The Post’s NFL expert makes his 2023 playoffs, Super Bowl predictions

The Serby Crystal Ball (TSCB) again from the restore store, has hardly ever seen issues this clearly. The AFC West is loaded, the NFC nonetheless homes Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers … however no workforce lit up TSCB the way in which our subsequent Tremendous Bowl champion did. 

The Street to Glendale, Ariz., and Tremendous Bowl 57 

AFC Playoffs 

Wild Card 

Colts 28, Patriots 22: Matty Ice finds Michael Pittman Jr. and Nyheim Hines with TD passes and Jonathan Taylor runs one in, at which level it's 28-3, similar because it was in Tremendous Bowl 51, and he's stricken with horror. However Kenny Moore ends a late drive by intercepting Mac Jones and Invoice Belichick goes house once more with out the Lombardi. 

Chargers 31, Ravens 23: Lamar Jackson presses to sustain with Justin Herbert largely as a result of Derwin James throttles TE Mark Andrews. As a result of Marlon Humphrey is ready to include Keenan Allen, Herbert does most of his injury with checkdowns to RB Austin Ekeler towards a heavy move rush and a red-zone TD move to Mike Williams. 

Raiders 37, Chiefs 34: Maybe if Patrick Mahomes nonetheless had Tyreek Hill he may have received this shootout. However he doesn’t, and Derek Carr has his outdated school pal Davante Adams alongside Hunter Renfrow and Darren Waller. 

Davante Adams
Davante Adams can be reunited together with his school teammate, QB Derek Carr.
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Divisional Spherical 

Payments 31, Raiders 24: An arctic low settles over the visiting sideline, and the wondrous Josh Allen is ready to escape the relentless clutches of Chandler Jones and Maxx Crosby to search out each Stefon Diggs and Gabe Davis for a pair of TD bombs to the delight of Payments Mafia. 

Chargers 30, Colts 24: Taylor gashes Brandon Staley’s susceptible run protection to maintain Herbert off the sphere for lengthy stretches, and Yannick Ngakoue pressures Herbert right into a Stephon Gilmore pick-six. However Khalil Mack strip-sacks Matty Ice, and Herbert targets Joshua Palmer previous CB Brandon Facyson for the solar-plexus blow that cinches it. 

AFC Championship Sport 

Payments 34, Chargers 27 (OT) 

The climate forecast proves to be a distraction as a result of Chargers gamers are pressured to reply why they received’t be psyched out the way in which the 1981 workforce was taking part in in The Freezer Bowl in Cincinnati. J.C. Jackson silences the gang with a first-quarter choose and Allen is pressured to steer a last-minute tying drive, largely do to his rampaging legs. Micah Hyde wins the OT coin toss and Allen finds TE Dawson Knox in the long run zone. With Herbert driving to tie the sport, Gregory Rousseau sacks him on fourth down. 

Aaron Rodgers
Regardless of a current historical past of playoff struggles, Aaron Rodgers could lead the Packers to postseason run.
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NFC Playoffs 

Wild Card 

Packers 32, Bucs 27: Rashan Gary overwhelms Tom Brady’s offensive line and Aaron Rodgers targets Aaron Jones again and again out of the backfield with A.J. Dillon the goal-line hammer. Brady, in what is going to show to be his final recreation earlier than leaping into the Fox sales space, throws a disastrous interception within the fourth quarter to Jaire Alexander. 

Saints 27, Rams 24: Jalen Ramsey’s pick-six unsettles Jamies Winston, however a sturdy offensive line prevents Aaron Donald from wrecking the sport. Matthew Stafford’s elbow is limiting him to quick, fast passes to Cooper Kupp and Allen Robinson. Bobby Wagner retains Alvin Kamara at bay earlier than Winston’s home-run bomb to Chris Olave wins it. 

49ers 28, Vikings 27: Fred Warner controls Dalvin Cook dinner sufficient to place the big-game strain on Kirk Cousins. Trey Lance rushes for 114 yards and throws a dagger TD move to TE George Kittle, and Justin Jefferson’s fourth-quarter TD catch is just too little, too late. 

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Divisional Spherical 

49ers 33, Eagles 24: Each Lance and Jalen Hurts rush for over 100 yards and a TD. Charvarius Ward breaks up a fourth-quarter, fourth-down move in the long run zone for A.J. Brown and Deebo Samuel imposes his will on the sport in crunch time. 

Packers 27, Saints 21: A snowstorm blankets the frozen tundra at Lambeau Subject. Demario Davis hounds Jones and Dillon, however Rodgers and Romeo Doubs torch Marcus Maye deep in protection, and Preston Smith performs the function of nearer by sacking Taysom Hill on fourth-and-goal. 

NFC Championship Sport 

49ers 26, Packers 24: A rematch of the Niners’ 13-10 win at Lambeau within the 2021 Divisional Spherical. Kyle Shanahan’s offense is extra explosive with Lance on the controls, gashing the Pack together with his legs and utilizing Samuel and Kittle as decoys whereas concentrating on Brandon Aiyuk early and infrequently. 

Josh Allen
Josh Allen and the Payments are Steve Serby’s Tremendous Bowl 2023 champions.
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Tremendous Bowl 57 

Payments 30, 49ers 27: The strain to shed the Tremendous Bowl monkey off the franchise’s again seems to debilitate the Payments early when Nick Bosa strip-sacks Allen and Warner takes the fumble for the primary rating. However OC Ken Dorsey remembers how former OC Brian Daboll used Isaiah McKenzie, and a jet sweep ties the rating earlier than Allen whistles a brief TD move to Jamison Crowder and a Tre’Davious White pick-six elicits hi-fives within the suites amongst Marv Levy, Jim Kelly and Bruce Smith. However Lance isn’t Jimmy G within the fourth quarter and he ties the sport with a seam path to Kittle. However then Allen and Devin Singletary matriculate the ball into place for a 47-yard subject objective for Tyler Bass. It begins Vast Proper … however then the soccer gods, who've been so merciless to Buffalo, make certain the ball swerves contained in the uprights, and the scoreboard reveals :00, and the rooster wings are flying off the menus at Bar Invoice Tavern and Duff’s and Anchor Bar — compliments of Scott Norwood! Champions eventually.

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