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Peter Schrager
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Every week, FOX Sports NFL Insider Peter Schrager opens his notebook and opines on three of the biggest storylines around the league. Here are his takes heading into Week 9, including a four-team division battle that will supply plenty of intrigue down the stretch.
The Wild, Wide-Open NFC West
The NFC North is the best division in football this year. The NFC West is the most intriguing. It’s as if the season starts right now, and in a race to the finish, each team has a different path to a division title and a different storyline to that opening-round home playoff game.
I look at the Arizona Cardinals, winners of two walk-off games in a span of six days, and they’re currently on top of the NFC West standings at 4-4 and 2-0 in the division. In Sunday’s dramatic win over the Miami Dolphins, Kyler Murray looked like an elite NFL quarterback and someone worthy of the No. 1 overall pick status that he bestows. And yet, the story has been the Cardinals’ offensive line. Unheralded, unknown, and relatively under the radar, Arizona’s O-Line has been a brick wall. They haven’t given up a sack for the last 3 games. It’s the best we’ve seen from their line since the 1975 season when the team played in St. Louis and Jim Hart was handing the rock off to Jim Otis and tossing to Terry Metcalf. Arizona is undefeated in the division, boasts one of the youngest rosters in the sport and has a home game against the Chicago Bears this weekend.
Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Rams are this surging locomotive that is suddenly re-energized after being put down for dead a few weeks back. Los Angeles has a new vibe, their stars aren’t being shipped anywhere, and having talked to head coach Sean McVay this weekend (while he was celebrating his son’s 1st birthday at his house on Saturday), there’s a belief that this team can go on a run. The bright spot for L.A.? Rookies Jared Verse and Jaylen…
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