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Wild-Card Weekend Takeaways: Watson Escapes the Madness, the End of Brady/Belichick?

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Reacting and overreacting to everything that happened during Wild-Card Weekend...

Things That Made Me Giddy

This Is Why You Love Deshaun Watson: He’s not a perfect quarterback, and this offense’s shortcomings were on display for the first 40 minutes or so on Saturday. But he has a knack for making out-of-structure plays where he is mapping the field in absolute chaos, and he often delivers them at the biggest moments. You hate to lean on vague descriptors like “grit” and “heart” and “intangibles,” but it’s tough to describe Saturday’s comeback—and his first NFL postseason win—without them.