Week 9 saw the top three teams in last week’s rankings — the Buffalo Bills, Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles — dragged to deep waters by underdog teams. Philadelphia and Kansas City eventually righted their ships en route to ugly wins. Buffalo wasn’t as lucky.
The Bills were 20-17 losers against an ascending New York Jets team that coerced Josh Allen into a pair of costly interceptions. New York got enough from Zach Wilson and a punishing defense to pull off one of this year’s biggest upsets.
That drop didn’t hurt Allen’s team too severely, but it did suggest the gap between the AFC and NFC’s ruling class isn’t as large as we may have thought. Here’s how we’ve got all 32 franchises sorted out as the NFL crashes beyond the halfway mark of the 2022 regular season.