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Chris Simms' All-22 Team for NFL Wild Card Weekend

If you didn't enjoy watching blowouts during Wild Card Weekend, you're not alone.

But never fear! The top-seeded playoff teams are ready to suit up, and judging by the NFL's recent playoff history, they're more powerful than they have been in some time.

Consider the last three Super Bowl matchups: Broncos-Panthers, Seahawks-Patriots and Seahawks-Broncos. All three pitted the AFC's No. 1 seed against the NFC's. There wasn't a wild-card team to be found when the dust settled in the playoff bracket.

So the phrase we hear repeatedly during the postseason—"just find a way to get in and anything can happen"—hasn't been true in the last few years.