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There are three teams at the top of the heap in New England, Cincinnati, and Denver, and a fourth team – Indianpolis? Houston? – with a record below .500 but guaranteed a playoff spot because somebody has to win that awful division. There are then a gaggle of teams at the bottom of the pile and are already virtually, out of playoff contention.
Then there come the group of teams Oakland finds themselves lumped in with – Pittsburgh, Buffalo, and the New York Jets – who are in a pitched battle for the AFC’s two wild card slots.