Bills and Eagles hold on to reach NFL Conference Championships

The Buffalo Bills and Philadelphia Eagles held connected to clinch nail-biting victories connected Sunday and determination wrong 1 triumph of the Super Bowl.

The Bills won 27-25 successful a much-anticipated crippled with the Baltimore Ravens aft the Eagles clinched a 28-22 triumph implicit the Los Angeles Rams.

Both games were played successful snow, with Baltimore's travel to Buffalo seeing quarterbacks Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson, the starring contenders to beryllium named this season's Most Valuable Player, spell head-to-head.

And it was Allen who came retired connected apical arsenic the Bills acceptable up different post-season match-up with the Kansas City Chiefs, the two-time defending champions, for a spot successful Super Bowl 59.

It was an agonising extremity to the play for Baltimore arsenic choky extremity Mark Andrews dropped a two-point conversion that would person tied the crippled with 1:33 remaining.

Jackson won his 2nd MVP grant past play - and could good gain different erstwhile the victor is announced during Super Bowl week – yet 7 years into his career, the NFL's biggest crippled continues to elude him.

Not lone is the 28-year-old inactive to scope the Super Bowl but helium has lone played successful 1 AFC Championship game, losing to the Chiefs past season.

Instead, this twelvemonth Kansas City volition big Buffalo successful the AFC Championship crippled adjacent Sunday, portion Philadelphia volition invited the Washington Commanders successful the NFC Championship crippled adjacent Sunday.

Eagles moving backmost Saquon Barkley whitethorn person had 2,005 rushing yards this play to spell eighth connected the all-time list, but it was his backmost Jalen Hurts who made the archetypal burst successful Philly against the Rams, scoring a 44-yard touchdown connected the opening thrust - the longest tally of his career.

Los Angeles replied with a Tyler Higbee touchdown, earlier Barkley broke done for a 62-yard score.

The Rams kicked a tract extremity to chopped the half-time shortage to 13-10 and, arsenic the snowfall got heavier aft the interval, some teams settled for a tract extremity successful the 3rd quarter.

Hurts injured his genu connected that Eagles drive, and connected their adjacent possession helium was trapped successful his ain extremity portion for a safety, cutting the people to 16-15.

The Rams past fumbled connected successive drives, with the Eagles punishing each mistake with a tract goal, and the crippled appeared to beryllium implicit aft Barkley raced wide again, this clip from 72 yards to marque it 28-15 with nether 5 minutes left.

However, Los Angeles deed consecutive backmost with a Colby Parkinson touchdown and past forced a swift three-and-out from the Eagles, meaning they got the shot backmost with conscionable implicit 2 minutes left.

Veteran backmost Matthew Stafford, who led the Rams to Super Bowl glory successful 2022, has produced 51 game-winning drives and seemed acceptable for different erstwhile Puka Nacua made a superb drawback connected his enarthrosis to instrumentality the Rams to Philly's 21-yard line.

But the Eagles defence stood steadfast to guarantee they reached their 2nd NFC Championship crippled successful 3 years, having yet mislaid to Kansas City successful Super Bowl 57.