NFL Playoff Picture: Which Wild Card Weekend Winners Are Super Bowl Threats?

There is going to be a theme to the 2012 NFL playoffs and it has everything to do with experience.

Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, Drew Brees, Ben Roethlisberger and Eli Manning have all been there and done it before. And by "it" I mean winning the Super Bowl.

Of the 10 teams still alive in the playoffs, five of them have Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks.

Three of them will have played during Wild Card Weekend and those three quarterbacks are the biggest Super Bowl threats.

Saints (Defeated Detroit 45-28)

Drew Brees has the New Orleans offense playing at a different level. The Lions' secondary is certainly nothing to get excited about, but Brees made it look easy once again in their Wild Card matchup.

The Saints' trip to San Francisco next weekend is going to be a test, but no team is playing better football right now.

The 49ers are going to have to find a way to do something that nobody has been able to do since Week 8 of the season and New Orleans has scored over 40 points in each of their past four games.

They'll need all these points if they have to take on the Packers in the NFC Championship Game and all signs point to that as a very big possibility right now.

Giants (If They Defeat Atlanta)

If the Falcons "upset" the Giants at Snoopy Stadium today their run will end in Green Bay. The Falcons are a good team, but they won't be able to handle playing at Lambeau.

The Giants, on the other hand, don't care where they play.

New York already gave the Packers a run for their money once this season and now they're starting put things together defensively once and for all.

Eli Manning is also playing better than ever and Big Blue is talented enough to beat anyone.

Should they get past the Falcons this week, they'll be a threat to make another run.

Steelers (If They Defeat Denver)

Big Ben Roethlisberger and the Steelers have been to the Super Bowl three times in the past six years. Plain and simple, they know how to do it.

They won't be fazed by playing in Foxborough or anywhere else.

The Steelers will have to rely on something other than a run game, but they have the talent to beat anyone.