You kind of have to feel for Houston.  A bastard child of the AFC all its short life, the Texans are actually turning into sombodies this year despite several key injuries (Andre Johnson, Ahman Green).  Although there’s a good chance they will struggle to a .500 record and finish dead last in their division, this is a team who would be playoff bound in the NFC.

These teams will end up beating up on each other and putting tallies in the loss column (yes, even for the Colts).  Do they then have a chance to send more than one team to the postseason?  Absolutely.  Even though it’s a tough division to claw one’s way out of (similar to how people thought the NFC East would be last year), and even though there are playing their games in the certainly more brutish and tough band of teams in the AFC, this division will have something to say about the wild card race.  In fact (you can take this to the bank if you’d like, the repercussions of me being incorrect are extremely minor), I contend that both the wild card spots will go to the AFC South.  That’s right, 3 of 4 teams will be playoff bound.
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