{"id":1822,"date":"2026-05-26T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/road-to-the-final-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T09:00:00","slug":"road-to-the-final-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/road-to-the-final-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"The road to the final, round by round"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2025 postseason ran to 13 knockout ties across four weekends, and the bracket page carries every one of them with the scores, the venues and the path each club took.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wild card weekend<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Six ties, six clubs out, and the top seed in each conference watching from home with a bye in hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Divisional round<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The round where the byes are cashed in or wasted. Home advantage is worth roughly two and a half points at this stage, and it decided at least one of these.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Special teams are the phase nobody writes about until they decide something, and then they are the only thing anyone writes about. This week they decided something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The final<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seattle Seahawks finished it. The rest of the league spends the summer working out how to stop the same thing happening again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen clubs went into the bracket and one came out. A walk back through the knockout rounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":3076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[103,50,47],"class_list":["post-1822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-long-reads","tag-bracket","tag-playoffs","tag-seahawks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}