This season's NFC North is must-see TV and great fodder for NFL overreactions. Only three of the division's teams played in Week 7 (the Bears were on bye), and still the drama was as high as it gets.
The Lions and Vikings played each other in just the second game this year between two NFC North teams, which means a lot more goodness is coming. Detroit blew an 11-point fourth-quarter lead in Minnesota only to win it on a last-second field goal by Jake Bates. The Lions improved to 5-1, and the Vikings, with their first loss of the season, fell to 5-1. About four hours east of that game, in Green Bay, the Packers held C.J. Stroud to 86 passing yards and came back to beat the Texans on a late field goal by kicker Brandon McManus, who has been with the team since Wednesday.
I don't think it's an overreaction to say the best four teams in the NFC are in the North. Three of the four five-win teams in the conference play in that division (Washington beat Carolina for its fifth win, and Tampa Bay will play for its fifth on Monday night). I'm also not sure it's an overreaction to say whichever coach wins the division should win the Coach of the Year award. But I know for a fact we should be starting this week's overreactions -- where we judge a few potential takeaways as legitimate or irrational -- in the best division in the league.
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