Week 9 delivered us to the midpoint of the 2021 NFL season, and that can mean only one thing. Week 10 is the start of the playoff push, those two months of the NFL calendar when we find out which plans worked, which ones failed and who, if anyone, was able to adjust on the fly.
The addition of a 17th regular-season game, a year after an expansion of the playoff field from 12 to 14 teams, changes the calculus a bit. Some of us, of course, are going to trip up on projecting teams to finish with records such as 11-6, 9-8 or 13-4.