As the first round of the 2018-19 NFL postseason approaches, it's easy to look at the games and the big picture. We have eight teams in action on Wild Card Weekend with four more on bye awaiting the winners of the early contests.
The Houston Texans, Indianapolis Colts, Seattle Seahawks, Dallas Cowboys, Los Angeles Chargers, Baltimore Ravens, Philadelphia Eagles and Chicago Bears will all see the field this weekend.
While it isn't difficult to look at the playoff landscape and make wholesale predictions, it can be a little trickier to identify how some of the individual matchups could throw the big-picture predictions out the window.