As the Green Bay Packers sit idle this week along with three other NFL teams, the other 28 are in action, including each of the other three squads in the NFC North. Each of those teams squares off against a squad from the AFC East, with all three opponents holding records of .500 or better.
Those three games are Patriots at Bears, Vikings at Jets, and Lions at Dolphins, and the APC writers are projecting only the Vikings to be victorious this week. If those results hold up as expected, that would jump Minnesota from up a tie for second place in the NFC North (technically behind the Packers on tiebreakers at present) up into the lead at 4-2-1, with the Bears falling back to 3-3 and into third place behind Green Bay.