But you know what the best thing is? There is no dominant team in the playoffs this year.
huh? Colts?
They "just win", but that doesn't normally mean "dominant" like say the Bears defense in some aging SB run (and I don't mean the Bears-Colts SB). It's differently constructed anyways.
The issues though is that the Colts have been in this position before, and I doubt it helps the Colts in the long run. Last time Colts had a good seed, Chargers and Steelers have beaten them.. and the Chargers are arguably the most dangerous of them all (I don't trust their coach, but that's not entirely a bad thing). The year the Colts won is when Peyton was playing every game and had no bye week.
The Bengals are the biggest pretenders out of this group, unfortunately. They lost games against the Broncos, Texans, Raiders, Vikings, Chargers, and Jets. Six of the ten wins are against the AFC North, and they only significant team they beat one could argue are the Packers.
Bengals lost on a fluke play to the Broncos (ball bounced the Broncos way).
Chargers are on a 12 game winning streak...
Vikings were actually not sucking at the time..
Raiders beat 4 competitive teams this game, this group includes the Steelers (who are not going back to back), Eagles (go figure, Eagles are inconsistent), and the Broncos (who couldn't beat the Chiefs to even get a chance in the playoffs... and started the season 6-0).
I'm not saying that the Bengals are great, in fact I have more questions of them than the Cowboys. They seem very much like the AFC North division winners of the 05-06 season (the season the Steelers won), except one could argue that hit to Carson Palmer really did their season in.
But you know what the best thing is? There is no dominant team in the playoffs this year. Everyone has a weakness, which means we could very well have two 5 vs 6 seed championship matchups. But honestly, I'm not sure the Eagles, Packers, Jets, and Ravens could survive that long. 
A team has to get really hot and fast... kinda like last year's SB run for the Cards.
The Eagles could do something, but there's something about McNabb that makes him fail when it matters.
The Packers are a much better team than most people are giving them credit for. Slow start and being pwned by the Vikings surely does change
one Vikings fan impression of said team. Although, the swiss cheese game @ the Steelers were pretty epic.
The Jets have issues at QB, despite having a great defense and running game overall. He's just too turnover prone and he didn't spent enough time in college to deserve this kind of pub IMO. I believe even Flacco and Ryan spent lots more time as starting QB than Sanchez (1 year @ USC).
The Ravens do not have the same defense that Rex Ryan ran (teams can definitely pass on the Ravens).. in fact the Jets would be that (well, obviously). The team can do stuff, but it has the very huge tendency to self-implode via penalties. I've seen highlights of them losing to whatever team (Steelers, Bengals) on games where they should have won outright, but didn't for the aforementioned reason.
My entire point is that a lot of the irrational statements made here do not always correctly put a game a team wins or loses into the proper context.
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