Viewer audiences for the first weekend of the NFL playoffs were down 9.3% from last year, a bigger decline than what the ...

That’s down 13 percent from the Monday night wild card game last year (29.18 million). Jan. 15, 8:30 a.m. Updated with ratings figures for the CBS and ABC/ESPN games.

The NFL playoff picture is complete. Here's how the AFC and NFC fields ended up after Week 18, with the wild-card round up next.

Washington's 23-20 Sunday night comeback win over Tampa Bay — the most competitive game of the wild-card round — averaged 26.2 million on NBC. That was down 19% from last year's Rams-Lions game.

The game as a whole, however, fell a little shy of last ... night window. Netflix’s Christmas games earlier this season each topped 24 million viewers. Fox had the biggest audience for the wild ...