The Patriots beat the Texans in the divisional round of the NFL playoffs.
The New England Patriots are not done. Beating the Houston Texans in a defensive-dominated battle on Sunday afternoon, the team of first-year head coach Mike Vrabel managed to punch its ticket to the AFC Championship Game against the top-seeded Denver Broncos.
The game will take place on Sunday, Jan. 25 at 3 p.m. ET at Denver’s Empower Field at Mile High. It will be broadcast on CBS and Paramount+.
For the Patriots, who have now won 16 games this season and are one win away from the Super Bowl, the conference title game is familiar territory. They have advanced so far on 15 previous occasions, with two of them seeing them go up against the Broncos in Denver. While both of those games in 2013 and 2015 ended in defeat, the circumstances this time around are drastically different.
The Patriots have proven to be one of the toughest teams in football, led by an MVP-caliber quarterback and opportunistic defense. The Broncos, on the other hand, lost starting quarterback Bo Nix for the season during their 33-30 win over Buffalo on Saturday.
In Nix’s place, former Patriots backup QB Jarrett Stidham will start. The Maye-Stidham battle was not the AFC Championship Game anybody could have predicted before the season, but it is the one that will take place next Sunday.
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