Nearly half the NFL awoke Monday with winning records as Week 6 neared its end. Ten teams are 4-2 or better, although a couple -- Pittsburgh and Oakland, for sure -- played more like the Cleveland Browns than like teams with real aspirations.Separating contenders from pretenders is easy at the top, but a dozen teams will wind up earning postseason spots, with probably half of them having legitimate shots at reaching the Super Bowl. Which ones are the real deals? A run through all teams with winning records and a few other notables provides some clarity.True contenders can trust their defenses. They have quarterbacks who protect the football and can flourish in two-minute situations. They have track records for improving late in the season, and they ideally can win games even when their preferred formula becomes unavailable to them.CONTENDERSCream of the cropNew England Patriots (5-1): The Patriots check all the boxes. 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NEW YORK -- While NBCs prime-time television ratings are down, fans are clearly seeking out the Olympics on other devices.The network said Tuesday it had surpassed 2 billion minutes of live streamed action from the Rio de Janeiro Games. Not only does that comfortably surpass the 818 million streamed minutes for the London Games, it beats by 500 million the number for all previous Olympics combined.Within the first three days of the Olympics, 80 percent of people who watched the games said they used at least one other device to follow what was going on. That was up from 61 percent for the Sochi Winter Olympics two years ago, NBC said.An estimated 24.3 million people watched Monday nights prime-time telecast on NBC, the level rising by 5 percent to 25.5 million when streaming and cable coverage is added in. For the same Monday night in London four years ago, there were 26.6 million viewers.And the Olympics appear to be big in Utah this year. NBC said that for nine of the 11 prime-time nights of Olympics action, Salt Lake City was the market with the best ratings in the country.A GAME!: With two minutes to go in the first half of Tuesdays womens basketball game between the United States and Japan, NBCs Marc Zumoff and Anne Meyer Drysdale were juiced. They had a game! The U.S., which had won its first five games by an average of 45 points, was up by only two. Zumoff and Drysdale were enthralled by the pesky and entertaining Japanese players, who came after their better-known rivals relentlessly. Japan is putting up a great fight, Zumoff said.dddddddddddd By the second half, the U.S. put the hammer down. It was 89-59 when NBCs cameras caught the U.S. mens team in the stands; they were all staring at their devices. The Americans won by 46.QUOTE: He just took a little run to warm up today. -- NBCs Tom Hammond on Usain Bolt, after he eased to the finish line in his 200-meter heat.VIRTUAL REALITY: NBC and Samsung have been touting their virtual-reality coverage, but the quality of the video has been such that Olympians look like video-game characters on Samsungs Gear VR headset. Meanwhile, 360-degree still images from Getty Images havent gotten as much attention, but have been stunning. NBCs VR video relies on cameras at fixed locations off to the sides of the fields of play. With no camera operator, theres no control over the shots. Getty gave a 360-degree camera to each of its photographers, and theyve been able to capture the flexibility and strength of Simone Biles on the vault, and Argentinas Juan Martin del Potro diving into the crowd after winning his tennis gold medal. 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