The typical Sunday in the NFL features slates filled with tight games in the second half, back-and-forth lead changes and several comeback attempts.

That’s all part of the parity built into a league with a salary cap, a draft that rewards losing teams and a scheduling formula designed to give the best teams the toughest matchups.

Despite all of that, the drama was missing in a Week 8 that was one of the most lopsided the NFL has seen since the merger with the AFL in 1970.

The 13 games featured only one decided by single digits — a 39-38 win for the New York Jets against Cincinnati. That’s the first time since the final week of the 1970 season that only one game was decided by fewer than 10 points and down dramatically from the average of 8.7 games per week decided by single digits in th

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