At this Point, does the Regular Season even matter?

[NYCSkin]

I think in general the regular season does matter with regard to obtaining home field which improves your chances of making it to the show. However, it seems that the gap between #2 and #6 in each conference is much narrower now. I would venture that for those seeds--how you are playing entering the playoffs plays a big role, as well as the draw you get in the playoffs. What makes the Giants run so interesting is they reversed their fortunes around two performances--the win at Buffalo and more importantly, the end of season loss versus the Pats. They got hot and played better each successive week in the playoffs.

I do agree that the Giants were lucky not to draw the Skins or the Hawks. In fact, I think if the Skins were the #5 seed and the Giants were the #6 seed--I have this sick feeling that it would have been the Skins in Glendale and not the Giants. I didn't think either of them were going to get by the Hawks at Qwest. Therefore, I suppose the regular season did have some merit in determining a bit of the fate of these two teams. A week 3 regular season win by the Gmen at the Skins may have dramatically changed the fortune of both teams since the Giants ended up drawing the easier wildcard opponent.