[Sylvanfan]

There's a few teams that some expected to be better who have disappointed like Denver, Green Bay, Tampa Bay and the Rams. So these teams plus Indy and Arizona who both ended up in a few too many prime time games might skew things. Pittsburgh is in a rebuild and that's another team with a big following.

The AFC East are all still in the playoff mix as is the NFC East as Corporate Jay pointed out.

Come season end it's likely Buffalo, Cincinnati, KC, Tennessee, Los Angeles, Miami, and Baltimore making the playoffs in the AFC, and none of them are really a surprise.

In the NFC Philly, San Francisco; Dallas , Minnesota are all in. Tampa is likely so it's just the last two wild cards who could be a surprise if Green Bay doesn't steal a spot