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I think the Jets have shown how to beat teams who rely on the passing game with highly intelligent QBs. You do NOT blitz like crazy, Manning and Brady are too smart and will have eaten them alive. Instead they flood the secondary and take away the reads. It helps a lot that the Jets have 2 burners at corner, and while I don't like Cromartie based on his performance in last year's playoffs, the guy is fast and can cover. Then use the rest of the secondary to fill the intermediate routes and that leaves only really short stuff. It will be interesting to see if the pattern holds. The Steelers are the smashmouth team they have been in the past, but Mendenhall will be a bigger handful than anyone Indy or the Pats had.

The Bears are interesting because of how absolutely putrid their offensive line was earlier in the year. I don't know if the fix was guys getting healthy, Mike Tice doing a great job getting them coached up or Mike Martz adjusting his play calling to adapt for the personnel they have (or all of the above) but this team looks much different that the mid-season team that was getting Cutler destroyed.
And the Pack are on fire, but I'm not 100% sold on them. I think they should win, but this is the same team that Detroit shut down 6 weeks ago. It almost seems like the offense needed a week without Rodgers (the game against the Pats) to realize that they were a pretty good unit, and since Rodgers has gotten back they are all on the same page.
Should be 2 really good games next week.