NFL officials were heavily scrutinized for some of the flags they threw in the four divisional round games that saw the Chiefs, Bills, Eagles and Commanders advance to next weekend's conference championships.

There isn’t officially a flopping penalty in the NFL rulebook. However, penalties for flops have been called before under the definition of unsportsmanlike conduct.

The NFL stood by the officiating in the Chiefs’ 23-14 win over the Texans in their Divisional Round playoff game on Saturday. NFL senior VP of officiating Walt Anderson addressed multiple penalties against the Texans for unnecessary roughness and roughing the passer on Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes following uproar over the officiating,

Patrick Mahomes will get a chance to make history as the first NFL quarterback to ever win three Super Bowls in a row. Josh Allen will get the chance to beat the Kansas City Chiefs in the playoffs for the first time in four tries and bring his Buffalo Bills back to the Super Bowl for the first time since 1994.

It's hard to bet against Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs, but everything is aligning for this to be Bills QB Josh Allen's moment. Here's why.

L.A. Times NFL writer Sam Farmer analyzes the conference championships between the Eagles-Commanders in the NFC and Bills-Chiefs in the AFC.