NEW YORK — The NFL playoffs are poised to look pretty weird. Patrick Mahomes will not appear in the postseason next month. Nor will Joe Burrow or Dak Prescott. Lamar Jackson is dangerously close to joining them, and he may not be healthy enough to play next weekend as his Baltimore Ravens (7-8) attempt to keep their dwindling playoff hopes alive. The odds are even worse for the Detroit Lions, who fell to 8-7 on Sunday, less than a year after they finished 15-2 and entered last postseason as the NFC’s No. 1 seed. “All we can do is control what we can control,” Jackson said after Sunday night’s 28-24 loss to the New England Patriots, a game in which he left during the...
