by Scott Kacsmar (TEN-KC) and Rivers McCown (BUF-JAC)
Pick your method -- wins and losses, point differential, DVOA, or conventional wisdom -- and they all say the same thing: the AFC has the two weakest of this year's 12 NFL playoff teams. Tiebreakers after the final week left us with the teams ranked 18th (Tennessee) and 21st (Buffalo) in DVOA instead of the teams ranked seventh (Baltimore) and 11th (L.A. Chargers).
On the other side of these games, we have two of the league's more unbalanced teams, the defense-first Jacksonville Jaguars and the offense-first Kansas City Chiefs.