More Wild Card Musings

Pianow checking in with some New England-Jacksonville thoughts . . .

Mike was right. The Jags should have stuck with Garrard.

The Pats had reason to be concerned at halftime. But they totally dominated the third quarter, and showed their class in the process.

I can't watch a Jacksonville game without a slew of dropped passes.

Corey Dillon looked slow to me all night. Rosey Colvin is slowly getting back up to speed. I've never seen Richard Seymour play a poor game. For a so-called elite corner, Rashean Mathis sure gets beat a lot.

No one really talked much of this but I wonder if the Pats told Matt Cassel to throw the ball out of bounds on the game-ending 2-point try last week against Miami (the ball was air-mailed out of the corner of the end zone). I don't care what Pittsburgh does tomorrow, Jacksonville *was* the weakest draw in the AFC field.

Washington-Tampa Bay? The game was messy. The announcing was worse.

Keep reading below for Mike's extended take on Day 1 of the NFL Playoffs. - scott pianowski

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