CHFF: Week 12 Winners and Losers - Look at us go!

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Always fun to see the articles that glow in the weeks after a Pats win (or even odd enough, last week after a loss).

Cold, Hard Football Facts.com: Week 12 winners and losers

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Winner: Matt Cassel
Wow! Another 400-yard performance Sunday as the Patriots pasted the Dolphins, 48-28, to stay in the thick of the playoff race.

Maybe Pete Carroll started the wrong guys at USC. Both Carson Palmer and Matt Leinart won the Heisman with Cassel holding a clipboard on the sidelines. But both those guys have disappointed at this point in their respective pro careers. Cassel, meanwhile, is blowing all expectations out of the water.

Winner: AFC East
Buffalo hung 54 on the Chiefs, the Jets knocked off the previously undefeated Titans, and the division’s only loss of the week was Miami defeat to divisional foe New England.

The AFC now boasts 12 Quality Wins as of this week, more than any other division in football, including the mighty NFC East (11).

Loser: Parity
The NFL does everything in its power to make it possible for each team to fight for a playoff spot each season.

But there’s a good chance that the Patriots (7-4), Steelers (8-3), Colts (7-4) and Broncos (6-5) will represent the AFC in the playoffs once again here in 2008, and there's a chance that they could win three of four AFC divisions.

Since 2001, these four teams have filled 11 of 14 available spots in the AFC title game and represented the conference in five of six Super Bowls.

If by "parity" the NFL means "the same teams winning in the AFC year after year for an entire decade," then, yes, they have achieved parity.