81.   Four NFL playoff teams Saturday and Sunday are in what are fittingly called wild-card games.

82.   Four playoff teams could emerge from here.

83.   Granted, the Lions were a playoff team last season and the Jets are a club that is trying to learn success.

84.   He also has maintained that the Celtics will be a definite playoff team in his third season, not his second.

85.   He assembled a wild-card playoff team when he thought he had a Super Bowl contender.

86.   Green knows that the Vikings have little time to regroup, especially since their season begins with four playoff teams from a year ago.

87.   Had the Giants faced the Packers, they would have been seen not just as another playoff team, but as a team contending for a title.

88.   He had left the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a playoff team that had become disenchanted with him, and was trying to regain credibility, regain confidence.

89.   He built the Clippers into a playoff team with a bunch of non-stars.

90.   He represents the sort of pick-and-roll steadiness that made the Jazz a perennial playoff team.