For the second straight season, the Jets have won consecutive
road playoff games and find themselves playing for the AFC Championship.
While Hellebuyck has been stellar at home, his record on the road is suspect (14 - 13 SU in 27 starts) and the Jets may need to outscore the Wild if they plan to obtain their first
road playoff win in franchise history.
The win was the Raptors» first
road playoff victory since 2001, and the fans in Toronto were ecstatic:
Tatum gets a pass, as a rookie in his
first road playoff game ever, he played ok in the 3rd and 4th.
We then took it a step further and found that
road playoff teams coming off a 1, 2, or 3 - game losing streak have gone 97 - 104 since the 2007 postseason, good for +26.45 units won and an ROI of +13.2 %.
The Ravens are one of two teams with a winning playoff road record at 10 - 5 while quarterback Joe Flacco holds the record with seven
road playoff wins and he will arrive off the back of an impressive performance against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
To quote my idiot self, I wrote that Marcus Mariota «is an average quarterback at best» and that «he's not a guy you can expect to go into
a road playoff game and actually play well enough to win.»
I expected Mariota, who has never really done much to prove otherwise, to become extra shaky in
a road playoff game, especially against a turnover - hungry defense and in one of the loudest stadiums in the league.
he just lead them to
a road playoff victory.
With Baltimore's win over New England, Flacco broke Eli Manning's playoff record for
road playoff wins, improving to 6 - 4 in road playoff games.
In both games, the Wizards dominated the glass, and those extra possessions proved invaluable considering the difficulty that lies in winning two
road playoff games in a row.
If we go down 0 - 1 in Indiana, we have to win
a road playoff game to avoid 0 - 2 which actually is a historically very difficult hole to climb out of.