While Week 12 may have kicked off with a few underwhelming, penalty-filled games on Thanksgiving, the drama sure picked up on Sunday with seven games finishing within one possession and multiple underdogs winning in some unusual ways.
Here's a quick look at some of the most noteworthy results and whether they will be important as we turn the calendar to December:
Overachieving Team of the Week: Baltimore Ravens
The Ravens emerged victorious on Sunday night and remained the AFC's top seed, but they didn't look the part of a Super Bowl favorite against a sputtering Browns team.
Lamar Jackson struggled to solve the Browns pass defense, taking a pair of sacks and throwing four interceptions, including three on consecutive drives in the second quarter. Luckily for the Ravens, Cleveland's offense was equally inept during that stretch and managed just a field goal on the ensuing possessions.
Baltimore did push seven possessions into Browns territory, but only netted one touchdown and a trio of field goals in the win. The rushing attack was persistent, but ineffective, averaging 3.4 yards per carry on 43 attempts.
This is now the third-straight game the Ravens offense has struggled after their 22-10 loss at the hands of the Miami Dolphins and their 16-13 win over the Bears last week. The offense has turned the ball over seven times in that timespan and Jackson wasn't even on the field for the Bears game, which was arguably the best offensive performance of the stretch.
The Ravens have been winning thanks to ball control hiding their flaws. They are ninth in time per drive, but only 17th in points per drive. Defensively, they're first in time per drive allowed, but eighth in points per drive allowed.
While it is certainly impressive that Baltimore is racking up wins despite the lackluster play, they are about to enter the toughest part of their schedule. Up next are three road division games sandwiched around a home date with the Green Bay Packers.
Underachieving Team of the Week: Philadelphia Eagles
The Eagles have built an identity in recent weeks, establishing an offense around a strong running game. And on Sunday, they did exactly what they wanted to do, rushing for over 200 yards and averaging 6.3 yards per carry.
Such a rushing performance usually comes along with victory, the Eagles hadn't lost a game when rushing for over 200 yards since 2013 and they hadn't scored less than 10 points in a game with 200 rushing yards since the Dwight Eisenhower administration.
Even Boston Scott did his thing, leading the Eagles in carries and scoring a touchdown against the Giants for the seventh time in five games against New York. Scott has just four touchdowns in 36 other career games. Although, Scott's fumble in the closing minutes shut down a potential game-tying drive.
However, the Eagles squandered a pair of red zone trips in the first half, throwing a pair of interceptions from the 20 and the one-yard-line. In fact, of Philadelphia's four turnovers, three came in Giants territory. The Eagles hadn't turned the ball over multiple times since Week 7.
Jalen Hurts struggled all afternoon and set season-lows in completion percentage, yards per attempt, and passer rating. The three interceptions are a career-high, too. One thing Hurts has done well recently is push the ball down the field, but he struggled against the Giants secondary, completing just three of his 11 pass attempts that traveled further than 10 yards beyond the line of scrimmage.
Certainly, the pair of drops by Jalen Reagor on the Eagles' final drive will be discussed on sports radio all week, but one could argue the Eagles should never have been in that position to begin with had Hurts and company simply taken care of the ball for the previous 59 minutes.
The Eagles have the unenviable task of facing the red-hot Jets next week in the second half of their MetLife double-feature.
Overachieving Player of the Week: Buccaneers RB Leonard Fournette
Has Playoff Lenny returned, albeit about a month ahead of schedule? Leonard Fournette out-gained Jonathan Taylor and scored four total touchdowns in the Buccaneers' 38-31 victory over a Colts team that was on a three-game winning streak.
However, Fournette was a beneficiary of the Colts' desperation to stop Tom Brady. None of his 17 carries came with eight men in the box and he led all runners in time spent behind the line of scrimmage.
Light boxes aren't anything new for Fournette, who has seen eight men in the box on just 15% of his runs this season, but hasn't seen a single carry in that situation in the past two weeks. Although, he struggled in Week 11, posting -13 yards over expected on his 10 carries.
The running back was the beneficiary of seven touches inside the 10-yard-line, although his fourth touchdown was a punishing 28-yard run that sealed the victory for Tampa Bay in the closing moments. With Brady on the field, the Buccaneers certainly aren't asking Fournette to carry the offense, but it was still important to see him successful in short yardage situations and double his touchdown output for the season on Sunday.
Underachieving Player of the Week: Panthers QB Cam Newton
The Panthers reuniting with Cam Newton was supposed to be a feel-good story. Unceremoniously released two years ago, Newton's return to Carolina was met with a lot of fanfare and energized an apathetic fanbase that had already soured on Sam Darnold.
However, Newton has looked cooked since returning to the starting lineup, even as ticket sales have soared. In his latest start, Newton was worse than Darnold ever was, completing less than a quarter of his passes and tossing of pair of interceptions before being mercifully benched in the fourth quarter.
Even Newton's 92 passing yards on 21 attempts were buoyed by a 64-yard catch-and-run by D.J. Moore that led to the Panthers' only touchdown of the day. Even their second score, a field goal, was the result of a blocked field goal that was returned back into field goal range in the closing seconds of the first half.
Carolina crossed the 50-yard-line just once in the three quarters Newton commanded the offense.
The future here becomes very murky. P.J. Walker certainly didn't inspire confidence with his performance against Miami, but he is 7-0 as a professional quarterback and his lone start this year produced the most points in the Matt Rhule Era.
But could Newton actually be benched? After his return was celebrated by a fanbase that felt jilted by his exit, certainly Matt Rhule and new GM Scott Fitterer don't have the guts to sit him back down on the bench and risk losing support heading into the final month of the season.
No matter how you slice it, the Newton experiment has been a disaster. He's been overmatched in his two starts, and outside a couple of fun highlights in his debut, it's clear he can't cut it anymore. His completion percentage was a staggering 42% lower than expected, nearly triple the next-worse performance of the week.
Bad Beat: Michael Pittman over 4.5 receptions
Michael Pittman has become Carson Wentz's favorite target during his first season with the Colts, and even after a lackluster week, five receptions seemed like an easy number for the second-year wideout to hit.
Hell, he's averaged 5.2 catches per game this season and had 28 more targets than any other Colts receiver heading into a matchup on Sunday against the Buccaneers' banged-up secondary. Pittman was even targeted three times in the first quarter, but all three passes were incomplete.
In total, Pittman got 10 targets on Sunday, his highest total since Week 8, but caught just four passes. It's only the second time this season he didn't catch at least 50 percent of his targets.
Next week could be a tough matchup for Pittman too. He was held to just 35 yards against the Texans in the teams' first meeting earlier this year.