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by Digger

The time has come... NFL Playoffs 2008 kicks with Wild Card Weekend. Great matchups await us all. Ironic, one of the AFC's hottest teams is guaranteed to lose this weekend. Smoking hot Indianapolis travels to red hot San Diego (Saturday). Both have been carving up AFC opponents lately. Another superb AFC WC game (Sunday) has tough as nails Baltimore taking on a well balanced Miami team which had only one victory a season ago.

NFC isn't to shabby either. Exciting Atlanta takes on a struggling Arizona team lucky enough to have won the NFL's weakest division. Red hot Philadelphia takes their show to Minnesota for Sunday's game. Donavan McNabb is lazer sharp these days. Minnesota's RB Peterson has been nothing short of amazing lately.

Wild Card Prediction time........Saturday's AFC/NFC Games:

Atlanta (11-5) @ Arizona (9-7): Atlanta had a storybook season. Rookie Head Coach, rookie starting QB, new RB... young team. QB Ryan is cool and collected. RB Turner exploded as a starter this year after playing understudy in SD (17 TD's and 1699 rushing yards). Sound football team on defense. Arizona has been cold lately. Offense out of synch, defense nowhere to be found. They'll have to snap out of their funk to give Atlanta a run for their money. If they do... watch out. Cardinals offense is dangerous when clicking. QB Warner had a huge season and has plenty of weapons.
This game reads Atlanta victory... 33-24.

Indianapolis (12-4) @ San Diego (8-8): Colts NFL's hottest, winners of 9 in a row. Manning has been great and could add MVP hardware. Indy must put up points .. plenty of them to win this game vs a hot Chargers attack. Indy's D is vulnerable with big play capability. San Diego overcame multiple bad breaks earlier this year. Terrible officiating late in games turned victories into defeats. Mid-season injuries to key players seemed to have left this team for dead. They got hot at the right time... as AFC West leading Denver got cold. 3 wins later and SD won the West at 8-8. San Diego's offense is explosive and they're matched up against the right defense. Problem is .. will their D stop Indy's offense? Yes.
SD knocks off Indy in a thriller, 41-37.

Stay tuned for Sunday's Wild Card Predictions...........