Biffle takes checkers again but still can't take top spot

For the second consecutive week Greg Biffle won a playoff race -- and yet he's still 10 points out of first place. After winning at Loudon, Biffle carved off 50 points from his deficit; at Dover he cut another 20 points. ... And the Chase is supposed to be about winning?

It's a dead horse, I know, but the Chase is flawed. If drivers are rewarded for victories in the first 26 races (10 points for each W in the Chase seeding), they also should be rewarded in the final 10.

• For a guy who loathed the COT, Jack Roush has done a remarkable job getting his stable up to speed with the new racecar. Imagine if he would have embraced it from the get-go ...

• Clint Bowyer is like the wind: You know it's there but you can't see it. He has five consecutive top-15 finishes after an eight-place run at Dover. And now it's one to Kansas, where he's finished ninth and second in two starts.

• From the Duh! Department:
Jimmie Johnson and the No. 48 crew have figured out this Chase deal ...

• Jeff Burton is fourth in points, 81 behind Carl Edwards, and yet no one is talking about Burton in the same championship vein as Edwards, Johnson and Biffle. Is it really a three-driver Chase with eight races remaining?

• Nice bounce back, Matt Kenseth. His second-place run was the latest in a stretch of six top-10s in the past eight races at Dover. ... And now comes Kansas. More on that in a bit. (Continued)