The Rams and Chiefs both lost, leaving the Saints all alone with the league’s best record – at least until tomorrow.
Here’s one you could have won some coin on: after 15 weeks, the Cleveland Browns still have an (admittedly remote) chance at the playoffs!
The NFC is wide open. The Bears, Saints and Rams are in, but six teams are fighting down to the wire for the other three slots.
Over in the AFC, the Chiefs and Chargers will take one division and the top-seeded wild card. It’s just a matter of which is which. The Texans look quite safe, barring an unlikely concatenation of events. Their magic number is one to clinch the division. The Pats’ magic number is also one to win their division, and their last two games are home in Foxboro against weak teams, so they seem safe. The other two slots, the AFC North and the second wild card slot, are completely up for grabs. There is a team at 8-5-1, three teams at 8-6, and two other teams not yet mathematically eliminated. At this moment the resurgent Colts seem to have the hot hand, having won 7 of 8, including two great wins over Dallas and Houston the last two weeks. (They crushed the Cowboys 23-0.)