This is the first week all season that the Fine Fifteen is really fun. Most of the season, it’s been formulaic. Fill in the Patriots and the Panthers and the Broncos and Bengals and the Cardinals near the top, and then fill in the rest with the lesser contenders.
But now it gets fun. The Patriots, at least temporarily, have hit a wall. The Steelers and Seahawks, suddenly, look like some combination of the ‘85 Bears and the ‘07 Patriots. So this is likely to be the first week all season that the majority of you, and not just 30 or 40 percent, seriously question my sanity.