The first round of the NFL postseason begins this weekend with wild card playoffs in both the AFC and NFC conferences — but the reigns Super Bowl Champions don't play a game.
The Kansas City Chiefs have clinched the number one seed in the AFC Their Christmas 2024 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers.
“I thought it was a full team performance. The defense stepped up, the offense stepped up (and) everybody had their mark on the game,” the quarterback Patrick Mahomes told reporters after the game. “I told my pregnant wife (Brittany Mahomes) I was going to get the No. 1 seed, so we could have kids.”
The No. 1 seed does not have to play in the wild card game. (Meaning from the NFC, the Detroit Lions also have a bye week.) The other top seven teams in the conference will take the field, while the Chiefs and Lions have what is described as a hard-working day off. For Patrick, it's when His wife is about to give birth to their third child.
Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images In a season filled with lucky breaks for the Kansas City Chiefs, quarterback Patrick Mahomes got another one on the homefront. Mahomes, 29, revealed his wife, Brittany Mahomes, will give birth to the couple's third child on Sunday, Jan. 12, during Kansas City's playoff bye week. “He told me his (…)
The Chiefs will play the winner of one of the wild card games in a divisional playoff round later this month. The division winners ultimately face off in an attempt to advance to the conference championship, which of course determines the NFC and AFC teams that will play in the 2025 Super Bowl.
Super Bowl LIX will take place on Sunday, February 9 in New Orleans and the Chiefs are Hoping to make history and to win the third consecutive Lombardy trophy.
“Winning one is extremely difficult, winning two back to back like the Chiefs — as we know in the history of the game — is almost impossible,” retired quarterback Tom Brady said during a September 2024 Fox Sports broadcast. “Win three in a row? There is a reason why no one does. Putting all three of those together … with the last draft, a very tough schedule, all the turnover in free agency, guys continuing to be motivated, it's a big challenge.”
Ryan Kong/Getty Images Pregnant Brittany Mahomes may have skipped her husband Patrick Mahomes' Christmas Day football game, but she still found a way to praise the NFL quarterback on social media. “Always keeping his promises,” Brittany, 29, wrote via Instagram Stories on Wednesday, December 25, sharing a post from ESPN, where Patrick, (…)
Brady, 47, added, “Fortunately, they have a great coach Andy Reid (Who) never looks back. He's not going to say, 'Hey, because we were great last year, we're going to be great again this year.' He held those boys accountable. But winning everything back is an important task.”
Reid made the decision during last season's regular season and the divisional round Sit out a number of top starters With Patrick, 29, Travis KelceChris Jones And more backup quarterbacks Carson Wentz Beginning with a January 5 road game against the Denver Broncos that ended in a 38–0 loss to the Chiefs, the Cincinnati Bengals and Miami Dolphins were eliminated from the playoffs.