Jacksonville is good.

The New York football Giants are bad.

Don’t look now, but we are living in the Upside Down in the NFL these days.

The league has always been unpredictable (except for the Browns stinking like week-old hamburger left out in the kitchen counter), but few seasons have seen more stranger things than this one.

At the halfway point, one can usually get a good feel for how things will shape up in the second half.

This year, not so much.

Here are a few things we do know with at least some level of certainty:

The Philadelphia Eagles are for real.

Of course, they could go in the tank during a difficult second half that sees the Eagles go on the road to face the Rams (more on them later), the Cowboys and the Seahawks.

But as long as they have Carson Wentz, who has the best nickname in football (the Dutch Destroyer), Philly has a shot to finish the season with the best record in football.

Let that sink in for a minute.

The Rams are for real, too.

If you said you knew Los Angeles A would be 6-2 at the halfway point, I’d call you a dirty, rotten liar.

Los Angeles B (the Chargers) maybe, but not the Rams.

If you said you knew Los Angeles A would be one of the highest scoring teams in the NFL, I’d call you a nasty fibber again.

But here we are. Both are true and Jared Goff and company show no signs of slowing down.

What got into the Bills and Jets?

These two teams on paper looked dreadful before the season started, but both teams reached the midway point in the playoff hunt.

How in the world did that happen?

As the old cliche goes, that’s why they play the games.

There are some really bad quarterbacks.

The NFL has a QB problem. There aren’t enough good ones. Heck, there aren’t enough merely adequate ones.

In a league where Tom Savage can be a starter and not a professional clipboard holder, there’s a problem.

The glaring hole at that position is getting more and more pronounced.

What will happen if the Steelers really get it together?

Pittsburgh is 6-2 and most Steeler fans will take that any year.

But they really haven’t played all that great this season. Good, yes. Great, nah.

That’s a testament to just how good this team could be and just how resilient they have been.

Ben Roethlisberger has looked average and almost bored in the first eight games. It took Le’Veon Bell a month to get his legs back after skipping training camp and preseason and there hasn’t been a consistent No. 2 receiver next to Antonio Brown yet.

If the Steelers’ offense starts purring again like it did last season, look out.

This could be a super season in the ‘Burgh.

Mike Kilroy is a staff writer for the Butler Eagle