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What we learned from wild-card round of 2022 NFL playoffs: Brady still in championship form, Chiefs cruising - CBS Sports
Jan 18, 2022 1 min, 24 secs
Wild Card Weekend Winners and Losers.

One round of the 2021 NFL playoffs is officially in the books.

And those are just a couple of the games from Super Wild Card Weekend, the first flurry of postseason action from the NFL's first 17-game season.

Before we turn completely to the Divisional Round, here are some things we learned from Wild Card action:.

They had some ugly moments this season, but Andy Reid's contenders are as ready as ever to challenge for a title.

But moving forward, they can't necessarily lean on their defense as much as they did in 2021 and expect to be contenders.

But the Cowboys were 1-3 before Dak got hurt in 2020 and just saw a 12-5 NFC East title run go to waste with a sloppy one-and-done loss to San Francisco.

No doubt Jimmy Garoppolo deserves credit for helping guide San Francisco's late-season stretch, but his late-game errors nearly cost the team a win against Dallas that should never have been as close as it was.

Forget all those Andy Dalton years, this Bengals team is locked and loaded for the bright lights.

It's not totally fair to grade interim coach Rich Bisaccia and longtime QB Derek Carr solely on their loss to the Bengals, but then again, this was a defining moment for a franchise in transition.

After finding a way to edge the Chargers in a thrilling Week 18, the Raiders managed just 19 points against a Bengals defense that's proven vulnerable, throwing short of the end zone with the game on the line.

Buffalo won its second straight AFC East title this season, and it also bested New England in Foxborough during the rivals' second meeting of the 2021 campaign.

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