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NFL playoff picks: Can Matthew Stafford dash Detroit's dream, help Rams upset Lions?
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Eighteen teams down, 14 still alive and kicking.
The NFL playoffs have arrived, the tournament to win Super Bowl 58 next month in Las Vegas finally initiating Saturday – and won't it be nice to focus attention on the football field instead of the vortex of coaching news occurring away from it ?
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The wild-card round of the 2023 postseason should be something, expected to include everything from frigid weather, a game that will be streamed on Peacock but won't be widely available on television (aside from local markets in Kansas City and Miami ), one coach, the Dallas Cowboys ' Mike McCarthy , facing his former team ( Green Bay Packers ) and perhaps the pièce de résistance – Los Angeles Rams QB Matthew Stafford and Detroit Lions QB Jared Goff simultaneously squaring off against their previous clubs Sunday night.
Who survives and advances? Who doesn't? Our experts' forecast:
NFL wild-card picks
( Odds provided by BetMGM . Access more BetMGM odds here .)
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NFL wild-card game-by-game predictions, picks, odds
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This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: NFL playoff picks, predictions: Can Stafford, Rams upset Lions?
