The NFL is officially down to its final four teams, and by Sunday night, we’ll know which two teams will be heading to Arizona to battle it out in Super Bowl LVII.
After a divisional round that didn’t provide much excitement, we could be in for a wild Sunday. Both games this week currently have a point spread of under three points and if things stay that way, it would mark just the third time ever that both conference championship games have a spread that small (The other two times it happened came in 1982 and 1997).
In the NFC, things went exactly as expected with the top-two seeds advancing to the conference title game. At the top, we have the Eagles, who will be hosting the second-seeded 49ers in the early game on Sunday. In the AFC, the top-seeded Chiefs will be hosting a Bengals team that made it to the conference title round by destroying the second-seeded Bills, 27-10.
Although the playoffs can be nearly impossible to predict, we’re going to try to do that anyway by making four bold predictions for Sunday. Here’s how things are going to work: Since there are two games on the schedule for Sunday, we’ll be making one bold prediction for each team that’s playing.
Remember, these are bold predictions only. If you’re looking for actual game picks, feel free to click here.
With that in mind, let’s get to the bold predictions.
Bengals bold prediction: Cincinnati has two 100-yard receivers
This might not seem that bold, but it is when you consider that the Bengals only had ONE game during the 2022 season where they had multiple players hit 100 receiving yards (That came during a 35-17 win over the Falcons in Week 7). They’ve never done it in their postseason history and they’ve only done it TWICE ever since drafting Joe Burrow (and that includes the Week 7 game against Atlanta).
When the Bengals faced the Chiefs back in December, they didn’t have a single receiver hit the 100-yard mark. Ja’Marr Chase came the closest (seven catches for 97 yards), but no other player finished with more than 60 yards receiving.
Chiefs bold prediction: Mahomes throws zero TD passes
There wasn’t a single game during the 2022 season where Mahomes finished with zero touchdown passes, but it’s not out of the realm of possibility for Sunday due to his ankle injury. Mahomes might look fine in practice, but there’s no guarantee his ankle is going to hold up once he’s running…
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