1. Arizona. The Cardinals are survivalists. They played their last three games without their two best players, QB Kyler Murray and WR DeAndre Hopkins, and managed to win two of them to maintain the best record in the NFL at 9-2. Arizona now comes off its bye and expects both Murray and Hopkins back for its game in Chicago against the Bears. Last week: 12. Tampa Bay. Tom Brady continues his three-week trip down memory lane. Two weeks ago he played (and beat) the New York Giants, who faced Brady in two Super Bowls. Last week he played (and beat) the Indianapolis Colts, who faced Brady in two AFC title games. This week he plays the Atlanta Falcons, against whom Brady engineered the greatest comeback in Super Bowl Blank Jersey history, rallying the Patriots from 25 points down for their record sixth Lombardi Trophy. Last week: 23. Green Bay. Aaron Rodgers will go into the Hall of Fame as a pa ser. But dont sleep on his legs. The last nine times Rodgers has rushed for a touchdown the Packers have won a streak that dates back five years. That includes a 3-0 record this season with his rushing touchdowns against Pittsburgh, Chicago and the Rams. The last time Rodgers rushed for a touchdown and the Packers failed to win was Nov. 11, 2016 at Tenne see. Last week: 34. Baltimore. A great weekend for the coaching Harbaugh brothers spelled a miserable weekend for the state of Ohio. Jim and his Michigan Wolverines defeated Ohio State on Saturday to win the Big Ten East, then John and his Baltimore Ravens upended the Cleveland Browns Sunday to hold onto first place in the AFC North with an 8-3 record. Last week: 65. New England. Bill Belichick has taken nine teams to the Super Bowl. There were two constants Tom Brady and scoring defense. Brady scored points, and the defense didnt allow any. Eight of his nine Super Bowl teams ranked in the Top 10 in scoring defense, including all six of his Super Bowl champions. Gleyber Torres Jersey Those champs led the NFL in scoring defense in both 2003 and 2016 and finished second in 2004. His current team no longer has Brady, but that great defense remains. New England has allowed the second fewest points in the NFL on the way to an 8-4 record. Last week: 96. Kansas City. The Chiefs were among the NFLs best at ball security the last two seasons en route to a pair of AFC championships and a Lombardi Trophy. They were a plus-6 (takeaways minus giveaways) in 2020 and a plus-8 in 2019. With Patrick Mahomes at quarterback, the Chiefs didnt beat themselves. But that hasnt been the case this season. Kansas City leads the NFL with 22 turnovers this after committing only 16 all of last season. They are a minus-7 on the season heading into a first-place showdown with the Denver Broncos Sunday. Last week: 77. Buffalo. If the Bills ever return to another Super Bowl, they will have a quarterback ready for the challenge of the NFCs best team. Josh Allen has pa sed for four touchdowns in a game six times in his career. Four of them have come against NFC opponents. He burned both Washington and New Orleans for 4-TD games this season and both the Rams and Seahawks in 2020. Last Paul O'Neill Jersey week: 128. Cincinnati. The Bengals have resumed their chase of the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC South by relying more on the legs of Joe Mixon than the arm of Joe Burrow. In the last two games, they scored victories over Las Vegas and Pittsburgh to move to 7-4, Burrow failed to throw for 200 yards either time and to sed just two TD pa ses. Mixon carried 30 times for 123 yards and two touchdowns against the Raiders, then carried 29 times for 165 yards and another two scores against the Steelers. He has a TD in eight consecutive games and now has 13 on the season. Last week: 139. LA Rams. Matthew Stafford was an MVP candidate through the first eight weeks of the season with his 22 touchdown pa ses to propel the Rams to the top of the NFC with a 7-1 record. But he has been limited to a single TD pa s in each of his last three games and Los Angeles has lost all three to fall two games back of Arizona in the NFC West. And the Cardinals own the tie-breaker, having handed the Rams their only lo s in those first eight weeks. Last week: 4 10. Tenne see. The Rams arent the only team in a bit of a tailspin. The Titans sat atop the NFL after 10 weeks with a 8-2 record but have since dropped two in a row to Houston and New England. QB Ryan Tannehill has been in the same rut as Stafford. He has thrown a single touchdown pa s in each of those four games. With two-time NFL rushing champion Derrick Henry sidelined indefinitely with a broken foot, the Titans need more from Tannehill. Last week: 511. Dallas. Ezekiel Elliott has been slowed by a knee injury. It shows. Since the bye, his rushing production over a five-game stretch has been on a continuous slide 60, 51, 41, 32 and, finally, 25 yards in that Thanksgiving lo s to the Raiders. He has scored nine touchdowns this season but eight of them have come at home. Dallas plays its next three games on the road New Orleans, Washington and New York DJ LeMahieu Jersey (Giants). And the Cowboys hit the road for New Orleans Thursday night without head coach Mike McCarthy, who is in Covid protocol. Last Week: 8 12. Indianapolis. The Eagles may want to revisit their offseason decision to dump QB Carson Wentz on the Colts. Philadelphia has only 13 TD pa ses this season and ranks 30th in the NFL in pa sing. Wentz has thrown 21 touchdown pa ses. The Eagles have to sed eight interceptions, Wentz just five. Wentz has the Colts in the playoff hunt at 6-6 while the Eagles are spinning their wheels near the bottom of the NFC East at 5-7. Its a pa sing league and the Colts can. The Eagles cant. Last week: 1013. San Francisco. Rookie RB Elijah Mitchell is heating up and so are the 49ers. In his last five games he has rung up 100 yards in three games and 90-plus in another. He rushed for 133 yards against Minnesota last weekend to help extend San Franciscos winning streak to three games and move the 49ers back into the playoff hunt with a 6-5 record. Last week: 1714. Las Vegas. The NFC East has done its best to keep the AFC West race close. The NFC East has played 14 games against the AFC West this season and lost 11 of them. The Chiefs are 4-0 against the East, the Broncos 3-1 and the Chargers and Raiders each 2-1. The Broncos, Chiefs and Raiders have all Adam Ottavino Jersey beaten the NFC East-leading Cowboys and the Chargers lost to Dallas on a 56-yard field goal by Greg