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NFL Playoffs: MVPs and LVPs of Wild Card Weekend

By Daniel Tran

Jan 4, 2015; Indianapolis, IN, USA; Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck (12) before the 2014 AFC Wild Card playoff football game against the Cincinnati Bengals at Lucas Oil Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Brian Spurlock-USA TODAY Sports
Jan 4, 2015; Indianapolis, IN, USA; Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck (12) before the 2014 AFC Wild Card playoff football game against the Cincinnati Bengals at Lucas Oil Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Brian Spurlock-USA TODAY Sports /
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Jan 4, 2015; Arlington, TX, USA; Dallas Cowboys kickoff after scoring in the second quarter against the Detroit Lions in the NFC Wild Card Playoff Game at AT&T Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Matthew Emmons-USA TODAY Sports /

The NFL Playoffs kicked off this past weekend with some impressive (and not so impressive) performances.

Turnovers, scrutinized calls, and freezing temperatures: It must be playoff football again.   The NFL Playoffs began last Saturday with an Arizona Cardinals team limping into the playoffs with a third string quarterback facing off against a sub-.500 Carolina Panther team and ended with a thriller in Dallas that has a lot of the nation screaming, “how ‘bout them Cowboys?”

The final whistle on Sunday may have come with some controversy, but the fact remains that the NFL playoffs have arrived and the games that truly matter are being played.

Although there were not four overtime games or scores that resembled anything that approached a college basketball final tally, playoff football is playoff football and this unpredictable one-and-done format has brought out the best in some teams while other teams succumbed to the pressure. The NFL Playoffs are where true contenders are born and pretenders are exposed.

No champion has been crowned yet, but there were a couple of performances that were championship caliber that have put some teams one game closer to fulfilling their title aspirations while other performances have left teams conducting exit interviews and watching the rest of the playoffs from home. Before the NFL moves forward to the Divisional Playoff Round, here are the MVPs and LVPs of Wild Card Weekend.

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