... one sure thing to be had in the AFC playoff picture. Philip Rivers and the Chargers look pretty comfortable at the front of the pack in the AFC West, but even they are still vulnerable. Elsewhere, the conference's best two teams by record (the 9-2 Patriots and Jets) are wrestling for control of the East, and either Tom Brady or Mark Sanchez could well be watching the postseason from home, given their tough remaining schedules and the competition for those berths.

Still, with two and a half months' worth of information, it is pretty safe to say that we know who the best of the best in the AFC really are, and who are the pretenders who will fade down the stretch. Of course, the dregs of the conference (Buffalo, Cincinnati, Denver) are painfully...

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