Now that we know all the matchups for wild-card weekend, it’s time to get into scouting those games and deciding where the breaking points are for each playoff team. Because while you have to be pretty decent to make the postseason unless your home is in the NFC East, there are always exploitable issues that could get you booted out of the playoffs before you even begin.
Some flaws are fixable — players return from injury, coaches learn how best to scheme around the liabilities, and opponents can have more obvious and more exploitable issues.
With all that said, here’s the one (potentially) fatal flaw for every AFC wild-card team, and the matchups therein:
Saturday, January 9 at 1:05 ET: Indianapolis Cots at Buffalo Bills, CBS
Sunday, January 10 at 1:05 ET: Baltimore Ravens at Tennessee Titans, ABC/ESPN
Sunday, January 10 at 8:15 ET: Cleveland Browns at Pittsburgh Steelers, NBC/Peacock