The defending conference champions have a shot at the top seed after overcoming a 17–0 deficit to Tom Brady. Plus, the Lions believed in themselves, and now other teams do, too, and why a first-year Eagle is surprised with the team’s success.
We’ve been over it in the column, and in conversations with Joe Burrow over the past couple of years—the old Bengals (or Bungles, as they were called locally during a pretty low point) are dead and gone. And gone with them is any sort of sky-is-falling, other-shoe-is-dropping mentality.
In its place is what we saw, again, Sunday.