What team is in first place in the National Football Conference West Division?
The four teams that comprise this division are all within one game of each other, but the team at the top may have been most people’s last choice to be leading the NFC West. It is not the San Francisco 49ers or Los Angeles Rams, or the team that opened their season with three straight wins, the Seattle Seahawks.
Nope, the NFC West leader is the Arizona Cardinals.
Their five wins include triumphs over the Rams, 49ers, Los Angeles Chargers and Chicago Bears, all teams most power ratings would have ranked higher than Johnathan Gannon’s Cardinals. In other words, the Cardinals are better than most people think.
But do you think Arizona is going to be atop this division when the playoffs start in January?
I don’t.