NFL Power Rankings, Championship Sunday: Bengals, Eagles ride high; Bills, Cowboys bow out - NFL.com

Sure, we were hoping for perhaps a little more drama from the Divisional Round of the playoffs, but ultimately, we all get the desired result: The four best teams are left standing, each with a strong case for the Lombardi Trophy, all playing on one Sunday for a trip to the damn Super Bowl.

Joe Cool 2.0 played quarterback like a man possessed on Sunday in Orchard Park, picking apart the Bills in a resounding 27-10 win that sent Cincinnati back to the AFC Championship Game for the second straight year.

Of course, simply reaching the conference title match isn't good enough for a franchise as decorated as Kansas City: This is about the Lombardi Trophy, and it's fair to wonder how badly the team's chances of securing that hardware were impacted when Patrick Mahomes suffered that gnarly high ankle sprain in Saturday's 27-20 win over the Jaguars.

Getting beaten by the reigning conference champion Bengals is no cause for shame, of course, but how the Bills were manhandled -- in all three phases, from the opening kickoff to the final whistle -- has to be disturbing for a team that believed it would find a way after last January's stomach-punch loss to the Chiefs.

1" and KaVontae Turpin as the "Receiver Without A Prayer In The World," pretty neatly summed up a lost Sunday for the Cowboys, who got a tremendous effort from their defense but a maddening no-show from Dak Prescott and the offense in a 19-12 loss at Levi's Stadium.

The Jaguars couldn't find a way against the Chiefs and a banged-up Patrick Mahomes on Saturday, but an AFC South title and epic playoff win over the Chargers tells us the future is very bright in Duval.