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Seven season-defining results from NFL Week 8; who goes up/down to week 9?
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Seven season-defining results from NFL Week 8; who goes up/down to week 9?

4) Baltimore’s hopes of earning the top seed in the AFC playoffs took a major blow. The Ravens looked like the best team in the AFC a week ago. Today, they look like a team that won’t come close to the kind of postseason advantage they had when last year’s playoffs started. It would be tough for the Ravens to catch Kansas City for the top seed as the Chiefs are 7-0 and Baltimore just fell to 5-3 after Sunday’s loss to Cleveland. However, the Ravens also lost to Kansas City in the season opener, meaning Baltimore will need the Chiefs to completely implode in the second half of the season to make up the four-game deficit. Put it this way: Chiefs head coach Andy Reid is more likely to pass on a free cheeseburger than Kansas City falls apart that way. The Bills still have a shot at the top spot as they play the Chiefs next month. The Texans are also 6-2 and are scheduled to face the Chiefs in Week 16. As for the Ravens, they still have the talent to reach the Super Bowl without having the best record in the conference. It just means they have to find a way to win on the road, probably at Arrowhead at some point, and with a defense that needs to improve immensely when January football rolls around.