Audibles at the Line

The Falcons lure yet another opponent into a false sense of anxiety, the 49ers squeeze an entire series of M*A*S*H into one road trip, and Seahawks-Patriots comes down to a single yard again.

Football is back, and so is Audibles! Your Audibles crew discusses the Week 1 Sunday action, featuring Cam Newton on the Patriots, Tom Brady on the Buccaneers, and Philip Rivers on the Colts.

The first game (official or otherwise) of the 2020 season was kind of a snoozer, with the Super Bowl champions coasting to an easy win. That gave us an opportunity to reflect on the DeAndre Hopkins and Brandin Cooks trades, changes in Houston's offensive philosophy, and the NFL debut of Clyde Edwards-Helaire.

The Raiders and Broncos go all in on offensive weapons. The Eagles pair Jalen Hurts with Carson Wentz. The Packers ... we have no idea what the Packers are doing.

After a predictable and quiet first start to the night, things went nuts late in the first round. The Packers traded up for their quarterback of the future, the Seahawks didn't trade down for the first time in years, and the 49ers traded up and down to make some surprising selections.

Patrick Mahomes overcomes some early struggles to rally the Chiefs to a 31-20 win and a Lombardi Trophy, but did he deserve the MVP? What were the turning points in the game? And who takes the blame for San Francisco's fourth-quarter collapse?

The first half of the AFC Championship Game is a competitive, hard-fought game of football. The remaining six quarters of the weekend ... aren't.

The two conferences could hardly contrast more on Divisional Weekend. Both NFC games go entirely according to the script. The AFC, usually the more predictable conference, gives us another two crazy games.

Another trio of road victories, a possible epoch-ending defeat, and the first-ever wild-card round with two overtime games! A new decade heralds a very different postseason.

San Francisco wins in Seattle to determine the last of the NFC seeding. Every other team in a win-to-clinch scenario comes through, apart from one very, very surprising exception.