New England upset Buffalo on “Sunday Night Football,” and that means the AFC race is officially wide open.

The Bills were the last undefeated team in the AFC but now fall back into a large group of teams with one or two losses. It may be going too far to say the AFC is now the Steelers’ to lose, but I don’t think it is going too far to say they are the clear favorites in the AFC North.

The Steelers sit at 3-1, and all three of their AFC North opponents — the Browns, Ravens and Bengals — lost, which means they have a two-win lead in the loss column over the rest of the division. And it isn’t just that those three teams lost; all three teams look lost and perhaps in the beginning stages of a death spiral that leaves the Steelers clinching a division title earlier than any of the other divi

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