Week 9 of the 2025 NFL season is in the books, and it was a week of upsets. The Panthers handed the Packers their second loss of the season, and the Steelers did the same to the Colts. The former is The Big Thing topic for this week's column -- how do the Packers keep suffering these embarrassing losses? -- but there's a key nugget about the latter in the Next Ben Stats section, too.

Every Tuesday, I'll spin the previous week of NFL action forward, looking at what the biggest storylines mean and what comes next. We'll seek measured reactions to everyone's overreactions, celebrate the exciting stuff that nobody is appreciating and highlight what you might have missed Sunday and Monday. There will be film. There will be stats (a whole section of them). And there will be fun.

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