The Green Bay Packers are now the league’s only perfect team and the way they have been playing they might stay that way for a while. Most of their wins have been blowouts with the team that got the closest being the Panthers in week 2, they lost by just 7.
The Atlanta Falcons had to have a victory last week against Carolina and won by 14 despite being outgained for the contest. They are still behind the eight ball in the divisional and conference playoff picture and need to get away from their win one, lose one pattern after six games.
The Chicago Bears won on Sunday night against a horribly troubled Minnesota Vikings team.. At 3-3 they are staying alive in the early NFC playoff picture but they have a lot of work to do if they want to challenge the NFC North leaders Detroit and Green Bay.
The New York Jets entered the 2011-12 NFL season with their goal to finally get through to the Super Bowl after consecutive AFC Championship game appearances in head coach Rex Ryan’s first two years with the team.
With the presence of the defending Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers, and the emergence of the Detroit Lions, the Chicago Bears and Minnesota Vikings both find themselves looking up in the suddenly stacked NFC North.
When the New England Patriots fell to the Cleveland Browns in one of the most surprising results of last year’s regular season, it was simply an aberration for a team that went on to win 14 games and clinch the best record in the NFL.
This is a great matchup between the two most pleasant surprises in the league this season. San Francisco had absolutely no letdown last Sunday after coming back to beat Philadelphia the previous week. They destroyed a pretty good Tampa Bay team, winning by their largest margin since 1987 I believe.
Many though that the Falcons (2-3) would have an unstoppable offense after they moved up in the draft to take WR Julio Jones, but that has not been the case this season, as they only rank 14th in the league in passing yards per game and they are also having problems running the ball.
The Bucs (3-2) have an uphill battle this week against a red-hot Saints team that has won 4 straight, as Tampa was blown out last week and they will likely be without RB LeGarrette Blount and DT Gerald McCoy, who are both questionable with injuries.
If anyone previously doubted how much Peyton Manning meant to the Colts, they shouldn’t after the team’s start to this season.
The Texans are coming off a draining home loss against the Raiders, while the Ravens are coming off a bye week. Both of these teams have high aspirations for the 2011-2012 season.
Upstate meets the city in New Jersey when the Buffalo Bills pay a visit to MetLife Stadium this Sunday to take on the New York Giants in a rare in-state matchup between these two New York teams. Kick-off is slated for 1 p.m. (ET) and the game will be broadcast nationally on CBS.
The beleaguered Philadelphia Eagles will look to snap a rare four-game losing streak this Sunday afternoon when they square-off against the Washington Redskins at FedEx Field in a classic NFC East rivalry. Game time is slated for 1 p.m. (ET) and it will be broadcast nationally on FOX.
One week after the death of Al Davis, the Oakland Raiders (3-2) return home to take on the Cleveland Brown (2-2). To say that the already certifiably insane Raiders fans will be in a frenzy is a bit of an understatement.
How about them Detroit Lions? Few would have projected that the only team to match the perfect record of the defending Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers through the first four games of the season would be Detroit, but heading in to their return to Monday Night Football against their division rival Chicago Bears, that is exactly how the story has played out.
Four games in to the 2011-12 NFL season, the message is clear: The NFC road to the Super Bowl will go through Wisconsin.
