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The NFL has gleefully informed us that with six weeks to go in the 2010 regular season, 19 teams are within a game of first place in their divisions -- with a canned quote from, of all people, Rex Ryan, who is said to have said: "Every team in the NFL is a good football team. It's a balanced league.''Rex presumably "said" that because, while his Jets are one of three 8-2 teams at the top (New England and Atlanta are the others), they haven't exactly been dominant, with wins in the final seconds or in overtime each of the last three weeks. In fact, they'd had games handed to them by teams with losing records, including one in Detroit because the Lions missed an extra point that was tried by Ndamukong Suh after Jason Hanson, the kicker, was hurt. The Jets never would have gotten to overtime without it.
The NFL's happy-face people also soft-pedal the two westernmost divisions.
In the AFC, while Kansas City leads at 6-4, the likely winner is 5-5 San Diego, which is making its annual late run after its also-annual snooze through the first half of the season. In the NFC, Seattle is at 5-5 in a division that still could be won by a sub-.500 team -- in two of their last three games, the Seahawks lost at home, 41-7 to the Giants after trailing 35-0 at halftime, and last week lost 34-19 in New Orleans.
In any event, here are what the real standings might look like in each conference -- likely playoff teams ranked 1-6.
Source: http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2010/11/24/dirty-dozen-super-bowl-contenders-coming-into-focus/
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