The game you’re most interested in happens to be the game I’m most interested in – as the Green Bay Packers try to wrest control of the NFC North from the upstart Minnesota Vikings.

Aside from that and whether my New York Jets actually do anything well this weekend, there are a few games to keep an eye on when we’re not glued to the “main events.”

Denver Broncos at Chicago Bears

It’s what we’ve all been waiting for – the dawn of the Brock Osweiler era. No? Probably not, but we have a 7-2 team. That 7-2 team is loaded up for a run at the Super Bowl and knows the window is slowly falling shut.

And the quarterback who was supposed to carry them the whole way isn’t playing like himself. So now it has to turn to a guy who has no starts beyond 15 games in college. It’s a gamble but that’s how bad Peyton Manning has been playing.

The risk is immense. The Broncos and John Elway gambled on a coaching change and now they’re gambling on a quarterback change.  They don’t have a choice as bad – and apparently injured – as Manning is.

Still, they are on the road, against Bears team playing better than they started the season as and while the Denver defense has been solid overall, I feel like it has played poorly since it beat Green Bay.

Denver should win this, but it’s not a slam dunk. And if they lose, there are serious implications for both the AFC West and the NFC North.

Cincinnati Bengals at Arizona Cardinals

While the Cincinnati Bengals were embarrassing themselves on national television, the Cardinals were on a three game win streak and beating the Seattle Seahawks in Seattle.

We know the narrative of “Andy Dalton and the Bengals cannot win a primetime game” is a bit untrue, but we also have seen them stumble in that time slot time and again.

Add to it Carson Palmer and the fact that the Bengals traded him – something that still irks him – and you have a very interesting game. The Bengals are going to be desperate to rebound after the loss to the Houston Texans, especially since they can see the Pittsburgh Steelers in the rear view mirror.

Can the Bengals bounce back? Or will one of the most potent offenses in the NFL along with a very good defense keep Cincinnati on the skids?

Dallas Cowboys at Miami Dolphins

The return of Tony Romo!

The Cowboys have been a flaming tire fire over the last month or so, ever since Tony Romo was injured. Yet, they’re still not quite out of the playoff picture thanks to the rest of the NFC East being somewhere between awful and terrible.

Meanwhile the Dolphins are still trying to recover from the Joe Philbin era and it’s hard to say if this team is really good or not. Which makes all the sense in the world because we have no idea if Ryan Tannehill is good or not and ultimately, as the quarterback goes, so goes the team.

The Cowboys know this. We might find out which team and which quarterback can carry their team this week and the rest of the season.