But the AFC once looked incapable of producing seven postseason teams with winning records. Now it looks like it won't be a cake walk to earn one of the three wild card berths. With 11 weeks of action in the books and seven left to play,

I guess the window was still open after all. Probably wide open in fact. Remember all that preseason talk of how the Buffalo Bills' window for winning had closed, how it was over for them, how the roster turnover would change the team's fortunes and that they couldn't get past those losses on the field in the playoffs and on the roster?

It was critical that the Los Angeles Rams beat the New England Patriots on Sunday after suffering a disappointing and deflating loss to the Miami Dolphins the week prior. They got the job done with a 28-22 victory,