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The Washington Redskins will host the Seattle Seahawks in an NFC wild-card game Sunday afternoon. At one point during the regular season, the Redskins were 3-6. But they won seven consecutive games, including five against the NFC East, to emerge as t...

By the end of this day, the Washington Redskins or the Dallas Cowboys will be NFC East champions. If the Redskins are the champs, and three other games break the right way, the New York Giants can make the playoffs as a wild-card team but the Cowboys...

The St. Louis Rams can still earn a wild-card playoff berth this season despite a 36-22 home defeat to the Minnesota Vikings in Week 16. Rams fans frustrated by their team's confounding performance Sunday might not want to hear about it. But I ...

ESPN Insider's Week 15 NFL Playoff Predictor, powered by numberFire, reveals that the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins are gaining ground on the final wild-card spot in the NFC.

Story | Conversation | December 11, 2012

Football Outsiders breaks down the NFC wild-card race, explaining why the Seattle Seahawks and Chicago Bears are likely to make the postseason.

Story | Conversation | December 10, 2012

Oh, you want to know about tiebreaker scenarios and what happens if the New York Giants lose the next two and the Washington Redskins beat Baltimore, or what the Dallas Cowboys need to do to sneak into that wild-card picture? You see that the Gian...

ESPN Insider's Week 14 NFL Playoff Predictor, powered by numberFire, reveals that the Cincinnati Bengals and Washington Redskins are gaining ground on the final wild-card spots.

Story | Conversation | December 04, 2012

The Bears' loss kept the NFC wild-card race interesting, writes John Clayton.

ESPN Insider's Week 13 NFL Playoff Predictor, powered by numberFire, reveals that the Pittsburgh Steelers and Seattle Seahawks are clinging to the final wild-card spots.

Story | Conversation | November 26, 2012

After the Sunday games, the Cowboys find themselves two games back of the NFC East leading New York Giants with five games to play in the regular season. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said it would be difficult to reach the postseason as a wild-card t...

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Cowboys coach Jason Garrett didn't want to speak about the playoffs after his team's 38-31 loss to the Washington Redskins on Thursday. Quarterback Tony Romo didn't want to talk about that, either. But owner Jerry Jones said...

Cowboys' win in Philadelphia, manageable schedule ignite playoff hope.

IRVING, Texas -- As Todd Archer reminds Cowboys fans, quarterback Tony Romo is returning to Seattle for the first time since the 2006 NFC playoffs. In that wild-card game, Romo fumbled the snap on a potential game-winning field goal attempt, and...

As Cowboys return to Seattle, bobbled snap lingers over Tony Romo's career.

A trio of Insider's top NFL analysts provides its analysis behind its picks for division champs, wild-card winners and sleeper teams that could go deep.

Story | Conversation | September 03, 2012

Mike Jenkins is a wild card, so Orlando Scandrick must step up his game.