Florida NFL Teams: All 8-8 and in Playoff Running at Season's End

I suppose this is what the bigshots of the National Football League had in mind when they added a team from each conference to be in the postseason playoffs: teams with mediocre records are sneaking in.  For my home state of Florida, this is a windfall as two of the three teams here...Jacksonville and Miami...haven't exactly been setting the league on fire during the past few seasons.  I remember the first year I seriously began to follow pro football, 1967, when the Baltimore Colts, undefeated at 11-0-2 going into the final regular season game against their divisional rivals the Los Angeles Rams, lost that contest and thus failed to make the playoffs.  That's the year, if you're old enough to remember, that Green Bay won the NFL championship (before going on the Super Bowl) in the infamous Ice Bowl game against Dallas...the Packers lost four games during the regular season in a weak division.  This year's version of the Tampa Bay Bucs, still with Tom Brady taking the snaps, was similarly blessed with a weak division as they've already clinched a playoff spot in spite of their often-lackluster play so far.  The other two Sunshine State teams, although with the same records, are going in diametrically opposite directions.  Jacksonville, having started 2-6, have since become a winner under Super Bowl-winning first-year coach Doug Pederson with Trevor Lawrence coming into his own as a quality premier quarterback. The Jaguars have a chance to win their division title with a regular-season-closing game next week against slumping Tennessee.  Speaking of slumping, the Miami Dolphins, earlier with an 8-3 record and on top of their division, have now lost five games in a row and are "outside looking in" on a playoff slot.  Their fate this year seems bound to that of third year quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, who is now out of action due to his third diagnosed concussion.  They will face rival New York Jets in the season closer...if they win and New England loses to Buffalo, Miami's in.  Too bad they fell like this: in each of their last five games they played tough but lost by small margins.  As far as I'm concerned, it's been a good year for Florida in the NFL this year regardless of what happens next week, since I've always held reasonable expectations for "my" teams, only wanting them to stay in contention toward the season's close. And all three have, although I have my doubts about the Dolphins making the playoffs or the Bucs advancing very far in them.  But who knows what Jacksonville will do...