Is it the year of the Wild Card...Again?

[bap1331]

Looking at the playoff picture if the season ended today:

All the wild cards have been to the Super Bowl or won it in the past 5 years:

-Steelers

-Patriots

-Colts

-Seahawks (7 years is close enough

-Bears

-Giants

-Packers

The teams with the first bye week always flop in the playoffs somehow:

-Falcons

-Texans

-Ravens

-49ers

To me it looks like the Giants are going to the Super Bowl again this year since they can easily pick apart the Falcons, Bears, Packers, and 49ers...

Of course this is just a prediction

[Captain Americolt]

Looking at the playoff picture if the season ended today:

All the wild cards have been to the Super Bowl or won it in the past 5 years:

-Steelers

-Patriots

-Colts

-Seahawks (7 years is close enough

-Bears

-Giants

-Packers

The teams with the first bye week always flop in the playoffs somehow:

-Falcons

-Texans

-Ravens

-49ers

To me it looks like the Giants are going to the Super Bowl again this year since they can easily pick apart the Falcons, Bears, Packers, and 49ers...

Of course this is just a prediction

Colts were never a wild-card the years they went to the Super Bowl.

The others i'm probably not even sure of now. Too lazy to look them up..

[DILLIGAFER]

Colts were never a wild-card the years they went to the Super Bowl.

The others i'm probably not even sure of now. Too lazy to look them up..

[21isSuperman]

Colts were never a wild-card the years they went to the Super Bowl.

The others i'm probably not even sure of now. Too lazy to look them up..

What the OP meant, if I'm interpreting his post correctly, is that the teams currently in wild card positions have made it to the Super Bowl within the last few years. So it doesn't matter if they made it there as a wild card team or not, but they made it there. They have an idea of what it takes to get there. And those teams currently with first round byes haven't made it to the Super Bowl in a long time.

While it is an interesting trend, the problem is that the teams change like crazy. The Indy team that went to the Super Bowl and the current Indy team are very different. The Seahawks team that made it and arguably should have won is very different. Same thing with the Bears.

[DILLIGAFER]

Colts were never a wild-card the years they went to the Super Bowl.

The others i'm probably not even sure of now. Too lazy to look them up..

Colts were never a wild-card the years they went to the Super Bowl.

The others i'm probably not even sure of now. Too lazy to look them up..

While they werent the 'wildcard' team, in route to the 2006 sb championship, the Colts had to win 4 straight playoff games including the wild card playoff team KC.

Wild Card playoffs

Saturday, January 6, 2007

AFC: Indianapolis Colts 23, Kansas City Chiefs 8

[chad72]

The wild card team I would be afraid of if I am in the 3 or 4 spot in the AFC would be the Steelers with a healthy Polamalu, Harrison and Big Ben, IMO. They have a way of elevating their game once their D starts cooking on the road and good Ds travel well on the road in the playoffs.

[oldunclemark]

Looking at the playoff picture if the season ended today:

All the wild cards have been to the Super Bowl or won it in the past 5 years:

-Steelers

-Patriots

-Colts

-Seahawks (7 years is close enough

-Bears

-Giants

-Packers

The teams with the first bye week always flop in the playoffs somehow:

-Falcons

-Texans

-Ravens

-49ers

To me it looks like the Giants are going to the Super Bowl again this year since they can easily pick apart the Falcons, Bears, Packers, and 49ers...

Of course this is just a prediction

Teams with the first week bye dont always flop...look at New England's history