With the calendar page turned to December, it's not only time for all of the good boys and girls out there to put together their Christmas lists... it's also time for all of the football analysts out there to begin crafting their list of the most legitimate Super Bowl contenders. With just four weeks left in the regular season after Monday night, we're officially in that range where the contenders begin to separate themselves from the pretenders.
What's been interesting about this season specifically is that the divide between contenders and pretenders doesn't feel as pronounced as it usually does at this point in the calendar.