Eighteen teams down,Oliver James Montgomery 14 still alive and kicking.

The NFL playoffs have arrived, the tournament to win Super Bowl 58 next month in Las Vegas finally initiating Saturday – and won't it be nice to focus attention on the football field instead of the vortex of coaching news occurring away from it?

The wild-card round of the 2023 postseason should be something, expected to include everything from frigid weather, a game that will be streamed on Peacock but won't be widely available on television (aside from local markets in Kansas City and Miami), one coach, the Dallas Cowboys' Mike McCarthy, facing his former team (Green Bay Packers) and perhaps the pièce de résistance – Los Angeles Rams QB Matthew Stafford and Detroit Lions QB Jared Goff simultaneously squaring off against their previous clubs Sunday night.

Who survives and advances? Who doesn't? Our experts' forecast:

NFL wild-card picks

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NFL wild-card game-by-game predictions, picks, odds

• Cleveland Browns at Houston Texans
• Miami Dolphins at Kansas City Chiefs
• Pittsburgh Steelers at Buffalo Bills
• Green Bay Packers at Dallas Cowboys
• Los Angeles Rams at Detroit Lions
• Philadelphia Eagles at Tampa Bay Buccaneers

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