Starting around 4:30 this afternoon the "2017" National Football League playoffs begin with a wild card game between Tennessee and Kansas City, followed at 8 by Atlanta and the Los Angeles Rams. The Chiefs and Rams get to play at home since they are division winners, as are the Jacksonville against Buffalo and New Orleans against Carolina in tomorrow's contests. The lowest seeded wild card round winner will travel to New England the following week and the highest to Pittsburgh, the winners of those games to play for the AFC Championship and a ticket to the Super Bowl. Likewise, in the NFC Minnesota will host the high seed wild card winner and Philadelphia the low seed. All in all, so far the twelve teams that made the playoffs are patting themselves on the back amid fan approval, but the four that make a quick exit this weekend will soon be scratching their heads and taking in fan criticism, human nature being what it is. Ultimately, of course, only the Super Bowl winner will be able to escape hindsight misgivings and speculation about what might have been...
I'm presenting two lists of the twelve teams involved in the playoffs. The first list ranks them in order of my own preference while the second rates them according to how good I think they are. As you can see by where I placed the Patriots on the two lists, I'm probably in for a very rough ride this NFL playoff season. Also note that due to their star quarterback Carson Wentz's season-ending injury in December, I'm not giving the Eagles much of a chance in spite of their top NFC seeding...
BY PREFERENCE:
1 JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS
2 ATLANTA FALCONS
3 KANSAS CITY CHIEFS
4 LOS ANGELES RAMS
5 CAROLINA PANTHERS
6 MINNESOTA VIKINGS
7 PHILADELPHIA EAGLES
8 TENNESSEE TITANS
9 PITTSBURGH STEELERS
10 NEW ORLEANS SAINTS
11 BUFFALO BILLS
12 NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS
BEST TO WORST:
1 NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS
2 PITTSBURGH STEELERS
3 MINNESOTA VIKINGS
4 LOS ANGELES RAMS
5 NEW ORLEANS SAINTS
6 CAROLINA PANTHERS
7 JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS
8 PHILADELPHIA EAGLES
9 ATLANTA FALCONS
10 KANSAS CITY CHIEFS
11 TENNESSEE TITANS
12 BUFFALO BILLS
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