Not so wild

 Raise a glass this day to Jayden Daniels and your Washington Commanders, because here's what they just did: They saved the weekend for the NASH-unal FOOT-ball League (as Howard Cosell used to call it).

No, really. They did.

What Daniels and the Commanders did, see, was beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 23-20 on a walk-off field goal -- and not just any walk-off field goal, but one that banked in off the goalpost. Scored 10 points in the last 10 minutes to rally from a 20-13 deficit, the Commanders did. Drove 51 yards in 10 plays to Zane Gonzalez' winning doink, as Daniels played like it wasn't the first playoff game of his career but, I don't know, the 15th. 

His numbers on the day: 24-of-35, 268 yards, two touchdowns, no interceptions. If he wasn't already the presumptive Rookie of the Year, he certainly is now.

And not just because of what he did Sunday. Because he and the Commanders (and the Buccaneers) were the only ones who did it.

Which is to say, wild-card weekend was pretty much a bust for the NFL, because everything besides Washington-Tampa was Blowout City. Every other game was a two-score game. Every other game was ... well, not wild.

It began with Justin Herbert throwing four picks as the Texans eviscerated his Chargers, 32-12. Then Derrick Henry ran for about 9,000 yards (OK, so only 186) as the Ravens drummed the Steelers out of the playoffs 28-14.

After that, Josh Allen and the Bills dispatched the Broncos with, um, dispatch, 31-7. Then it was Eagles 22, Packers 10. Finally, last night, a Vikings team that two short weeks ago was 14-1 got paved by Matthew Stafford and the 10-7 Rams, 27-9.

Not a lot of suspense in any of that, unfortunately. Without Commanders-Bucs, the biggest news out of Roger Goodell's fiefdom was Jerry Jones firing Mike McCarthy and the rumor mill immediately churning out Deion-to-Dallas grist.

(Which, frankly, the Blob is rooting for, being a longtime fan of chaos. Deion and Jerry occupying the same space?  Can you imagine what a car crash that would be? Everyone else in the organization would suffocate because those two galactic egos would suck the oxygen out of every room in the Jerry Dome.)

Anyway ...

Anyway, on to next weekend. Jerry can't fire his head coach again, so Goodell and Co. better hope for more walk-off doinks.