{"id":1793,"date":"2026-01-18T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron-elementor\/divisional-hou-at-ne-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T18:10:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T23:10:00","slug":"divisional-hou-at-ne-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron-elementor\/divisional-hou-at-ne-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Divisional round: Patriots see off Texans 28-16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New England Patriots are into the conference championship round. They beat Houston Texans 28-16 at Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, MA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quarter by quarter it went 3-7-6-0 for Texans against 7-14-0-7 for Patriots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Patriots carried a 14-3 regular season and a point differential of +170 into January. Texans were 12-5 with +109.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch the hash marks. Formation into the boundary changed the leverage on the outside receivers and the safety help never rotated in time, which is how a good secondary gives up a bad afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Houston Texans finish the season here. DeMeco Ryans will take a roster back to work with the bracket experience banked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New England Patriots move into the conference championship after a 28-16 win over Houston Texans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":3128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[55,48,50,57],"class_list":["post-1793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-report","tag-divisional","tag-patriots","tag-playoffs","tag-texans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron-elementor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}