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"We played a clean football game and kept at it."
Emulating the 2010 Seattle Seahawks, Carolina (8-8-1) got its first playoff victory in nine years by holding Arizona to 78 yards in a 27-16 win. That was the lowest yield in a postseason game.
Fourth-year quarterback Cam Newton threw for 198 yards and two touchdowns for his first playoff victory, and Jonathan Stewart ran for 123 yards and a touchdown on a rain-soaked afternoon.
"You are called upon to win football games and we didn't do that," Lindley said.
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Ravens 30, Steelers 15
Flacco's seven road playoff wins are the most by a quarterback since the 1970 merger.
Visiting Arizona (11-6) started a series of laterals on the final play and lost 19 yards, making for the record.
"We're definitely familiar with playing up there, but that doesn't really mean anything," Flacco said of Gillette Stadium. "They're a good football team,
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Carolina won its final four regular-season games to take the NFC South. It now heads to either Seattle or Green Bay, depending on the outcome of the Detroit-Dallas game on Sunday.
At Pittsburgh, Flacco tossed two second-half touchdowns in the bitter AFC North rivalry. Flacco hit Torrey Smith for an 11-yard score in the third quarter and Crockett Gillmore with a 21-yard TD pass in the fourth period one play after Terrell Suggs picked off Ben Roethlisberger. The Ravens won in Pittsburgh for the first time in the postseason; Pittsburgh had been 9-0 in third games of a season against the same opponent.
"The big thing is we have a good team and we didn't hurt ourselves tonight," Flacco said. "We didn't have a lot of possessions early. We made the most of them by getting some kind of points.
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In their sixth trip in seven seasons with John Harbaugh as coach and Joe Flacco at quarterback, the Ravens beat archrival Pittsburgh 30-17 Saturday night in an AFC wild-card game. That sends Baltimore to New England, a place the Ravens twice have won in the postseason, including in the 2012 season when they won the Super Bowl.
Panthers 27, Cardinals 16
"We know who we are