Devils Advocate: Wild Card Weekend

This postseason, instead of looking back, I'm going to dedicate my post to looking forward to the games on the slate each weekend, breaking down why each team will win their matchup.

Cincinnati at Houston

• Why the Bengals will win: Despite every team knowing that the Bengals entire offense is predicated on tossing the ball to AJ Green A LOT, Houston will try to "stop the run."
• Why the Texans will win: They beat this same Bengal team last year in the Wild Card round starting TJ Fucking Yates at QB, so Matt Schaub should be fine.

Minnesota at Green Bay

• Why the Vikings will win: Adrian Peterson. That's about it. He's the only reason they're in the postseason, and the only chance the Vikings have to beat the Pack. The Packers know what's coming, let's see them stop it.
• Why the Packers will win: Adrian Peterson. He's all the Vikings have, and we saw this every year when the Lions, another dome team, would roll into Lambeau with Barry Sanders and Sanders would proceed to gain -4 yards on 14 carries in the cold.

New Colts at Old Colts (or is it the other way around?) ah fuck it, Indianapolis at Baltimore

• Why the Colts will win: Chuckstrong, baby!
• Why the Ravens will win: Ray-Ray's retirement lap. Plus, they're the better team.

Seahawks at Redskins

• Why the Seahawks will win: This might actually be the most interesting game of the weekend, as two rookie QBs go head to head. Seattle will have both their big, physical corners on the field to overpower the Washington pass attack while the rest of the Seahawks D chase RG3 around to contain him. Russell Wilson wants to show that he should be rookie of the year and will be highly motivated.
• Why the Redskins will win: Despite their coach bailing on them, the Skins are the second hottest team in football (Broncos), with a dynamic QB and competent backup, so if Griffin gets KTFO'd, Cousins can still lead the Skins to a win.

After my week 17 flop, losing to a damn coin, I've spotted Dre a nice lead going into the playoffs. Like he said to me a few years back: there's no excuses now.