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The Athletic has dwell protection of Chiefs vs Dolphins within the AFC wild card matchup.
The Miami Dolphins (11-6) and Kansas City Chiefs (11-6) have matched up 32 instances, together with three playoff showdowns, however none have fairly formed as much as be like Saturday’s. Because it stands, the matchup might probably be one of many coldest games in NFL history.
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Whereas the franchises’ sequence is tied at 16-16 all-time, the Chiefs have gained the the final 4 video games courting again to Sept. 21, 2014. The Dolphins’ final win got here on Nov. 6, 2011. In different phrases, Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce have but to lose to Miami since getting into within the league.
Kansas Metropolis has made three Tremendous Bowl appearances within the final 4 seasons, successful twice (in 2020 and 2023). Miami, alternatively, has misplaced within the wild-card spherical in every of its final 4 postseason showings (2002, 2009, 2017, 2023). They made it to the divisional spherical in 2001, however misplaced to the Oakland Raiders.
This yr, the Chiefs went 7-2 previous to their Week 10 bye earlier than ending the season 4-4. The Dolphins, who additionally had a Week 10 bye, began the primary half of their season 6-3 earlier than ending 5-3.
The sport will kickoff at 8 p.m. ET from GEHA Area at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas Metropolis, Mo. Followers who can’t attend the sport, can watch on Peacock.
Can sports activities result in long-term subscriber development for a streaming product? That’s the guess loads of streamers have made and the principle cause why Peacock paid the NFL $110 million to air the first-ever unique, live-streamed NFL playoff sport. Peacock presently has 30 million subscribers and a bunch of sports activities properties. What number of subs this particular sport drives will one thing each Peacock and the NFL research intently. Peacock presently lose cash, as is the case with most streaming entities. Comcast president Mike Cavanagh mentioned final month the platform would hit $2.8 billion in losses in 2023. The hope is $2.8 billion represents peak losses. Rick Cordella, the president of NBC Sports activities, who additionally oversees sports activities on Peacock, mentioned in an interview he’ll choose success first on the standard of manufacturing and if the technological distribution is clean and clear.
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“Then you definately get into a number of the metrics so far as what number of subs does it drive, what number of new subscribers will we have now, did we meet our personal inside site visitors objectives, did we repay our promoting companions,” Cordella mentioned. “I believe the general story shall be advised months down the street. How many individuals churned out after one month and what number of people stayed and watched different content material on Peacock. It might not be a Sunday morning pass-fail grade. Months down the street did this have the meant consequence of constructing the Peacock platform That’s how we’re going to view it.” — Richard Deitsch, media reporter
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