Six lessons from Week 8: Bears emerge as top-tier Super Bowl contenders, Chiefs must address glaring flaws

The NFL is always full of surprises — season to season, week to week and, on Sundays, hour to hour.

The Week 8 schedule was absolutely loaded, but the two best games of the Sunday slate ended up being Titans-Bengals and Cardinals-Cowboys. If you had Gardner Minshew coming off the bench and throwing three touchdowns to lead a double-digit comeback and Joe Burrow accounting for six touchdowns — and throwing three interceptions — go buy a lottery ticket.

And that was only the early window. Later in the day, Bo Nix went from zero to hero again, leading a stunning double-digit comeback against the Chiefs. Overall, there were five double-digit comeback wins, the most of any week this season.

So yes, it may be November, but we're still learning, still being surprised, still finding out what's real and what's not. And the Bears capped a wild weekend by showing they are very much for real.

If you had high expectations for Jeffery Simmons in Chicago — and I very much did — they somehow still weren't high enough, at least for one game. The Bears' 34-17 dismantling of the reigning-champion Seahawks was a fever dream for any Chicago fan.

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