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Which division do you think is the toughest?

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I am really enjoying seeing more and more parity in the teams. No longer are the Browns, Bengals, and Lions check mark wins.

Any given Sunday right?

Was reading an article last year about how the NFC North was the 'toughest division'. Good article - but it got me thinking which is going to be the toughest for 2012?

NFC South has to be in the argument. Panthers are (back) in the hunt, Saints may take a step back depending on Brees holdout/Bounty gate, Falcons are still a force with Ryan. Buccaneers took a step back last year but they had 10 wins prior. TOUGH division.

NFC North is still monster. Packers, Lions, Vikings, Bears. ick. Cutler is back, Haney out makes Bears back in. Lions have done a 180 and are in it. AP is back with Vikings - if they get Ponder going ouch...and of course the Packers are awesome.

AFC North - first time any division had 3 playoff teams in it. Bengals, Ravens, Steelers, Browns. Browns our their weak link but the other three? Very tough.

So which division do you think will be dominant?

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I think the NFC North was the toughest last year.

NFC South wasn't even close. Yeah we threatened people but after the first few weeks the Bucks were total garbage. While not the worst division, I think we were pretty bad.

AFC North has an argument but IMO the top 3 NFC North teams are better than the top 3 AFC North teams, and I think the Vikings and Browns are both better than their records and likely about equal.

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I gotta say AFC and NFC North, two week links would be the browns and Vikes, next year AP might not even be healthy enough to be productive, and the browns need a few pieces on offense to compete in that division.

2012 ranking IMO are,

1 NFC North

2 AFC North

3 NFC East

4 NFC South

5 AFC East

6 AFC South

7 NFC West

8 AFC West

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I think it is too early to tell as far as 2012 division rankings, because the draft & free agency (especially Manning) really could drastically change things... Take our division, for instance... if Brees leaves the Saints and/or they get totally raped by the NFL, we'll be a weaker division... but if they get a slap on the wrist and Brees stays, they replace/keep people and are strong, then the NFC South will be one of the better divisions again next year.

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AFC West is either the toughest or weakest, within the divisions.

8-8 wins the division! 9-7 for sure! And the teams seems to split when it comes to paying each other. On paper they appear to be the toughest.

Outside the division, I would say, NFC East. Giants, Cowboys and Iggles can either be tough or cream puffs.

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With the influx of talented QBs lately. Seems like almost everybody has a QB now.

Which makes any division a potential monster.

With all these QBs floating around. Defense is going to try and make a comeback. Balance is the name of the game. No more all O and crappy D, or all D and some O. If you don't have an O, you cannot compete. If you do have an O, you better bring a D with you. If you want to be the man, you had better be able to stop the man.

Man this is a great time to be an NFL fan. And GOOOOO CATS!!!!!!!!!!!!1

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