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We’ll start in the AFC, where there aren’t a ton of teams that are really playing all that well right now. The Houston Texans looked like they were just going to run away and hide from the rest of the AFC South, but all of a sudden, after three straight losses to end the regular season, they only ended up winning the division by a single game over the Tennessee Titans, who were the last team left out of the playoffs in the conference.

In fact, Houston’s last win came against the Cincinnati Bengals, the team that it will face on Saturday to kick off the postseason. To say that this is a strange combination of postseason teams is a bit of an understatement. The Texans have never played in the playoffs in franchise history, while the Bengals were the team that everyone was just set to write off even when they were a 6-2 club. Obviously, neither team has played well offensively of late, which is why the first game of the weekend only has a ‘total’ of 39. Houston gets the nod by a field goal on the opening Wild Card weekend lines.

Later on Saturday night, we have a rematch of a clash from just over a month ago on Sunday Night Football. The Detroit Lions were no match for the New Orleans Saints that day, and that’s what it looks like is going to be the case this time around as well at the Louisiana Superdome. This is going to be the first time in NFL history that a pair of 5,000 yard quarterbacks face off in the postseason, as both QB Drew Brees and QB Matt Stafford reached that milestone. The oddsmakers are expecting a boatload of points in this game, as the ‘total’ is set at 58.5, the highest number that we have seen all season long. New Orleans is favored by 10.5, but you can bet that Head Coach Jim Schwartz is telling his team that this upset can be had, especially after last season when the Saints were beaten by the Seattle Seahawks in a very similar situation.

Sunday’s NFL playoff schedule gets started at 1:00, when the New York Giants meet the Atlanta Falcons at MetLife Stadium. The G-Men have had an up and down season, but when push has really come to shove, they have been able to win the big time games, include two against the Dallas Cowboys in the last month of the season just to get into the playoffs. The Falcons are on a high after a few really big wins, but not a lot of them have come against playoff teams. QB Eli Manning and QB Matt Ryan are two of the quarterbacks that will be carrying the league into the next decade, and they should both put on a good show on Sunday. Atlanta is a pup by a field goal, while the ‘total’ starts the week off at 49.

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And that leaves the game that most are looking forward to as one of the most interesting matchups of the postseason. The Pittsburgh Steelers and their vaunted defense are going to go on the road against arguably the worst offensive team that we have ever seen in the postseason, the Denver Broncos. Denver was only able to score a single field goal in Week 17 with a playoff bid on the line against a Kansas City Chiefs defense that allowed 89 points in its first two games of the year. The Steelers haven’t played that well offensively, but this is as good of a matchup as they are going to get in terms of getting that ‘O’ going.

QB Ben Roethlisberger has been able to guide the boys in black and gold to the Super Bowl on numerous occasions, and now, it is QB Tim Tebow’s turn to prove that he can do it his way as well. If Denver is going to win this game, it is going to do it on the strength of its rushing attack for sure, as Tebow just isn’t that great of a throwing quarterback. The problem is that the Steelers year in and year out have one of the most frightening rush defenses in football. That’s why the boys from the ‘Burgh are -7.5. The ‘total’ is understandably the lowest of the weekend as well at just 35.

2012 NFL Wild Card Odds @ SportBet Sportsbook (as of 1/4/12):
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AFC Wild Card Betting Odds
101 Cincinnati Bengals +3
102 Houston Texans -3
Over/Under 38.5

107 Pittsburgh Steelers -9
108 Denver Broncos +9
Over/Under 34.5

NFC Wild Card Betting Lines
103 Detroit Lions +10.5
104 New Orleans Saints -10.5
Over/Under 58.5

105 Atlanta Falcons +3
106 New York Giants -3
Over/Under 47

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