Looking at each team's remaining schedules.  I think New Orleans will win the division with a 7-9 record even after watching them lose tonight against the Ravens.  

 

Atlanta does have a leg up by being 4-0 in the division so far, but their remaining schedule is brutal.  Their next two are against Arizona and Green Bay and that's followed up by Pittsburgh, yikes! I give them a shot against Pittsburgh, but they shouldn't be favored going in to any of those games.  It's probably going to come down to the last two weeks of the season where they close out against New Orleans and Carolina.  

 

The division games being back loaded onto the schedule for all teams a few years ago added a lot of value to the excitement of December football.  I think they should move all division games to either the final 6 weeks or if that's not feasible maybe mixing them all in to the last 8 games of the season.  I realize that would favor northern teams, but it would keep more teams in it later into the season which would increase the overall excitement.  And we had a team once that went into cold weather conditions and imposed our will on a regular basis, so it's not a definite advantage for those teams.   Those were the days...

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