Payne's Perspective: Playoff Beast Mode

Random thoughts on the wild-card weekend parade ...

Cincinnati at Houston

• I'm not sure Andy Dalton is ever going to be more than a league-average quarterback. Too many of his throws were off - granted some should have been caught - but on a few deep balls to A.J. Green the throws were clearly off. Had two of those throws been on the money, they easily would have been touchdowns. Neither quarterback threw a touchdown but each threw a bad interception in their half of the field.

• Speaking of A.J. Green, it was odd he wasn't even targeted until the third quarter ...

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