NFC North is Best Division in NFL

Each team in the NFC north is a playoff contender

By Joshua Walls

The NFC north is shaping up to be quite the power division that many experts predicted it would be at the beginning of the season

Every team, even the worst in the division, the Detroit Lions, is playing with a chip on their shoulder.

Week after week, fans are witnessing competitive and thrilling play from their beloved franchises.

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The Chicago Bears, who sit on top of the division, are setting the standard high for the rest of the NFL.  These Bears come in week in and week out on a mission to be the best and they certainly showed their poise this week when they destroyed the tenacious Tennessee Titans by 31 points.  The Bears scored a franchise record of 28 points in one quarter.  This was certainly an unbalanced game.  One ESPN analyst referred to the game as “a one sided affair.” 

The next team in this ridiculously loaded conference is the Green Bay Packers.  Cheesehead nation is in awe about the performance of their beloved Packers throughout the last few weeks.  Since the teams rocky start at the beginning of the season, they have been on a four game winning streak.  This weekend, they certainly showed the rest of the division that they are competing for that top spot.  Rodgers’ performance of 216 passing yards and four touchdowns certainly yelled out MVP.

The next best team in the division is the Adrian Peterson-led Minnesota Vikings.  Chris Gates made some really great points about this team, but the one that stood out the most was when he said, “The Minnesota Vikings got things off to a nice start in their game against the Seattle Seahawks, and they did it by. . .what else. . .giving the ball to Adrian Peterson.”  Peterson left his fingerprints all over the ball during Sunday’s matchup against the Seahawks.

The worst team in the division, the Detroit Lions, are even beginning to have some of that NFC North luck rub off on them as the post am embarrassing 31-14 win over Jaguars.   The viscous Lions were able to reach .500 after a challenging few weeks.  The Lions looked to be a rejuvenated bunch after Sunday’s game, but lets see how rejuvenated they really are when they take their talents to Soldier field next week to play the top gun Bears.

Overall, the NFC North is looking like the best division in football, but we will see how good they really are in a couple of weeks when playoff time is near.  However, it is almost a guarantee that NFL fans everywhere will see at least three of these teams in the playoffs.