CHARLOTTE -- The beautiful thing about Week 13 is that you can do the bulk of your overreacting before the weekend. Three games Thursday. One more on Friday. All won by underdogs, with major impact on the standings and the playoff races. First-place teams wobbling, upstarts ... uh ... upstarting? Plenty of overreaction fodder on the plate before Sunday even got here.

We will have five weeks left in the 2025 NFL regular season after Monday night's game , and some of the races that didn't look like they were going to be races have tightened up. Some teams we take for granted as playoff teams are going to have to fight their way in. Fact is, some of the things we thought were overreactions a month or so ago are turning out not to be.

Yeah, this is the good time of year, when the weather

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