SI.com's Don Banks on the NFC North:

Now that Minnesota has been exposed as a first-degree fraud, who on earth is going to win the NFC North? We checked with the league and somebody has to.

Even though the season is only two weeks old, all four teams already have been roughed up pretty good at least once: Minnesota by both Tampa Bay and Cincinnati, Green Bay by Detroit, Detroit by Chicago, and ... hey, wait a minute, what about the Bears? Chicago lost 9-7 with honor at Washington and drilled Detroit at home on Sunday.

In this division, that makes Lovie Smith's hard-luck guys a prohibitive favorite to wear the crown.

It's still early, but that's pretty amazing.