NFL Divisional Playoffs: My Top 10 CBS Contemplations

10. Good. Now we can proceed with quality football without the nauseating sideshows of "Who Dat?", "Tebow Time!" and "Discount Double Check."

9. Congrats Green Bay Packers, you are the first NFL team to lose your first playoff game after winning 15+ regular-season games. Suddenly the Cowboys' loss to the Giants after that 13-3 season in 2007 doesn't feel so bad does it? And that 17-point bitch slap was the largest ever in a home playoff loss by a defending Super Bowl champ.

8. Packers' receivers dropped six passes. The time off at the end of the season never seems to be an advantage does it? More and more sports isn't about the best team over four months, but merely the hottest team over four weeks.

7. Good for Vernon Davis. Called out and sent off by Mike Singletary in a memorable 2008 incidnet, the talented tight end is getting the last laugh. Davis caught the improbable touchdown with 9 seconds left to beat the Saints, while Singletary and his "no nonsense" approach are now coaching linebackers for the horrible Minnesota Vikings.

6. How to win a playoff game: The Ravens committed zero turnovers and zero penalties in beating the Texans.

5. Inexcusable for Green Bay to allow the Giants' Hakeem Nicks to be that open for the half-ending Hail Mary touchdown. Who'da thunk an even worse secondary than the Cowboys played for the team with 15 wins.

4. In one of the best playoff games I've ever watched, the Saints scored 18 points in the fourth quarter – 15 in the final 4 minutes – and somehow lost to a team quarterbacked by Alex Smith.

3. I don't love Tom Coughlin and/or Bill Belichick, but not sure I'm ready for the hype of a "HarBowl" between brothers Jim and John. But, let's admit it, the Harbaughs are considerably better than the Ryans.

2. In a game in which his team fell behind 14-0 early and was forced into catch-up passing game early, Tim Tebow completed 9 throws against the Patriots. If his success was divine intervention, what was Saturday night's epic failure? I watch sports to be entertained, hopefully amazed. But if I'm proven right in the process, so be it.

1. Turnovers. After a weekend watching the best eight teams in the NFL that's the main difference in winning in losing. Between heroes and goats. We can break down Xs and Os and cue twinkling pianos for inspirational personal tales all we want, but football is all about turnovers. The Saints, Broncos, Texans and Packers combined to turn the ball over 14 times this weekend for a minus-10 margin. Done.