CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The beautiful thing about Week 13 is that you can do the bulk of your overreacting before the weekend. Three games Thursday. One more Friday. All won by underdogs, with major impact on the standings and the playoff races. First-place teams wobbling, upstarts… uh… upstarting? Plenty of overreaction fodder on the plate before Sunday even got here.
We will have five weeks left in the 2025 NFL regular season after Monday night's game, and some of the races that didn't look like they were going to be races have tightened up. Some teams we take for granted as playoff teams are going to have to fight their way in. Fact is, some of the things we thought were overreactions a month or so ago are turning out not to be.
Yeah, this is the good time of year, when the weather starts to get colder and every turnover seems like it can swing a team's entire season. As we try to figure out which overreactions might hold up and which ones are mirages, they carry a little more weight at this time of year because, again… we're at the point where they might not be overreactions.
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Fantasy-related overreactions
The first-place Buccaneers got a much-needed victory over Arizona to stop a three-game losing streak and improve to 7-5. This was important, because in Charlotte, the second-place Panthers pulled one of the biggest upsets of the season, knocking off the red-hot Rams in a game that saw Carolina run the ball 40 times and force three Matthew Stafford turnovers.
The Rams should be fine — everybody
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