The Green Bay Packers return to action this week against the New York Giants, but the rest of the NFC North is still in action this week. The Minnesota Vikings continued to roll on, stomping the Giants 24-10 on Monday Night, while the Detroit Lions out-sucked the Chicago Bears in a 17-14 snoozefest.

What’s going on with the Packers’ divisional rivals this week?

Let’s take a look.

Minnesota Vikings

You won’t like to hear it, but this Vikings team is legit.

Mostly, it’s the defense, which is ranked as the third best overall according to Football Outsider’s DVOA metric, fourth against both the run and the pass. It brings relentless pressure and features a solid secondary. Both of which comes as no surprise to Packers fans, since it wasn’t that long ago they got a close look at them.

What might have escaped people’s notice is that this offense has begun to gain momentum as well. Sam Bradford is looking very comfortable in it, and as teams begin to tighten coverage on Stefon Diggs, offensive coordinator Norv Turner has begun to spread the ball around.

So while Kyle Rudolph is a big secondary target, we’ve begun to see targets go to Cordarrelle Patterson, Charles Johnson and running back Jerick McKinnon. As expected, this offense actually looks better without Adrian Peterson, whose shaky work in pass protection and receiving limited it.

With McKinnon and Matt Asiata featured, defenses can no longer key off of whether Peterson is on the field or not.

This week they take on the Houston Texans, a team FO rates as eighth best overall, fifth against the pass and a terrible thirtieth against the run. The Texans are allowing 125.2 yards on the ground per game, so we might see a lot of the Vikings backfield this week. Meanwhile, say a prayer for the wildly inconsistent Brock Osweiler as the Vikings defense is likely to crush him.

Prediction: Vikings 21, Texans 7

Chicago Bears

The Bears get billing over the Lions this week because somehow they looked less awful than the Lions did in their win. Brian Hoyer played well in both of the two games he has been in, albeit against a terrible Dallas secondary and a hopeless Detroit defense.

It seems like enough to have head coach John Fox hesitating to have Jay Cutler return. Anyone who watched Hoyer with the Texans last season—especially in that dumpster fire of a playoff game—knows you won’t get far with Hoyer as your guy, but that hasn’t stopped anyone from trying.

This week they run into the equally inadequate Indianapolis Colts, a team so bad it is almost hard to know if they can beat the awful Bears. After watching this franchise squander the best years of Peyton Manning, we now get to watch history repeat itself with Andrew Luck.

There is no offensive line. There is no defense.  It’s bad.

Fortunately for the Colts, things aren’t better in Chicago. The defense is mediocre on a good day, Alshon Jeffery and Kevin White are limited by their quarterback and the offensive line is just bad.

The Colts will likely end up winning this one because Andrew Luck, despite some struggles, is a good quarterback while Hoyer is aggressively mediocre.

Prediction: Colts 17, Bears 7

Detroit Lions

This is going to be brutal.

After watching the Lions struggle to get any offense going against a poor defense, the Lions get the Philadelphia Eagles. Next to the Seahawks, there is just about nobody you want to see less than the Eagles, though the Vikings are close.

Does anyone have any hope for this game? The Lions are barely using Golden Tate, Marvin Jones is doing most of the heavy lifting and is likely to see a lot of coverage on Sunday and the run game has been shaky.

Oh, and Matt Stafford looked horrific last week. After three weeks of very good work, he threw no touchdowns and two interceptions in one of the worst games I’ve ever seen him play.

Sure, throw all that up against the Eagles defense.

Meanwhile we get to see what Carson Wentz can do against the terrible Lions defense, which should make this game a snoozer really fast.

Prediction: Eagles  27, Lions 10