The Raiders have stated that if any legal action were filed against them, that they would not renew with the Coliseum and find another, undetermined, temporary home for 2019 until Allegiant Stadium is finished. After the regular football season, the NFL schedule moves into the playoffs, which ultimately lead up to the Super Bowl. Metcalf is about to be fully unleashed upon the NFL… The previous record was held by, 31 teams wore a version of the NFL centennial emblem, with the NFL shield beneath the "100," on the yoke of their jerseys in place of the regular NFL shield. When the first Wild-Card team has been identified, the procedure is [42] Mosaic Stadium in Regina, Saskatchewan was another potential site for the game, and the teams had secured the cooperation of the city and local sports promoter On Ice Management, but the Saskatchewan Roughriders vetoed the proposal, as the Roughriders feared they would be unable to reconfigure the field from NFL to CFL standards in time for their August 24 home game[43] (the Winnipeg Blue Bombers were away that weekend and thus did not have a scheduling conflict).

Apply division tie breaker to eliminate all but the highest ranked club in each division prior to proceeding to step 2. Chicago is ahead of Dallas based on head to head (1-0).

[165], Gase, who was previously the head coach of the Miami Dolphins, posting a 23–25 (.479) record in three seasons, was hired on January 11, 2019.

NBC airs Sunday Night Football, the annual Kickoff Game, and the primetime Thanksgiving game. ET (as is already the case with the conference championship games), rather than the typical 1:00 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. windows used for this round in previous seasons.[73].

AFC West vs NFC North. The Bengals never won a playoff game under Lewis and had missed the playoffs in each of his last three seasons. Not a whole lot.

[78] That same day, Pittsburgh-based Dr. Victor Prisk, who worked with Brown during his time with the Steelers, sued Brown for $11,500 in unpaid fees. Allow teams to enforce a personal foul or unsportsmanlike conduct penalty committed during a touchdown on either the try or on the ensuing kickoff. These winners are joined by two teams called wildcard teams, who qualify based on the win-loss records of the remaining teams in each conference that didn’t finish first in their respective divisions. [53] The Bengals still held a training camp day in Dayton, doing so at Welcome Stadium instead. A longtime defensive assistant in the NFL, his only head coaching experience was as the Buffalo Bills interim head coach for the last 7 games of the 2009 season. The NFL playoffs are not based on a pure bracket system.