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2011 NFL Playoffs Wild Card Round – Game Predictions from AllGreenBayPackers.com

GAME PREDICTIONS 2011 NFL Playoffs: Wild Card Round
Name	Straight Up	Against the Spread
Cincinnati Bengals at Houston Texans (-3)
Kris Burke	Bengals	Bengals
“Jersey” Al Bracco	Texans	Texans
Adam Czech (on vacation)	Bengals/Texans	Bengals/Texans
Thomas Hobbes	Texans	Texans
Zach Kruse	Texans	Bengals
Chad Toporski	Texans	Texans
Detroit Lions at New Orleans Saints (-11)
Kris Burke	Saints	Saints
“Jersey” Al Bracco	Saints	Lions
Adam Czech (on vacation)	Lions/Saints	Lions/Saints
Thomas Hobbes	Saints	Lions
Zach Kruse	Saints	Saints
Chad Toporski	Saints	Saints
Atlanta Falcons at New York Giants (-3)
Kris Burke	Falcons	Falcons
“Jersey” Al Bracco	Giants	Giants
Adam Czech (on vacation)	Falcons/Giants	Falcons/Giants
Thomas Hobbes	Giants	Giants
Zach Kruse	Giants	Giants
Chad Toporski	Falcons	Falcons
Pittsburgh Steelers at Denver Broncos (+9)
Kris Burke	Steelers	Steelers
“Jersey” Al Bracco	Steelers	Broncos
Adam Czech (on vacation)	Steelers/Broncos	Steelers/Broncos
Thomas Hobbes	Steelers	Steelers
Zach Kruse	Steelers	Steelers
Chad Toporski	Steelers	Broncos

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NFL Playoff Preview. A Wild Weekend is in the Cards

Victor Cruz will be a lot for the Atlanta Falcons to handle

The Packers will face the Giants, Falcons or Lions on Jan. 15 in a divisional round playoff game at Lambeau Field. All three teams gave the Packers everything they could handle in regular season games, and lost.

Looking ahead to the divisional round, I expect one of these three teams to again give the Packers a helluva game…and lose.

All three teams present unique challenges for the Packers, but none have enough talent in the secondary to keep the Packers out of the end zone often enough to win.

But before we can focus in on who the Packers will face next week, the wild card round needs to be played. Here is a closer look at those matchups:

Saturday, January 7

AFC: 3:30 PM

Cincinnati at Houston (NBC)

Breakdown: Those of you that are sickened by the lack of defense in modern football should watch this game. Bengals QB Andy Dalton struggled in the second half of the season while the Texans were forced to turn things over to third-string QB T.J. Yates. Yates got the best of Dalton in an earlier matchup, but I think Dalton gets revenge this time around. The Bengals will win and snap the NFL’s longest stretch without a playoff victory (1990, wild-card round).

NFC: 7 PM

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