Grading every NFL team at the midway point: Chargers get an ‘F,’ three teams get solid ‘A’ grade

We're just past the midway point of the NFL season, which means it's time to start thinking seriously about who has and has not met the expectations we set for them at the start of the year. Everyone came into the season with a different set of hopes, and everyone has had plenty of time to meet, exceed or fall short of them now that we have played nine weeks of football.

For some teams, whether they have done what was expected of them is fairly obvious: The Chargers have not, for example. For other teams, it's not so obvious: The entire NFC South would fit that description. But what about the rest of the teams in the league? How have they performed, and how would we grade them relative to what was expected of them entering the season?

That's why we're here. We're assigning letter grades to each team's performance through the midway point of the season. We broke down where each team stands, and why, below.

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