Breaking Down Each NFL Division Race After Week 5

October 10, 2016   ·   Justis Mosqueda   ·   Jump to comments

Don't be alarmed, but we're about one-third of the way through the regular season with Week 5 in the books, outside of Monday Night Football. That means, like it or not, the playoff race is starting to take shape.
Over the last three years, 21 of the 24 teams to make the playoffs have had double-digit wins, meaning that hitting the 10-win mark is near mandatory for a postseason shot. Already, we have a team with five losses and five others with four losses, making those squads' margin of error for the remainder of the season near impossible to keep up with if they want to make a winter run in the playoffs.
With that in mind, we'll go division by division, breaking down what the landscape for each of the NFL's eight pieces looks like going into Week 6 of the season.
Which teams are in the driver's seat? Which teams are a lap or two behind? Which teams might rise? Which teams might fall?
We'll go over all of those questions as we sort through the league from a big-pic...

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