Scott Van Pelt's One Big Thing - Vikings, Texans entertain in Week 9 - ESPN

On a day with a great game in each window — naturally, the most entertaining were the wins by the Houston Texans and Minnesota Vikings. I will get to those.

The Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs each head into their bye weeks off wins preceding a Monday Night Football showdown in Arrowhead, even though both flirted with blowing double-digit leads. The Chiefs' defense, which is the strength of its team this year, held on and they're 7-2. The Miami Dolphins continue to struggle with the best teams they play — they've lost each game against a team with a winning record.

The Dallas Cowboys-Philadelphia ending was amazingly inept on both sides considering both teams are really good. The Cowboys got to the Eagles' six-yard-line, and somehow ended up taking the last snap of the game from the 27 and came up just short. The mess at the end ought not allow us all to lose the plot here, Philly is 8-1 after all. But given the markets, the teams and the lunacy of the fourth quarter, I understand it.

The Baltimore Ravens game was a dud because for the second straight home game, they annihilated an NFC division leader. They beat the Detroit Lions and Seattle Seahawks by a combined 75-9 score. Their ceiling feels as high as any team in the NFL at the moment. It's the fourth time this season they've held an opponent to single-digits.

What Joshua Dobbs did is hard to fathom. The man just got to Minneapolis, didn't take a snap with the offense, didn't know most of the names of his receivers and led the Vikings to their fourth consecutive win. I'm a huge fan of professionals — of people who are ready to meet the moment — that's exactly what Dobbs did. His smile and the team's reaction in the locker room is the good stuff.

C.J.