–Now that the NFL has added two more teams to the playoffs and is staging six wild card games on Wild Card weekend, it has promoted it as Super Wild Card weekend. Unfortunately, it was anything but super last weekend. Five of the six games were decidec by double digits and five of the home teams won.
–The big news of the weekend was the Cowboys losing at home to the Packers but it shouldn’t have been a surprise. The Cowboys have a history of losing in the playoffs the last 28 years since they won the Super Bowl in 1995 and Jerry Jones refuses to accept the fact he is the problem and needs to hire a general manger because he wants to be in charge.
–It was also not a surprise that Miami lost to Kansas City in freezing weather. As a cold weather team the Dolphins aren’t good at coping with bad weather and this year they had problems against good teams. The Chiefs were up and down this year but still had the home field edge.
–The best game of the weekend was the Lions beating the Rams by a point. The Lions have become a popular team because their fans have endured decades of losing.
— Houston’s easy win over Cleveland showed C.J. Stroud is on the cusp of being an elite quarterback and the Browns had gone as far as they could with their fourth quarterback. The Bills win over the Steelers was no surprise as the Steelers are not a playoff caliber team and the Eagles losing to the Bucs wasn’t really a surprise because they lost five of their last six regular season games after starting out 10-1.
–Now the Ravens and 49ers, the two top seeds, make their playoff debuts this weekend, against the Texans and Packers and if they win, they will both advance to the conference championship round.
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