Way-too-early NFL playoff picture, plus Dwyane Wade's viral statue reveal

10/28/2024 06:31 AM

The Pulse Newsletter 📣 | This is The Athletic's daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! Catch a Hail Mary today. Each week, I check the NFL playoff picture after Sunday's slate to get a feel for the terrain. The early-season version is always hilarious and frankly unfit to print, because it does not matter (remember when the Saints were 2-0?). But now, as Week 8 wanes, the data is real — and just as shocking. Let's go through potential seeding, with my biggest surprise from each conference … and then my biggest surprise...