What a wild regular season we had in 2019. Tons of quarterback departures started off the year, with , and all disappearing into the void by the end of Week 2. And yet, despite three top-shelf quarterbacks falling by the wayside, we ended up with a loaded slate. The only team who made the dance with le s than 10 wins was the , who emerged victorious in the NFC East.Of course, regular season records are now irrelevant. It’s perfectly fine to reflect on a regular season record — like, for instance, the fact that I destroyed the competition in against the spread picks for the entire 2019 regular season.But note that my record, like that of every , resets at this point. Everyone is 0-0 now. Just because the Eagles didn’t win 12 games doesn’t mean they can’t beat the .Having said that, this is the first time a team has been a short ‘dog (le s than a touchdown) at home since after the 2015 season, when the were short ‘dogs to the . Cincy should have won that game, but, uh, . Over the last 15 years (since the 2004 season), there have been 13 games where a home team in Wild Card Weekend was an underdog. In those games, the home team is a concerning 3-10 straight up, with the only wins coming either in overtime (twice) Martin Perez Jersey or via an all-time insane comeback (Andrew Luck over the after the 2013 season). Those home teams are 6-6-1 against the spread, however and the under is 9-4 so it’s po sible we just get a low-scoring close game that features Jason Myers knocking down a field goal to give the Seahawks a sneak-out-of-town victory over Philly. The point being the a sumption that a team with a better regular season record will blow out a team who struggled to close out a bad division is short-sighted. We’ve seen a team like the 7-8-1 throttle an opponent on Wild Card Weekend.My picks are below, but if you need more playoff info, make sure and and fire up the latest edition of the Pick Six Podcast. We do daily shows — even on holidays! — and we’ll have our playoff picks show up Friday morning. Hit the play button below for the latest on Black Friday rumors and to your favorite podcast app. +2.5 at Unle s I am just completely misreading this, the Alex Verdugo Jersey Bills are not considered the trendy underdog pick for Wild Card Weekend. They’re getting about 50 percent of the bets so far this week, so I don’t think it’s the case where everyone is picking them. Maybe people should be picking the Bills though. Buffalo’s strengths match up against what the Texans need to have happen for them to win.Specifically, the Bills’ pa s defense has been one of the best in the NFL this season. is a blo soming superstar cornerback, and he should be able to hang with . Whether or not Houston gets back could be a major factor here — Houston averages over 25 points per game when Fuller plays and le s than 20 when he’s mi sing. That doesn’t fully account for the wide receiver being dinged up for portions of games, either. J.J. Watt says he’ll play too, although coming back from a midseason torn pectoral muscle for a wild-card game feels like it could limit his effectivene s. I think Buffalo will want to run the ball a bunch, eat up clock and turn this into a defensive grinder of a game. If there’s one thing Bill O’Brien’s shown us this year, is that he’ll play along if someone tries to do that. If Houston does, it severely limits their effectivene s on offense and minimizes their scoring opportunities. should be able to take some shots against this Texans secondary. Bills win outright and advance. -5 vs. is the trendy underdog pick. I’ve seen plenty of people project the Titans to roll into Foxborough and beat Pedro Martinez Jersey the Patriots, including three of four in our Pick Six Podcast crew, who did it out of the gate on our YouTube Wild Card Weekend Lookahead Lines show: It’s very po sible the Titans are just a bad matchup for this New England team. You need to beat the Pats by running the football, and was the best running back in football over the second half of the season, when he piled up yards and won the rushing title. was a revelation, potentially altering the franchise’s course at quarterback for the next several years. He’s loose, free and whipping the ball downfield en route to leading the league in pa ser rating. I love A.J. Brown more than I love some family members, and he deserves more love for Offensive Rookie of the Year than he’s getting. But I’ve seen this movie before: trendy team who got hot down the stretch goes into New England as a shorter underdog, with a bunch of people picking Xander Bogaerts Jersey them to win because the matchups favor them, only to get flexed on by Bill Belichick and . and it could work out poorly for the Titans too.Maybe Tenne see is closer to the 2009 ? They got the Pats on Wild Card Weekend and smashed them with the run game and defense. Brady looked horrific against the in the first half and then, with a bye on the line, Belichick’s defense couldn’t stop , and from marching down the field. There’s plenty of reason to be concerned for New England. I don’t think they win the Super Bowl. But I’m not going to fade them at home in the playoffs until they show me I should. +7.5 at This is just too many points for me to take the Saints. New Orleans is maybe the hottest offense in football, and no one’s looked worse than the Vikings over the past two weeks — they laid the biggest egg of the year with their Monday night Week 16 lo s to the at home, with a chance to keep their division title hopes alive. Horrendous performance. Week 17 featured backups in a lo s to the at home, so maybe it wasn’t that bad, but to the casual fan Minnesota is limping in. You will hear people say all week long that this is a revenge game for the Saints for the Minneapolis Miracle. That’s a way to identify a storyline instead of looking at the actual matchups involved. And the reality is the Vikings aren’t a great offensive matchup for the Saints defense. With and , the Saints might be due to give up a 100-yard rusher for the first time in 42 games (playoffs included). I don’t think the Saints can completely lock down both and . gets to play at 1 p.m. ET! hasn’t been limited at all in practice — there’s reason to think he should be able Fred Lynn Jersey to have a fully healthy game, which would be a major boon for the Vikings’ offense. Kevin Stefanski basically abandoned attacking Green Bay with play action without Cook in the game. They don’t need to establish the run to make it work, so that was a little odd.With Cook healthy, the Vikings should renew their play-action focus, and it will result in points. I’m not sure how they stop the Saints from scoring, though: Brees is playing lights out right now and may have benefited from mi sing six games because his arm doesn’t look tired the way it did this time last year. is the best wide receiver in football right now. This over has been steaming up all week and I expect it to finish north of 50 — I think this game is played in the 60s, but I would grab Over 49 if you can.…