Notes, Mostly Week 10, but one non-football update...

• Kevin Harvick qualified for the championship.

Now onto a messy week in football.

• Home teams were 8-5 so far, the over is 7-6, the average is about 48.5
• Another losing week for favorites against the number -- 5-7-1 so far.
• Team with more penalties is 7-3!  Another week like the two light fine blotters, though.
• Another week with zero Cliffhangers.  Have not had one in two full weeks of action now.

Several interesting stats:

• EIGHT non-competitive games this week.  Same number as Week 7 of 2017, but two fewer games, so far.  Week 2 of 2017 also had 8 in a full schedule.
• The last week with 9 non-competitive games:  Week 9, 2014.
• Since I have started tracking, I do not believe there has ever been two consecutive weeks without a single Cliffhanger.

Those were from my research.  The rest of this is from Pro Football Reference:

• Philadelphia lost a Last Chance Miss Sunday Night, 27-20 to Dallas.  The unique nature of this was that they committed zero penalties in the game.  This has only happened 13 times since the turn of the millenium.  Last team to do it was Cleveland, losing to Jacksonville 19-7, committing no penalties on November 19, 2017.
• Speaking of Cleveland:  They actually WON a non-competitive game today.  First time since December 13, 2015, beating San Francisco 24-10.
• For the second time this year, a touchdown or more favorite has lost by 31 points or more.  When the Jets, as seven point favorites, fell to Buffalo 41-10, they became only the 8th such team in NFL history.  Ironically, the Jets WON a game under these same conditions, Week 1 this year, vs. Detroit.

With two of the dregs playing Monday Night -- have fun, ESPN!!! -- now it's time to start looking at storylines.

AFC:

1.  Kansas City 9-1

2.  New England 7-3  (big loss today to Tennessee)

3.  Pittsburgh 6-2-1

4.  Houston 6-3

5.  LA Chargers 7-2

6.  Cincinnati 5-4  (Tennessee eliminated on 3-4 AFC record vs. Cincy's 3-2)

Tennessee, as of the end of Week 10, will be the only NFL team with a winning record eliminated from the playoffs.

NFC:

1.  LA Rams  9-1

2.  New Orleans 8-1 (will take the #1 seed with a win on LA's bye week, they have the HTH tiebreak)

3.  Chicago 6-3

4.  Washington 6-3 (NFC Record:  Chicago 4-1, Washington 6-2)

5.  Carolina 6-3

6.  Minnesota 5-3-1

Beginning to get a real Rams-Chargers vibe.  League needs to justify the NFL experiment out in LA, and if getting one to the Super Bowl won't do it, will getting BOTH there do it?