdown in the third quarter. He also made 11 tackles and had a game-clinching fourth quarter interception. In the regular season, White led the Buccaneers in tackles with 140, including 97 solo tackles.
“Great players usually smell blood in the water,” Tampa Bay defensive coordinator Todd Bowles said of White last week. “I think sitting at home for a week really inspired him to show what he was missing, so he wanted to come out and make a splash.”
After the Saints game, White said he liked “to put his stamp on a game.” He added: “I felt like I hadn’t made a big play. The game was still tight and I didn’t want it to be tight.”
Said Tampa Bay Coach Bruce Arians: “That’s just typical Devin — flying around and making tackles and making some of the most important plays of the game.”
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Jan. 24, 2021, 4:46 p.m. ET
On the final play from scrimmage in the first half, the Buccaneers continued to take advantage of their opponent's mistakes — as they have throughout the postseason. This time Tampa Bay capitalized on a late Aaron Rodgers interception at midfield that gave Tom Brady a short field and under 30 seconds to score.
Brady threw a stunning, 39-yard touchdown strike to Bucs receiver Scotty Miller with one second left in the second quarter that put Tampa Bay ahead, 21-10. Tampa Bay came into Sunday’s game with 27 points scored following turnovers in its two previous road victories.
The sequence began when the Packers took over at their own 13-yard line with slightly more than two minutes remaining before intermission. On a third-and-9, the Buccaneers blitzed again, which left Allen Lazard open over the middle for a 23-yard reception. But on the next play, the Buccaneers Jason Pierre-Paul burst past the Packers left tackle Billy Turner and pounded Aaron Rodgers to the ground for his second sack of the game.
After a timeout, Tampa Bay defensive back Sean Murphy-Bunting got away with grabbing Lazard’s jersey as they jostled downfield. Then Murphy-Bunting cut in front of Lazard to intercept a Rodgers pass with less than 30 seconds remaining before intermission.
The Buccaneers gained only six yards on three ensuing plays but went for it on fourth down at the Packers’ 45-yard line with 13 seconds left in the half. A Brady pass to Leonard Fournette picked up the first down and on the next play, which began with eight seconds on the clock, Brady threw in the left corner of the end zone to Miller, who ran away from Green Bay cornerback Kevin King.
2nd Quarter
Buccaneers 14, Packers 10
N.F.C. Championship
Jan. 24, 2021, 4:16 p.m. ET
A 24-yard field goal by Green Bay’s Mason Crosby trimmed the Buccaneers’ lead to 14-10 but the Packers had to be frustrated when they couldn’t score a touchdown despite having first-and-goal at the Tampa Bay 6-yard line. Plus, Aaron Rodgers had three good opportunities to connect with his top target, Davante Adams.
At the start of the Packers' possession, the Buccaneers continued to hassle Aaron Rodgers in the pocket by blitzing a fifth pass rusher, although that put in motion a cat-and-mouse game, with Rodgers trying to find his hot receiver before the pass rush reached him. Sometimes that strategy did not work (Rodgers has been sacked twice and harried), but sometimes it did, like on the two receptions Marquez Valdes-Scantling and Davante Adams caught to extend the second-quarter drive.
More important, the Green Bay offensive line began to create running room for Aaron Jones and Jamaal Williams, who each had 12-yard dashes early in the drive.
Deep in the Buccaneers’ end of the field, Jones rushed on three consecutive plays to set up a first-and-goal for the Packers from the 6-yard line. On a quick throw to the left, Adams dropped a first-down pass in the end zone, although Rodgers’s throw was slightly behind him. On a second-down rollout, Rodgers went for Adams again but the pass was batted down. A third try to Adams was complete but beyond the end line of the end zone, setting up Crosby’s field goal with five minutes remaining in the half at the end of a 15-play possession.
2nd Quarter
Buccaneers 14, Packers 7
N.F.C. Championship
Jan. 24, 2021, 3:55 p.m. ET
After a tepid end to the first quarter, both teams unleashed some high-powered offenses and traded touchdowns early in the second quarter. That kept Tampa Bay ahead, 14-7.
Green Bay answered the Buccaneers’ opening-drive touchdown with a spectacular, 50-yard sideline pass from Aaron Rodgers to wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling that tied the game, 7-7, on the second play of the second quarter.
The drive began after Green Bay stopped the Buccaneers on their second drive — a sack of Tom Brady by Packers defensive tackle Kenny Clark was key. When the Packers’ offense took the field again, Tampa Bay’s Jason Pierre-Paul sacked Aaron Rodgers to push Green Bay deep into its own territory. But the Packers answered with a daring decision: They put Rodgers on the move as he rolled out in his own end zone, pausing just before he ran out of bounds to fire a 23-yard pass to wide receiver Allen Lazard.
Davante Adams then caught a 15-yard pass up the left sideline to advance the Packers to midfield as the first quarter ended.
After a short run by Aaron Jones softened the Buccaneers’ defense, Rodgers dropped back and looked for Valdes-Scantling all the way down the field, lofting the ball just over Tampa Bay cornerback Carlton Davis. Valdes-Scantling stumbled briefly but regained his balance to dash into the end zone.
But the Tampa Bay offense responded with a touchdown in less than two minutes. The Packers forced the Buccaneers into a third-and-9, but Tom Brady, who has come out confidently heaving the ball downfield, found wide receiver Chris Godwin, who made a juggling catch as he fell to the turf for a 52-yard reception. On the next play, running back Leonard Fournette ran around the right end, breaking tackles, spinning and bulling his way into the end zone for a 20-yard score.
Jan. 24, 2021, 3:31 p.m. ET
Looking as fearsome as it was against New Orleans in the wild-card round, the Buccaneers stuffed the Packers on Green Bay’s first drive. Tampa Bay’s defenders were swarming to the ball, animated and seemed to anticipating running lanes.
Green Bay picked up a first down on its second play when tight end Marcedes Lewis caught a 14-yard pass on the weak side of the formation. But running attempts by Jamaal Williams and Aaron Jones, who were both stars of Green Bay’s victory over the Los Angeles Rams last weekend, gained a total of 3 rushing yards as both players were met at the line of scrimmage on their carries.
Then, Rodgers was sacked by Shaq Barrett while trying to scramble on a third-down pass play. That forced a Green Bay punt.
1st Quarter
Buccaneers 7, Packers 0
N.F.C. Championship
Jan. 24, 2021, 3:19 p.m. ET
The Buccaneers opened the game with an impressive first drive with quarterback Tom Brady looking poised, efficient and at ease. Tampa Bay made it look easy while converting three third down situations, the last a 15-yard touchdown reception by Mike Evans.
Bucs 1st & 2nd down: 6 plays, 10 yards
— ProFootballReference (@pfref) January 24, 2021
Bucs 3rd down: 3 plays, 56 yards
On the first third down opportunity, the Packers blitzed and Tom Brady calmly waited in the pocket for wide receiver Mike Evans to release downfield. Brady then lofted a crisp, well-placed touch pass over the Packers defenders and into the arms of Evans for 27 yards. On Tampa Bay’s next third down, Brady fired a bullet to wide receiver Chris Godwin for 14 yards.
On a third and 7, Evans was slightly open in the left end zone, where Brady, who had perfect protection through the possession, again beat the coverage. The drive was 10 plays for 66 yards.
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