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Key players getting healthy
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Sometimes it's not who's hot, but who's healthy that matters in the playoffs. The fact that teams playing in the wild-card round must win an extra game to get to the Super Bowl makes it even more difficult to avoid injuries. Yet those teams have been successful: In seven of the last eight seasons, a Super Bowl qualifier played in the wild-card round.