With the halfway point of the season in our rearview mirrors and every team in the league having just seven or fewer games to play, it’s time to get serious about the questions of which are the best teams in the NFL and which are the worst.
Recent history has taught us that it will be the hot team come late December and January that makes a run all the way to Houston in February, so certainly every team within a game of .500 is still in the race.
But it seems clear right now that the Seattle Seahawks, Dallas Cowboys, New England Patriots or Kansas City Chiefs are the best in the NFL.