I'm doing something here that never, ever works, and that is predicting what will happen in the NFL playoff bracket by running through the entire thing.
Yes: I'm picking winners for the six wild-card games, the four subsequent divisional-round contests, the two conference championships and then Super Bowl LVIII.
That's 13 game previews, seven of which are for games that might never actually occur. Will this be the actual bracket? No. Do not waste your time getting mad.
If we treat my chances of getting each game right as a coin flip, the odds of me making 13 correct picks are 8,192-to-1. And if I get even one wrong in the early rounds, the seedings are thrown off, which would ruin the entire bracket I've predicted. Subscribe: «The Bill Barnwell Show» Instead, I hope you'll treat this as a thoughtful look into what might transpire if and when these teams do match up in the playoffs.