There were three big games starting late Sunday afternoon and moving into prime-time, and for the most part, the games lived up to the stakes. The NFC South powers each made a statement and the AFC West tightened. Let’s start our recap of NFL Week 11 with the wild finish that went down in Charlotte last night…
The winless teams get on the board, the bottom falls out of the bottom of the AFC playoff race and the NFC East continues to wallow in a hopelessness that makes mediocrity seem like a description overly kind. But the biggest development of NFL Week 10 was a pair of clutch road wins by a pair of teams whose stock is on the rise…
The AFC was supposed to be the weaker of the two conferences in the NFL this season. Maybe it will work out that way, but Week 3 provided precious little evidence of NFC superiority. Actually, check that—Week 3 provided zero evidence of NFC superiority, because the AFC swept all six inter-conference games.