The Houston Texans and the Baltimore Ravens are moving on to the divisional round of the NFL playoffs after dominating victories.

The Houston Texans and Baltimore Ravens are moving on to the next round of the NFL playoffs after dominating performances on Saturday.

The Texans beat the Los Angeles Chargers 32-12. Despite a slow start and struggle to move the ball in the first quarter, the Texans scored all 32 points in the last three quarters compared to the Chargers, who scored just six after the first quarter.

The wild-card winners turned the game on a fluke play in the second quarter after showing little to nothing on offense.

With the score 6-0 LA, standout quarterback CJ Stroud took a third-and-forever and turned it into a first down that sparked a dominating victory. He gathered a botched snap and somehow found an all-alone Xavier Hutchinson in the middle of the field for a huge 34-yard gain. The play put the Texans on the 49-yard line. Following that play, Stroud went 13-17 for 199 yards and a touchdown for the rest of the game. His TD toss went to Nico Collins to finish the 99-yard drive that “started” with Hutchinson’s catch.

The Chargers started strong but failed to maintain their early 6-0 advantage. The start was impressive considering all that is happening back home in Los Angeles with wildfires impacting the LA area.

The Ravens meanwhile powered through the Steelers, jetting out to a 21-0 lead at halftime and never looking back even as their AFC North rival put some points on the board in the second half.

Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henry starred as the Ravens’ rushing attack simply overpowered the Pittsburgh defense. The tone was set early when Jackson and Henry simply ran through, around and over the Steelers defense on a massive drive to start the game, going 95 yards to open the scoring.

Henry would end up with two touchdowns and Jackson would pass for two more. The sequence that best told the story was an 85-yard, 13-play drive in the second quarter that featured precisely zero passes. Jackson broke loose for a big 19-yard run that left him feeling some discomfort, but it didn’t seem to slow him down as he scrambled for gains on the next two plays before handing the ball off to Henry for another bruising run as the Ravens neared the red zone.

Henry pounded through the tackles one more time to get into the end zone, putting an exclamation point on a physically dominating drive. And when the Ravens wanted to move fast, they could do that too. Just before halftime, Jackson led his offense down the field in 1:51, punctuating an incredible first half with a third touchdown to put Baltimore up 21-0 going into the break.

The Steelers looked a bit more lively coming out of the locker room, stopping Baltimore on their first drive before getting on the board for the first time with a 30-yard pass from Russell Wilson to wide receiver Van Jefferson.

It was the first sign of life for Pittsburgh, and the Ravens looked to stamp it out immediately on the following drive. Returning to the run game, Henry found a seam in the Pittsburgh defense and took a 44-yard run to the house that seemed to put Baltimore on easy street.

Wilson wasn’t going away though. Having found success going over the top of the Ravens defense on the Steelers’ first drive of the second half, Wilson went back to that strategy and connected with wideout George Pickens for another long touchdown, this time for 36 yards making the score 28-14. The Steelers held the Ravens to their first three-and-out of the game on the next drive and suddenly Pittsburgh looked back in business.

But the Ravens defense stiffened at the right time, sacking Wilson with defensive tackle Nnamdi Madubuike delivering a crunching sack on a third-down play to force a punt as the third quarter came to an end. The Steelers never really threatened again and are now riding a six-game losing streak in the playoffs.

After the game, Henry heaped praise on the Ravens’ quarterback while speaking on Prime’s postgame show.

“He does it every week so it’s no shock to us. We don’t think it should be a shock to anybody. He does it week in and week out. Like I said earlier this week, best player in the league so that’s what’s expected.”