The Jacksonville Jaguars will host the Buffalo Bills in the Wild Card round of the 2025 NFL Playoffs. The game will be broadcast on CBS and will kick off the Sunday slate of three games, as part of the six total games played across three days in the first round of this year’s playoffs.
It’s the only game that CBS is carrying this weekend, which provides a clear indication of the announcers who will comprise the broadcasting team. Their top team will handle the duties while the rest of their staff has the weekend off.
Why Did CBS Assign Jim Nantz and Tony Romo to Bills vs. Jaguars?
The broadcast for the NFL Playoff game between the Bills and Jaguars in the Wild Card round will feature their top team on the call. Jim Nantz will serve as the play-by-play announcer, with his analyst Tony Romo joining him in the booth, and Tracy Wolfson as the sideline reporter.
This is always their preferred broadcast team for each week of the season, so they receive the “best” game from each weekly slate that CBS carries. For this year’s Wild Card round, the only game airing on CBS was an easy assignment that required no debate on which of their games would be assigned to the top broadcast team.
Nantz and Romo, along with Wolfson, have an intriguing AFC matchup to guide the fans through in Jacksonville for a playoff game. The Jags won the AFC South this year, while Buffalo finished as a Wild Card team, after the New England Patriots won the AFC East division. This situation made the Jaguars the host as the three-seed against the sixth-seeded Bills.
All eyes will be on the two quarterbacks, including defending NFL MVP Josh Allen and rising superstar Trevor Lawrence. Allen finished the year ranked third in PFSN’s Impact Rankings among all quarterbacks, while Lawrence finished No. 16, but the Jaguars’ leader has been on fire lately. He has finished among the top 12 in the weekly rankings in each of his past five games, while also winning each of his past eight games overall.
Both quarterbacks likely enter the contest with confidence in what should be a competitive game between two teams hopeful of making a Super Bowl run. Whoever advances will have a strong chance of doing precisely that as they navigate a conference that feels wide open this year.
