Playoffs focus is on QBs.(Brief Article)

One series ... one call ... one play. As we head into the best part of the NFL season, the team that is to hold the Lombardi Trophy is the one that will rise when others falter--at the crucial moment in each contest. It is wholly unlikely a game will rest on the outcome of a play like the Titans' breathtaking kickoff return against the Bills last year. No, it will be a play when a quarterback catches a safety cheating just a step on a coverage or a linebacker being so certain where the ball will go that he ignores all his reads to throw his body into what should have been a tiny hole.

"This has been the most entertaining, unusual and unpredictable NFL season I can remember," says senior writer Paul Attner, the author of the main story in this week's NFL playoff preview section. "And there's no reason the playoffs should be any different Almost always, you can point to one team and say, "Those are the bullies that everyone is trying to beat.' But not so this time. There is no dominant team. So when coaches say the race to the ...