This is mostly Indianapolis’ fault.
This “run” the Jets are on right now. The Bengals getting shellacked in the first round. The Chargers’ potentially historic season tossed aside like so much nothing. Mark Sanchez’ confidence growing each week. Rex Ryan talking like Muhammad Ali’s trainer when a month ago he didn’t know his team was [...]

Before we get going on anything related to picks or surprises or anything else regarding the playoffs as a whole, allow me a post-mortem…
I can barely talk about it. I don’t like to think about it. I can talk about it, and think about it, but not without getting some strange mixture of violently angry [...]

Before we get to this week’s business, of which, dear readers, there is plenty, I’d like to take a moment to highlight perhaps the single-best fifteen minutes of action in Week 17.
Neither Miami nor Pittsburgh ended up making the playoffs, but the action on the field during their Week 17 game was playoff-caliber: ferocious, back-and-forth, [...]