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Week 12 DVOA Ratings

Seattle's loss to Tampa Bay (covered here in Any Given Sunday) drops the Seahawks out of the top spot in DVOA and leaves us with one big smush on top of our ratings. Five teams are packed together within five percentage points, all far below any No. 1 team of years past. It all emphasizes the most important narrative of the 2016 season: there are no great teams.

Yes, there are teams with excellent win-loss records. Dallas is 10-1. New England and Oakland are 9-2. Yet there have been so many close games this year -- roughly 59 percent of games have been decided by a touchdown or less, which would be a new record -- that the difference between the league's top teams is smaller than in years past.