NFL playoffs started with a pair of lopsided scores. On Saturday, the "underdog" Houston Texans overcame a slow start to post a commanding 32-12 win over the Los Angeles Chargers. For the nightcap, the Baltimore Ravens recorded a 28-14 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers that wasn't even as close as the final score would seem to indicate.

Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson strode into M&T Bank Stadium clad in all black Saturday night. It turned out to be an appropriate motif for the voodoo burial he was about to preside over. Baltimore entered its AFC wild-card game against the Steelers winners of four straight but with the annual questions it faces this time of year about whether Jackson’s regular-season brilliance would fail to carry over to the playoffs as it had so many times before.