Wild picks in NFL playoffs

A year that saw numerous injuries, yet another undefeated team coming up just short, and plenty of teams exceeding their preseason expectations.

With the 2015 National Football League regular season now completed I have finally compiled the year-end adjusted net yards per passing attempt differential stats for all 32 teams.

While the Kansas City Chiefs are more talented and have a better coaching staff than the Houston Texans, the game is in Houston, which should help keep the mediocre Texans in the game.

It’s odd to not have perhaps the best quarterback of all time at No. 1 on this list, but Brady has not been as effective as Newton, and is without key members of his offense. They limit the Kansas City run game, and get after Alex Smith. With a two-headed backfield of Charcandrick West and Spencer Ware, this Chiefs team is just to versatile for the Texans.

This weekend’s playoff game takes place Saturday, January 9 at 8:15pm ET on CBS and will pit the Steelers and Bengals against one another for a third time this season. He passed for 160 yards and two touchdowns with no interceptions and relied on his running game led by Jeremy Hill (96 yards) and Gio Bernard (36 yards).

This is the game the Jets would be in so I write this prediction with a little bit of anger, but nonetheless, this should be a good one. The contest quickly got out of control at a time when the Steelers were powering through a five-game hot streak, Pittsburgh fed DeAngelo Williams on the ground for three touchdowns and the Pittsburgh defense grabbed three interceptions from both Dalton (who broke his thumb making a tackle) and backup A.J. McCarron.

If and when the Seahawks win at Minnesota, they’ll have to travel to Carolina to face the 15-1 and top-seeded Panthers, whom they lost to at home early in the regular season. Winners of six out of their last seven, the Seahawks are arguably the most unsafe team in the NFL. Along the way, he engineered a 38-7 victory over the Vikings in Minnesota on December 6. If the Seahawks shut down Adrian Peterson, which they did very well last time they met, then they should be able to come out of this game with a win. As I pointed out several weeks ago, only two teams have managed to make it to the Super Bowl over the course of the last 20 years with a defensive ANY/A number greater than 5.94. “If the (opposing) quarterback turns the ball over and you don’t, it puts your team in a situation to win the ballgame”. That’s right, the Washington Redskins.

The Packers will take a lot of baggage with them to Washington (or, to be more accurate: Landover, Maryland), starting with their uncharacteristically punchless offense. If the Bengals make it to the next round, it’s a wait and see how they played on whether Dalton goes in or not. “I think the message was taken care of before”, Lewis said of their mild comments. I’m picking one home team to move on this weekend, and that team is the Washington Redskins. The Steelers won the most recent meeting, 33-20, December 13 in Cincinnati. Both of the Steelers coaches have lead Pittsburgh to a Super Bowl title in the same time frame as Lewis has lost six straight playoff games. If nothing major happens, the Seahawks, Packers, Bengals, and Chiefs are the expert picks to advance to the next round of the National Football League playoffs. He phoned his concerns to Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin the morning after and his players have said they’ve discussed it among themselves.