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On the Dolphins, Giants and Others Nobody Saw Coming

The MMQB's Peter King takes an early look at the slate of this year's Thanksgiving games.

Flurries outside my window in New York late Sunday night. It’s beginning to look a lot like the pennant race, with quite a few teams we didn’t see coming. Such as:

• The 6-4 Dolphins, winners of five straight, preventing the Patriots from clinching the division while New England trees still have leaves. Miami has a trustworthy late-game quarterback—finally—in Ryan Tannehill.

• The 5-5 Bucs, who will be a game out of first place in the NFC South on Thanksgiving.