Week 9 marks the end of the first half of the 2025 NFL regular season—and so far the season has gone exactly like everyone expected.

If by everyone you mean not one person.

Sure, there have been teams who have followed the script. The Buffalo Bills and Detroit Lions have played well. The Cleveland Browns and New Orleans Saints have not.

But there has certainly been no shortage of madness in the NFL. The NFL's best team after eight weeks is the Indianapolis Colts—that is not a misprint. Multiple playoff teams from a year ago entered Week 8 with losing records.

And for the icing on the chaos cake, the Miami Dolphins rolled the Atlanta Falcons on the road, and the New York Jets erased a double-digit deficit in the fourth quarter to earn their first win of 2025—also away from home.

In what has been a weekly occurrence this year, the league's pecking order got the snowglobe treatment in Week 8, and Bleacher Report NFL Analysts Gary Davenport, Kris Knox, Maurice Moton and Brent...