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the season. San Francisco is a 3-point favorite.
• "They're different as well," Rodgers said. "They're a great defense. Very talented offense as well. It's going to be a very tough challenge for us."
• Texans 19, Bengals 13

• Foster gained 140 yards, becoming the first player with at least 100 yards rushing in his first three postseason games. He scored on a 1-yard run and also had eight receptions.
• "It only takes one week to turn things around in the NFL and we did that," said Foster, whose team lost to Minnesota and Indianapolis to slip to the AFC's third seed.
• Cincinnati (10-7) gained only 198 yards and had 12 first downs. Its touchdown came on Leon Hall's interception return.
• "It's hard to put it into words," Hall said. "It's disappointing. I mean, we had a good year, but it didn't end how we wanted it to and how we planned it to. At the end

of the day, they made the plays that won the game for them."
• With a second straight wild-card loss in Houston, the Bengals extended one of the NFL's longest playoff droughts. They haven't won a postseason game since the 1990 season.
• They got two field goals from Josh Brown, and Andy Dalton overthrew an open A.J. Green in the end zone late in the fourth quarter.
• Along with Foster's touchdown, the Texans got four field goals from Shayne Graham.
• Colts (11-5) at Ravens (10-6)
• From Ray Lewis' pending retirement to Chuck Pagano's return to Baltimore to the history of these two franchises, this game has all kinds of intriguing story lines.
• Lewis announced this week he will end his 17-year career as one of the NFL's premier players, let alone linebackers, after the playoffs. He's hoping for a long run duplicating the 2000 season, when he was Defensive Player of the Year and Super Bowl MVP.
• "That moment I walk out of that tunnel Sunday, every person that was a Ravens fan -- 1996 to this day -- we will all enjoy that moment," he said. "It will probably be one of the glorious moments in my life."
• Pagano spent four seasons coaching defense in Baltimore, then landed the head coaching job in Indy. He missed 12 games while undergoing treatments for leukemia and came back last week in a win over Houston.
• Now he's back in Baltimore.
• And he knows all about the history of the Colts leaving for Indianapolis in May

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