The NFL is a passing league, right? Well. Maybe not. Aaron Rodgers did post the first perfect passer rating of his estimable career in Green Bay’s win over the Raiders, and Kirk Cousins is on a nice little three-week run, but when you look at the most impressive teams of Week 7, two things popped out: Varied running game, and clampdown defenses.

The Ravens went up to Seattle and had Lamar Jackson run all over Pete Carroll’s defense, Michael Vick-style, and the Cardinals upended the Giants with a ground attack that has sneakily become very interesting. Meanwhile, the only two undefeated teams left in the NFL – the Patriots and 49ers – are taking opposing offenses to the woodshed with some of the best week-to-week defensive performances of the last three decades. Of course, the 49ers also have among the NFL’s best and most diverse run games, which would seem to make them the best team in football… were it not for a New England defense that seems to strip the mind of acceptable descriptions on a week-to-week basis.

Perhaps as the season goes along, offenses will start to figure out defenses, and we’ll see more teams leading with the pass at the highest level. But right now, there’s as much old-school in the NFL as we can remember, performed as it is at the highest level of modern schematic complexity. Once again, it’s proven that there are all kinds of ways to win in the NFL.

Headed into Week 8, here’s where we see all 32 NFL teams:

32-25 | 24-17 | 16-9 | 8-1