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As NFL playoff expansion delivers more duds, careful what you wish for

Coming into this past weekend, we only had 13 NFL games left until September, so complaining about any of them seems a little ungrateful. But let’s be honest … several of the allegedly "super" wild-card matchups in the NFL playoffs stunk like those Thanksgiving leftovers you just discovered in the back of the fridge.

Sure, two of the games came down to the last possession. But two others were all but unwatchable from the jump. The Bucs and Bills hung a combined 58 points – Tampa Bay 31, Buffalo 27 – on the scoreboard before their opponents, the seventh-seeded Eagles and sixth-seeded Patriots, even scored.