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3 must-see games in Week 4

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How many people predicted the Ravens, Patriots, Eagles, and Vikings would be 3-0?

The Patriots are winning with a playbook circa 1938 and a crafty golden retriever playing quarterback, while the Eagles and Vikings are both living it up after pulling off a blockbuster trade for Sam Bradford. The Ravens are getting their toughest test this week with the Oakland Raiders, which is saying something, but it's fun that they're undefeated.

This week, though, it's coaches that take center stage. Here are three must-see games:

Bills at Patriots

Let's be honest, everyone outside of New England wants to see the Patriots lose, and there's only one man for the job: Rex Ryan.

The bloviating head coach of the Bills generally has one big, loud, but ultimately meaningless win in him per season, and this feels like that win.

Ryan will whoop it up in the postgame press conference, backslap his players, and assign so much import to the victory that the Bills will then drop three of the next four, well on their way to missing the playoffs for a 17th straight season.

Broncos at Buccaneers

Wade Phillips is leading the league's best defense once again, and it seems no amount of quarterbacking issues can slow this train down. There's not much left to say about how good the Broncos' defense is, so here's a selection of some of Phillips' finest tweets:

The Bucs are an enjoyable team to watch, and if they can be productive offensively, every talking head on ESPN will be like: "Whoa, this is a team on the rise. They're not there yet, folks. Let's not get ahead of ourselves. But this is a team that's going to make some noise in years to come. Bright. Bright future."

It's an interesting matchup nonetheless, and it seems likely Jameis Winston will look very fallible when it's over.

Chiefs at Steelers

The Chiefs are quietly capable of beating anybody in the NFL.

It's a rare team that is successful and yet flies under the radar every year - basically, it's just the Chiefs and Bengals - and no coach is as cosmically underrated as Andy Reid.

Since coming to Kansas City in 2013, Reid hasn't had a losing season and he's gone to the playoffs twice, all with Alex Smith running his offense. Meanwhile, the Steelers have been fairly average over the past four years, but seem to get the benefit of the doubt.

One of these teams is going to be 2-2, and they're both in extremely good divisions, so this is high-stakes stuff for Week 4.

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