Commanders & Eagles win while Bills set up Ravens showdown

The Washington Commanders and Philadelphia Eagles won successful the NFL play-offs connected Sunday portion the Buffalo Bills acceptable up a mouth-watering match-up successful week two.

The Commanders clinched a thrilling 23-20 triumph astatine the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, with Zane Gonzalez kicking a tract extremity arsenic clip expired.

The Bills claimed a mostly ascendant 31-7 triumph implicit the Denver Broncos earlier the Philadelphia Eagles won 22-10 successful a brutal conflict with the Green Bay Packers.

Buffalo's Josh Allen threw for 272 yards and 2 touchdowns and James Cook ran for 120 yards and a people during a punishing rushing show from the Bills.

Buffalo's triumph means they big the Baltimore Ravens adjacent week, erstwhile Allen volition spell head-to-head with Lamar Jackson, his main rival for this season's MVP award.

Wildcard Weekend concludes connected Monday arsenic the Los Angeles Rams look the Minnesota Vikings to determine the last spot successful the Divisional Round.

Washington had not won a play-off crippled since 2005 and had not finished the play with a winning grounds since 2016.

But rookie backmost Jayden Daniels helped alteration them into 1 of this season's highest scorers, on with the Buccaneers.

The Commanders person made a wont of claiming precocious victories this play and it continued successful Tampa Bay.

The people was tied 10-10 astatine half-time, with Dyami Brown's touchdown for Washington cancelled retired by a Mike Evans people close earlier the half,

Gonzalez edged the Commanders backmost successful front, lone for Bucky Irving's touchdown to assistance the Bucs into a 17-13 pb precocious successful the 3rd quarter.

The Bucs' defence made a large halt to triumph backmost possession but, connected their adjacent drive, a Mayfield fumble, recovered by Washington's Bobby Wagner, allowed the Commanders to spell 20-17 up successful the last quarter.

Chase McLaughlin's 2nd tract extremity for Tampa Bay made it 20-20 with little than 5 minutes left, earlier Washington acceptable up a 37-yard effort for Gonzalez, which bounced done disconnected a post.

Denver's past play-off crippled came successful Super Bowl 50 successful February 2016 successful what was NFL fable Peyton Manning's past lucifer - and the pursuing eight-season drought was the second-longest successful the league.

Rookie backmost Bo Nix could good beryllium the reply and helium stunned an expectant Bills assemblage successful Buffalo by launching a 43-yard touchdown walk to Troy Franklin connected conscionable the 5th play of the game.

Wil Lutz hitting the station with a field-goal effort connected the changeable of half-time was arsenic adjacent arsenic they came to adding much points, though, and the unit told successful the 2nd fractional arsenic Buffalo's other prime saw them tally distant with it.

Allen produced a dazzling touchdown propulsion to Ty Johnson connected a 4th down successful the 3rd 4th that proved the tipping constituent for Denver's worn-out defence, and a 55-yard touchdown drawback and tally from Curtis Samuel added the finishing touches.

Buffalo's 210-yard rushing show included immoderate important runs from Allen, who is the undoubted prima of a squad hopeless to triumph their archetypal Super Bowl - and conscionable get backmost to the large crippled for the archetypal clip since losing their 4th successful a enactment successful 1994.

MVP chants rang retired astir Highmark Stadium for Allen and those fans volition witnesser the 2 favourites for this year's grant spell astatine it adjacent week.

The Ravens hammered the Bills 35-10 successful Baltimore earlier this play erstwhile Buffalo had nary reply for Jackson oregon Derrick Henry - the rematch volition find who moves 1 crippled distant from the Super Bowl.

Green Bay should person known it was not their nighttime erstwhile they fumbled the opening kick-off, allowing Jalen Hurts to propulsion a touchdown walk to Jahan Dotson conscionable 3 plays later.

And it did not get overmuch amended for the Packers as, contempt their defence playing good successful an arm-wrestle of a game, untimely penalties, injuries, a missed tract extremity and 3 interceptions from backmost Jordan Love sealed their feat.

Only occasional attacking moments punctuated wide antiaircraft dominance connected some sides - Dallas Goedert's muscular 24-yard touchdown was the item for Philadelphia.

Hurts looked rusty aft lone conscionable returning from concussion, arsenic Saquon Barkley carried the Eagles onslaught again with 119 yards rushing, but Philadelphia could person been successful heavy occupation had Green Bay not continually changeable themselves successful the foot, committing 4 turnovers.

They could bash thing astir apical wide receivers Romeo Doubs and Jayden Reed being conscionable 2 of galore injuries they picked up, leaving moving backmost Josh Jacobs to pb the complaint with his touchdown and 121-yard show concisely giving the Packers hope.

Philadelphia saw it retired though to advance, but they volition request to earnestly amended connected offence heading into adjacent week's Divisional Round.

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