Best & Worst NFL Week Thirteen

Week thirteen has come and gone in the NFL and what a week it was. Sure it was a light week, given the fact that six teams had a bye week this week. We got five weeks left in the regular season, but after this week the top teams in the conferences have shifted. Miami leaped over KC as tops in the AFC, while the Eagles still hold serve atop the NFC, but have finally dropped their second game of the year. We had individual players make strong claims for MVP, while others took a step back. Lets not waste any time, here's some of the best and worst from week thirteen in the NFL.

Best: Tyreek Hill Wide Receiver Miami Dolphins
There was not much of a doubt that the best receiver in the game is Tyreek Hill. The way he been playing this season he's playing at an MVP level. So too is Tua, but the play of Hill is allowing for Tua to hit his level. That was on display in the Dolphins 45-15 win over Washington last weekend. He finished with 157 yards on five catches, two of those catches went for touchdowns. Those 157 receiving yards from Hill were more than Washington had through the air as a team Sam Howell threw for just 127 yards on the day. Talk about going off Tyreek did that on Sunday.

Worst: Mike Tomlin Head Coach Pittsburgh Steelers
Your going into this weeks matchup facing a Cardinals team that had won just two games during the regular season up to this point. This, in theory, should have been a win for the Steelers. Instead it was a 24-10 win for Arizona. Yes, it does suck that Kenny Pickett got hurt and they had to go to Mitch Trubisky. But that's not on the coach, the rest of it does fall on Mike Tomlin. He couldn't have the rest of the boys ready for this game? Was there no prep for this game for being able to face Arizona? This kind of lack of prep can't happen. Yes I know you can't plan for injury to your quarterback but still.

Best: Gardner Minshew Quarterback Indianapolis Colts
When Anthony Richardson went down with a season ending shoulder injury for the Colts, there was a lot of questions for what might happen with this team and the direction they were going to go in. Enter Gardner Minshew, and Minshew Mania is running wild in Indy right now. They now sit in 2nd place in the AFC south with a 7-5 record. They are also sitting on a four game winning streak, following a 31-28 win over the Titans last weekend. A lot of that has been the influence of Gardner Minshew who threw for 312 yards and a pair of touchdowns in the win. None was bigger than a 55-yard bomb late in overtime to receiver Alec Pierce. It set up the Colts winning score. He has been having a massive impact on this Colts team and they are rolling right now and Gardner has them in a spot for a playoff push right now.

Worst: Brad Allen officiating Crew
The Sunday night game between the Chiefs and Packers was supposed to be a fun game to watch. But it didn't turn out that way in the 4th quarter, thanks in large part to some horrendous calls from the refs. Now, normally I'm never one to bash refs for making, or not making, calls. But what we saw Sunday in the Kansas City 42-19 win was beyond anything I'd seen in quite some time. Brad Allen and his crew missed some pretty blatant calls in the 4th quarter that weren't called. One was the missed call on roughing the passer on Patrick Mahomes who got walloped while in bounds and it wasn't called for roughing the passer. Oh it gets worse. The second was an obvious defensive pass interference that should've been called against Packers cornerback Carrington Valentine. It should've given the Chiefs the ball inside the 10-yard line. Sure mistakes happen, but ones like this can change the course of a game and they can't happen.

Best: San Francisco 49ers
You want to talk about a dominating performance, look no further than what the 49ers did on Sunday. They beat the tar out the Eagles to the tune of a 42-19 win. And doing it in Philadelphia no less. Brock Purdy threw for 314 yards and four touchdowns. He hit Deebo twice (who had 114 yards on four catches). Christian McCaffery had 150 total yards on the day. the offense went off. And so to did the defense, who was up in Jalen Hurts face all day long and sacked him three times. It was one of the most complete performances they've had in a long time. Sure they still have tough divisional games coming up with the Seahawks and Rams, but if they keep up with performances close to this, then the Niners could be in great shape for taking the NFC's top seed come playoff time.

Worst: Philadelphia Eagles

As just mentioned above the Niners put a whopping on the Eagles. Why does this one sting worse than any other loss this week? Well because coming into the day, the Eagles had been the only one loss team in the league still there at this point (Having lost only to the lowly Jets earlier in the year). They not only lost but they got their doors blown off by the 49ers. And its going to be a telling sign for the Eagles the rest of the way. Sure their final three games of the year are against the Giants twice with a game against the Cardinals in between. But the next two games are both on the road, one against Dallas and the other against Seattle. Both very tough tests. IF the Eagles can't rebound from what happened against San Francisco, they lose grip on teh top seed in the conference and who knows what could happen