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2017 NFL Wild Card Recap

By Rob Woodfork

WASHINGTON — NFL Wild Card Weekend can be summed up in two words: Home. Cooking.

A year after road teams swept the opening weekend of the playoffs, home teams have turned the table in historic fashion. Not only did the home teams go 4-0, but they won by a combined 76 points, which is the largest combined margin of victory since the playoff expansion of 1990. Let’s see what happened in each game.

Quarterback Alex Smith’s grueling road to recovery chronicled in ESPN program

By CNN
NFL quarterback Alex Smith suffered a gruesome leg injury that put his career in jeopardy and had him fighting for his life, and his long and grueling road to recovery is chronicled in an upcoming one-hour program from ESPN called "Project 11." The leg injury occurred Nov. 18, 2018, in the third quarter of a game between the Washington Redskins and Houston Texans. After being sacked by the Texans' J.J. Watt and Kareem Jackson, Smith suffered a spiral and compound fracture of the right tibia and fibula.
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