Overview
- New England held Los Angeles to 207 yards at about 3.5 per play and logged six sacks in the wild-card victory.
- Milton Williams dropped Justin Herbert on 4th-and-9 inside two minutes to clinch it after an early goal-line fourth-down stand set the tone.
- The 16-3 result delivered the Patriots’ first postseason win since 2019 and set up a home divisional game next Sunday against the Steelers or Texans.
- A sideline celebration left Mike Vrabel with a bloody lip from Williams’ facemask, which both described as accidental and fueled by emotion.
- Vrabel credited linebackers coach Zak Kuhr for play-calling and urged the offense to curb turnovers after Drake Maye’s interception and lost fumble.