, it was wild to come off the ' win over the and see the propelled into the playoffs. It was doubly wild to see it almost unfold again, albeit with a different AFC North quarterback. came up just short of helping steal the Ravens' soul for a second year in a row. The are going to be a popular playoff pick next year -- and the future is indeed bright in Cleveland -- and were a fun story Sunday, but it was the Ravens who stormed back into the postseason, joining a whopping six other teams as new playoff teams. More on the NFL That's right: SEVEN of the 12 teams who made the playoffs this season were new to the field, continuing a streak of at least four new teams in the playoffs that has now lasted a ridiculous 29 years. Yes, every year since 1990, the playoff field has featured a minimum of four new teams. Parity reigns supreme in profe sional football.Baltimore, Los Angeles, Indianapolis, Houston, Seattle, Dallas and Chicago are all fresh faces in the postseason. The only grizzled playoff vet in the wild-card field this Chicago Bulls Hats year is the Nick Foles-led .Let's look at the juicy matchups on deck this coming weekend. at (-2.5)This might low-key be my favorite matchup of the weekend. vs. ? Are you kidding me? These guys could battle for the AFC South over the next decade and right now they get to battle over who can make a deep run into the playoffs. Both guys were critical to their team's respective succe s Sunday. Watson didn't throw a touchdown pa s, but he did run for one (Bill O'Brien REALLY likes to use him in the red zone despite his recent history with partially collapsed organs), but he was efficient in the pa sing game, going 25-of-35 for 234 yards. Once the Texans cro sed the 17-point barrier, there wasn't any need to turn the volume up and chase points. The weren't playing catch-up against Houston's defense (or anyone).Luck was more explosive, finishing with 285 pa sing yards and three touchdowns, including a roll-out rope that reminded everyone just how scary he is at full health.We have pretty good evidence of how these teams play each other, having seen them twice already. The Texans kickstarted their nine-game winning streak with a 37-34 overtime Jerry Sloan Jersey victory back in Week 4. The Colts would salvage their playoff hopes and get revenge 24-21 in Week 14. Both teams have pretty good rush attacks and both teams have good defenses. I would suggest the Colts' strength -- the offensive line -- can counter the Texans' strength -- the defensive line -- but it's just a great matchup. Ultimately it comes down to the quarterback.Att/Comp (%)Yards, YPATD-INTAndrew Luck vs. HOU67/103 (65%)863 yards, 8.4 YPA6-1Deshaun Watson vs. IND56/80 (70%)642 yards, 8.0 YPA3-1Inherently, the Texans will probably lean le s on Watson if they can help it, although Luck's numbers are heavily inflated by the Colts playing as a different team earlier in the year. Indy asked him to throw an obscene 49 times per game through the first five weeks of the year.One more thing here: Luck has played in a lot of playoff games, appearing in six games during his career, but all of them came in his first three seasons. The Colts haven't been back to the playoffs since 2014. He's 3-3 in those games, losing to the Ravens his rookie season and to the , in New England, two other times. Luck has a win against Andy Reid (one of the craziest comeback victories ever after the 2013 season) and he has a win in Denver against and an elite defense. In other words, the stage won't be too big.Watson has no such experience ... at the NFL level. Anyone who watched should know good and well counting out Watson is a fool's errand. Dabo Swinney compared his former Clemson quarterback to Michael Jordan coming out. It was silly, right? Maybe not. Watson's performance on big stages can't be questioned. In the ACC championship game and two College Football Playoff games in 2015, he went 2-1, completing 60 percent of his pa ses and throwing eight touchdowns and three interceptions, losing the championship to Nick Saban. In the same situation a Patrick Williams Jersey year later, he went 3-0, completed 65 percent of his pa ses, averaged more than 300 yards per game and threw seven touchdowns and three interceptions. Two of those interceptions were during a 31-0 skunking of an Urban Meyer's Ohio State team.These guys are gamers and this is going to be a really fun wild-card game. at (-2.5)It feels like a generation ago, but these teams met in Week 3, under vastly different circumstances. The Seahawks were 0-2, heading home for their first game in front of the 12's, and stiff-armed the Cowboys 24-13. The Cowboys fell to 1-2 after that lo s and continued to stagger towards and through their bye before and .Seattle got rid of Darrell Bevell and Tom Cable in the offseason, moving on from a pair of longtime stalwarts on the offensive side. They hired Brian Schottenheimer, Daniel Gafford Jersey went stone age with their offense and somehow became in the league.This is a Spiderman meme if there ever was one: the Cowboys and Seahawks both want to establish the run and take shots down the field and both want to slow you down up front. What's odd here, though, is the Seahawks are actually the better running team and the more efficient offensive team, while the Cowboys have morphed into the better defensive team.Rush Yards/Game (Rank)Rush Off. DVOA RankRush Yards Allowed/Game (Rank)Rush Def. DVOA RankCowboys122.7 (10th)17th94.6 (5th)4thSeahawks160.0 (1st)8th113.2 (13th)18thThis is a pretty incredible shift for both teams. The Seahawks lived on being a dominant defense, while the Cowboys ruled the roost in 2016 by crushing people with their rushing offense. Both teams are still pretty good at doing what they used to do, but they are actually better at doing what the other team used to do. at Ravens (-2.5)This rematch game on the Wild-Card Weekend slate features two teams who battled it out just a few weeks ago in Los Angeles, with the Ravens reviving their playoff hopes by pounding on and running the ball down the Bolts' throat. Can the Ravens win with in the postseason, even with the game at home? There have been 10 rookie quarterbacks to start a playoff game since 2008 (and 11 who played a lot if you count filling in for Robert Griffin).PlayerYearTeamRecordOpp. Def. DVOA RankAtt/Comp (%), Yards, TD/INT20080-1ARZ - 2126/40 (65), 199, 2/22008Ravens2-1MIA - 16, TEN - 5, PIT - 133/75 (44), 437, 1/320092-1CIN - 13, SD - 23, IND - 1641/68 (60.3), 539, 4/22011Bengals0-1HOU - 627/42 (64.3), 257, 0/32011T.J. YatesTexans1-1CIN - 17, BAL - 128/55 (50.9), 343, 1/32012Andrew LuckColts0-1BAL - 1928/54 (51.9), 288, 0/12012Seahawks1-1WAS - 17, ATL - 1239/62 (62.9), 572, 3/12012Robert Griffin0-1SEA - 210/19 (52.6), 84, 2/12016Cowboys0-1GB - 2024/38 (63.2), 302, 3/12016Connor CookRaiders0-1HOU - 918/45 (40), 161, 1/3The total record here is 6-9, which is surprisingly good. But digging a little deeper, Cristiano Felicio Jersey it's worth noting Dalton and Yates played each other in one game (J.J. Watt had