NFL Super Wild Card Weekend best bets: Chiefs put Dolphins on ice, plus two outright underdog winners

To quote the legendary Jim Mora … PLAYOFFS! PLAYOFFS? It’s the postseason and it’s the most wonderful time of the NFL calendar. 

We’ve got insane happenings in the NFL coaching space, with Mike Vrabel, Pete Carroll and Bill Belichick all OUT with their respective organizations. But let’s not forget there’s actually FOOTBALL this weekend. We’re loaded to the gills with games all weekend long.

So let’s fire up best bets for the postseason. One for every game of Super Wild Card Weekend and one for every single game of the playoffs moving forward. To the best bets! 

Saturday, 4:30 p.m. ET (NBC, fubo) 

Now that I’ve formally apologized to Browns fans for picking them to go 7-10, I will be leaping firmly onto the January Joe Flacco bandwagon, unencumbered by any previous concerns with Cleveland’s chances of playing winning football. I’ve said it a ton already and I’ll say it again: what is meaningfully different about Flacco’s skill set now from when he made a Super Bowl run with the Ravens this time about 10 years ago? He wasn’t insanely mobile then and he’s got a similar group of skill-position guys, plus an elite defense backing him. This matchup will require him to attack vertically and win in the passing game, since the Texans profile as somewhat of a pass funnel and Cleveland might not be able to easily run on them. C.J. Stroud draws an impossible assignment in his first postseason start, going against maybe the best defense in football as a rookie QB in the playoffs. Home field is a help, but I’ll take the veteran with the better defense against the first-year QB and coach. 

Saturday, 8 p.m. ET (Peacock) 

The narrative surrounding this game might just lean into the weather! It’s supposed to be -2 degrees or so in Kansas City on Saturday — yes, -2 degrees — with a wind chill around -10 thanks to 10-15 mph winds. Stealing the narrative from Tyreek Hill here is pretty impressive — it’s…

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Author : Will Brinson

Publish date : 2024-01-11 20:47:49

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