The 2022 NFL regular season is over. Fourteen teams have emerged from the scattered wreckage of an 18-week chain reaction of explosions with Super Bowl 57 dreams still intact.
Wild Card weekend, split into a three-day, six game extravaganza, will be the end of the line for six of those teams. The Divisional Round will shed four more. There may be an odd contender or two in the mix of broken hearts — at least one of the AFC’s power broker contingent of the Kansas City Chiefs, Buffalo Bills and Cincinnati Bengals is guaranteed to be there. But for the most part, the teams who lose en route to the conference championships will be road underdogs whose promising stories were always a longshot to end in Arizona.
