With the Monday night game still to play, it's safe to say that the Cincinnati Bengals having a shot to win the AFC North is just one of many weird subplots in the NFL playoff picture.
Once the Bengals lost in Week 11 to the Steelers at Pittsburgh and again to the Patriots the next game, the postseason seemed hopeless. Now that the wheels are falling off for aging legend Aaron Rodgers after Sunday's awful 26-7 home loss, the division is suddenly for the taking.
Joe Burrow pretty much prophesied this when he said the North was "wide-open" in his first presser post-turf toe surgery.