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Happy Monday, everyone! It's Zach Pereles back to deliver the news from a weekend.Let's get right to it.THE SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS. Josh Allen Jersey ..Want to know how to make the NFC Championship with a seventh-round rookie quarterback? Build an unparalleled roster with star power and depth everywhere.Just look at what the,who are on the way to to their third NFC Championship in four seasons with over the , have done:Add  to an already-terrific rushing attack, and don't limit him to just running back. McCaffrey scored the game-winning rushing touchdown. It was his eighth straight game with a score -- the longest streak by a 49er since Terrell Owens in 1998. He also had a team-high six catches.Make sure there's a great supporting cast: not just McCaffrey, but  (five catches, 95 yards), , ,  and all-world left tackle .Invest in playmakers on defense -- former first-round defensive linemen  and , for instance -- and identify and develop young talent: (3rd round, 2018) (5th round, 2019) and (undrafted, 2019) form the NFL's best linebacker group, and  (5th round, 2021) is the do-everything safety every team would love to have.I could go on and on about the terrific job Kyle Shanahan and defensive coordinator  do with the outstanding rostersJohn Lynchbuilds. But I won't. Over the last four seasons, only the have won more playoff games than the 49ers.  Two more wins and San Francisco will have the one thing mi sing from their recent playoff runs: a Super Bowl.... AND ALSO A GOOD MORNING TO THE Statement made. The Bengals . Led by stars ,  and  and a ferocious, smart defense, Cincinnati over the .Don't let "only" 27 points fool you.The Bengals only had seven full po se sions and scored on five of them. That included Burrow pa sing touchdowns to Chase and  on Cincinnati's first two drives.   Burrow is now 5-1 in the postseason, including 3-0 on the road.Mixon had postseason career-highs with 105 rushing yards and 123 scrimmage yards.Not including a kneeldown, the Bengals had just two plays for negative yards, tied for their fewest in a game under Burrow.The defense was also outstanding -- we'll get into that more in a bit -- but it started (and ended) with severely limiting  as a pa ser and runner and holding his favorite target, , in check.Combine a rock-solid defense with Burrow's terrific offense and , writes Cody Benjamin.Honorable mentionsLeBron James .Jon Rahm .THE DALLAS COWBOYSThe more things change, the more things stay the same. For the 12th consecutive playoff trip and 27th consecutive season, the Cowboys Kent Hull Jersey  will not make the NFC Championship. The reasons... well... you've heard them before.  After a magnificent Wild Card round, threw a pair of interceptions. He never posted consecutive interception-free games  Star Lotulelei Jersey this season.Outside of , the Cowboys severely lacked playmakers, especially after  .Oh,  .Mike McCarthyhad several head-scratching decisions... but .Here's more. Cowboys fans, hide your eyes:... AND ALSO NOT SUCH A GOOD MORNING FOR THE BUFFALO BILLSThe Bills entered this season as Super Bowl favorites. That team never showed up Sunday. Instead, they were overpowered on both sides of the ball in the lo s to the Bengals. It was Buffalo's largest lo s and fewest points scored this season.It's the type of lo s that, frankly, exposed several holes in Buffalo's roster.Going up against a reshuffled Cincinnati offensive line, the Bills allowed 172 yards on the ground, their fourth-most all season, and a season-worst 2.6 yards per carry before even making first contact. Buffalo was blown off the ball time and time again against a team that ranked 29th in both rushing yards and yards per rush this season. The Bills also recorded just one sack.On the other side, Buffalo ran 19 times for 63 yards -- a 3.3-yard average -- after ranking second in the NFL with 5.2 yards per rush during the regular season. led the way receiving with five receptions for 65 yards, but no other player topped 40 yards. Diggs (four receptions for 35 yards, his second-fewest this season) .'s midseason injury was a major factor in that first bullet point. He joined the Bills to help them this time of year, and his absence was notable. But the second two points were i sues going back to before the season began, often overlooked thanks to Allen's Superman-esque abilities.Ultimately, at home, in conditions Buffalo is no stranger to, the Bills got outplayed and outcoached, and Burrow far outshined Allen -- all on the biggest stage so far. The preseason Super Bowl favorites went out with a thud, and they have plenty of questions to answer.  Not so honorable mentionsEd Reed is out asBethune-Cookman's head coach .The Canucks  Bruce Boudreau.The No. 1 seeds in both the AFC and the NFC are into their respective conference championships. How they got there couldn Mario Addison Jersey 't have been more different.We'll start in the AFC, where the Chiefs nudged past the Jaguars, , despite superstar quarterback  . The injury happened in the first quarter, when Mahomes , with landing on Mahomes' lower leg. From there: () came in on the Chiefs' next po se sion and led a 12-play, 98-yard touchdown drive, culminating in his first career postseason touchdown pa s to  (who had two TD receptions on the day).Mahomes returned for the second half and ultimately finished the game with 195 pa sing yards and two touchdowns while clearly not even close to 100 percent. His fourth-quarter touchdown pa s to proved to be the game-winner.Mahomes . He's now the . To get back to the Super Bowl, though, , writes our Jared Dubin.The Eagles, meanwhile, entered with a banged-up quarterback Andre Reed Jersey  but cruised from there, topping the Giants, , behind an explosive running game and ferocious defense.  , and  each scored on the ground as part of a 268-yard rushing attack, and Hurts found  and  for touchdowns through the air.Philadelphia sacked five times, and former Giant  picked him off. Giants head coach Brian Daboll was , as was , after the lo s. is also slated to enter free agency.Here are .It's not easy being at the top. No. 1 Houston and No. 2 Kansas found that out the hard way, as both lost over the weekend. It was the first time ever the top two teams lost at home on back-to-back days.We'll start with the Cougars, who  to unranked Temple, with Tramon Mark mi sing a great chance right at the rim as time expired, emblematic of both teams' offensive struggles.The teams for just five points over the final five minutes. Houston shot under 34 percent (19-of-56) from the field and just 52 percent (11-of-21) on free throws.It was Temple's first win over an AP No. 1 team since 2000.While Ho
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