a wild card team is the 2 teams that are below the top 4 best teams. they do not have a grantee positions in the playoffs tho. so when a team is a wild card there stats for wins and loses are lower then the top four but higher then the rest of the teams.
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The two teams with the best records from the NFC and the AFC that didn't win their divisions still make the playoffs. These teams enter the playoffs as wild-card teams instead of division champions.
A wild card team in football is a team that does not win its own division but makes the playoffs on the basis of having the best overall record of the remaining nondivisional winning teams.