All season, we have espoused the weekly Power Poll to the common NFL belief that you are what your record says you are. Today, that ends. Today, as the playoff field starts to fill, we look beyond qualifying for the dance and look at teams that can go the distance. And playoff football is different in every regard.
There comes a point in the chase for the Lombardi Trophy that every team will have to do each of these three things:
1) Make one tough defensive stand;
2) Convert one tough third-and-4 to ice a game;
3) Rally with 90 seconds left and down three.