Super Bowl 2012: Red-Hot Teams You Won't See in Indianapolis

With a fresh dose of Tim Tebow heroics, as well as multiple impressive defensive performances, the 2012 NFL Playoffs has boasted a plethora of excitement thus far.

The divisional round of the 2012 NFL Playoffs is now set to get underway. The New Orleans Saints and other impressive teams come out of the Wild Card Round to meet with up with four of easily the best teams in football.

Yet, it's these streaking teams that will be all but gone come Super Bowl time.

These are the three teams that are bound to be eliminated from Super Bowl contention despite their impressive runs as of late.

New Orleans Saints

Yes, it's true.

The hot, streaking team in New Orleans is soon to face defeat in the 2012 NFL Playoffs.

QB Drew Brees and company have been playing arguably the best football in the league, currently on a nine-game win streak and sure to move the team's streak to 10 with a win over the 49ers in the upcoming divisional round matchup.

The Saints have been doing it with a need for speed style of play, putting up major point numbers with the offense and doing just enough defensively. The team has scored at least 40 points in five of the nine games in the win-streak and goes into the divisional round with four consecutive 40-point games.

Talk about something impressive to watch.

However, at the end of the day the Saints will stand no match for the Green Bay Packers, who are arguably the strongest football team in the NFL. The Packers are 15-1, started the season 13-0, and are riding the play of QB Aaron Rodgers and a dynamic offensive group.

Expect the Saints luck to run out in the NFC championship, falling short to the Packers at Lambeau.

New York Giants

The New York Giants have brought the heat as of late, as a team that showed little to no life midway through the season made a postseason push that left the Dallas Cowboys nation in shock.

Winners of four of its last five games, the Giants make a strong case that they have what it takes to take down the Green Bay Packers. Yet when it's all said and done, the luck in New York will run out against a Packers offense that will have QB Eli Manning trying to play catch-up early.

The one loss for the Packers came to a solid, underrated defense in Kansas City where the team would score just 19 points. In all games where the team scored 20-plus points, the Packers were 15-0.

The Giants have had an impressive run, yet unlike 2009, the playoff run will end in this divisional round game. Expect a hotter, more dynamic offense to have Manning throwing the ball plenty early and the interceptions to pile up. Manning has already thrown one interception this postseason and threw 16 during the regular season.

A Packers team that took down the Giants 38-35 is set to take care of business at home.

Baltimore Ravens

Fortunately for these Ravens, the team takes on what might be the most impressive defensive unit in football at M&T Bank where the team is 8-0 this season.

Unfortunately for these same Ravens, a win for the birds sends them to New England to face the Patriots, where Brady and company are 7-1.

The Ravens are essentially a different team when forced to travel away from Baltimore. The four road losses this season were to the following teams: Tennessee, Jacksonville, Seattle and San Diego.

With the exception of the Chargers, who simply underachieved on the year, the Jaguars, Titans and Seahawks are losses that simply have no place for a team as talented as these Ravens are.

Playing in Foxborough will be the key difference in the AFC championship. Expect Tom Brady and company to dismantle an inconsistent road team.