It just won't stop.
2023 NFL Playoffs: Sleeper wild-card teams with the best chance to make a deep postseason run.
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AFC
Chargers
Let's go back a year, when, on the Pick Six Podcast TikTok, I posted a video about the 49ers being the dark horse team in the playoffs, and my rationale mainly focused on the fact that San Francisco had an abnormal amount of stars/superstars -- Trent Williams, Fred Warner, Nick Bosa, Deebo Samuel, and George Kittle -- for a club not hosting a playoff game. They went 10-7 during the regular season, then upended the Cowboys in Dallas, the top-seeded Packers in Lambeau and held a late, fourth-quarter lead over the eventual Super Bowl champion Rams in the NFC title game.
I get similar vibes from this season's Chargers, another 10-7 club.
Los Angeles enters Saturday night's game in Jacksonville as a wild-card team with the following studs: Joey Bosa, Keenan Allen, Derwin James, Austin Ekeler, and Khalil Mack. Mike Williams appears to be OK after his injury scare in Week 18.
Oh yeah, and Justin Herbert. The driver of this team.
Now, I'm among those who feel the Chargers' use of Herbert can be likened to owning a Ferrari solely to drive through the school zone, but he's as physically capable to make outrageous -- and I mean OUTRAGEOUS -- throws as well as Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen. What makes the Chargers offense compelling beyond their incredibly gifted passer is the fact that the system drives him away from being boom or bust. He's completed over 65% of his passes in all three of his regular seasons to date and sent a career high completion rate of 68.2% in Year 3.