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So, I went 1-1 in last week's wild-card games. Guess I shouldn't have been such an AFC North homer. Let's see how I fare in Saturday's AFC divisional playoff game: Denver Broncos 23, Baltimore Ravens 20: This will be closer than what people think....

Tom Carpenter provides the best bets for the divisional round for Gridiron Playoff Challenge.

Few are giving the Baltimore Ravens any chance of beating the Denver Broncos in Saturday's AFC wild-card game. The Ravens lost to the Broncos by 17 points three weeks ago. They haven't beaten Peyton Manning since 2001. And they're playing on six d...

Are Peyton Manning and Tom Brady on a collision course in the AFC? Can either the Ravens or Texans crash the party?

Five nuggets of knowledge about Saturday's Minnesota Vikings-Green Bay Packers wild-card game: Frozen tundra: You've already heard plenty of national nostalgia about playing a night game in freezing temperatures at one of the NFL's most sacred cat...

The NFL announced the dates and times for the wild-card round of the playoffs: The Cincinnati Bengals will play at the Houston Texans on Saturday at 4:30 p.m. ET. The Baltimore Ravens will play host to the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday at 1 p.m. ET...

1. Patriots improved chances for deep playoff run The Patriots needed some good fortune and a good performance Sunday to land a first-round bye. Both things happened, and as a result New England will skip the wild-card round. The Indianapolis C...

NFL playoff schedule

The New England Patriots, for the most part, will know what they are playing for by the time they take the field Sunday against the Miami Dolphins. New England (11-4) has the late, 4:25 p.m. ET game this week, while the Houston Texans (12-3) will ...

Year in and year out, the Dallas Cowboys are the most disappointing team in the NFL. They have one playoff win, a wild-card victory, since 1996. They talk big and never deliver. They are overpaid, overrated and overexposed. They fall apart when thing...

Steelers running backs coach Kirby Wilson made his first visit to the team's facility Wednesday since he was severely burned in a fire only days before Pittsburgh's wild-card game against the Denver Broncos, according to the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette.

Coincidental. Telling. Call them what you want, but the numbers from Denver's wild-card win could make believers out of even the staunchest Tim Tebow critics, Adam Schefter writes.

We're baaaaaaack! After a week hiatus for the wild-card round, I decided to get back into prediction mode since we have one AFC East team playing this weekend. Here are the AFC East blog's picks for the divisional round: Denver Broncos (9-8)...

Aaron Rodgers and Eli Manning both know firsthand the hard road to the Super Bowl, writes John Clayton.

Someone has to lose Saturday's divisional-round playoff game between the New England Patriots and Denver Broncos. But one person will smell like roses this weekend no matter the outcome: Josh McDaniels. The formers Broncos head coach and current P...

Line play made the difference in three of four playoff games thus far, Ross Tucker writes.