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Not a ton of movement from last week. Enjoy.
1.) Tennessee Titans: At 6-0, I’m still not thinking undefeated season, and I don’t think the ‘72 Dolphins are shaking in their boots. Of their six wins, the best team they played was Minnesota (maybe Jacksonville, but the jury’s still out on that one).
2.) New York Giants: I hate to be a pessimist at the top of the Power Rankings, but look at the teams the Giants have faced — outside of Washington, their opponents combined record is 7-25. I still think this team is the class of the NFC East, but with Philly dragging and Dallas stalling, that may not be saying much.
3.) Pittsburgh Steelers: It was a thumping against Cincy. With four games in a row against the Giants, Colts and Chargers, we’ll get to see what this team’s made of.
4.) Buffalo Bills: Could this be one of the funnest teams in the league to watch? Quick receivers, a strong runner, and a defense that capitalizes on opporunity. It’s rare a team has one loss and is under the radar, but they’re doing it.
5.) Tampa Bay Bucs: Everyone knows they’ve got a nasty defense. Now that Jeff Garcia is moving the ball downfield, they’ve got the total package to make it to. . . well, Tampa.
6.) Carolina Panthers: Even as a Falcons fan that’s been happy with their surprise, I’ve said all year that Carolina is the class of the NFC. Don’t be surprised to see them march their way to the Super Bowl — good pass rush, strong run, a QB that doesn’t make a ton of mistakes, and a gamebreaker in Steve Smith.
7.) New England Patriots: Losing Rodney Harrison will hurt. But if Matt Cassel can play like that all year, this team will be in the playoffs and one again be a threat to win another ring.
8.) Washington Redskins: The Browns rallied a late comeback. And the ‘Skins offense hasn’t been dominant all year, but they don’t turn the ball over and they don’t give up many points.
9.) Arizona Cardinals: This team pretty much has the NFC West wrapped up.
10.) Atlanta Falcons: At 4-2, this season can’t possibly go wrong. They weren’t expected to win this many all year.
11.) Chicago Bears: It was a nice bounce back win after the heartbreaker in Atlanta. But if that defense doesn’t pick up, it doesn’t matter how well Kyle Orton is playing.
12.) Green Bay Packers: Big win against Indy. Aaron Rodgers is making the fans in Green Bay forget Brett Favre.
13.) Dallas Cowboys: They’re only this high because of the rest of the NFL is a very average league right now. All the talk before the season was Super Bowl — now making the playoffs might be an accomplishment.
14.) New York Jets: How do you lose to the Oakland when your running back averages over 6.5 yards per carry and your defense only gives up 16 points in five quarters? Well, throwing two costly interceptions helps. Another reason fans in Green Bay are forgetting about Brett Favre.
15.) Jacksonville Jaguars: The rest of their schedule gets much easier.
16.) Indianapolis Colts: It’s not often that it’s October and we’re saying the Colts are in a must win game. But with Tennessee next week, it’s a must win game.
17.) Denver Broncos: I know Cutler got hurt. But that defense — my God. Matt Cassel looked like a 6′5″ model-dating-three-time-winning Super Bowl QB back there.
18.) Philadelphia Eagles: Their defense will really test Matt Ryan this week.
19.) Baltimore Ravens: That defense is good. But Joe Flacco still has a ways to go.
20.) New Orleans Saints: Reggie Bush is out for a month, but the Saints have done all right with starters out most of the season. This team is very good at home, but has to learn to play on the road.
21.) San Diego Chargers: I don’t know if the bigger concern is this team’s record, or LT’s inability to get in the open field.
22.) Minnesota Vikings: There’s two games now you might have been able to win had you played decent special teams.
23.) Houston Texans: Matt Schaub is hitting on all cylinders. That defense has a solid pass rush. They were the best winless team four weeks ago, and they might be the best two win team now.
24.) Cleveland Browns: It was a tough loss. But the QB play needs to get better than what happened on Sunday.
25.) St. Louis Rams: After watching their first four games, I never thought this team would win. Jim Haslett is bringing a different attitude to this team, and it’s showing up on the field.
26.) Miami Dolphins: Looks like the Wildcat formation got figured out.
27.) Oakland Raiders: Big win for Oakland. Congrats to Tom Cable, who won’t be there at the end of the year no matter how well he’s doing.
28.) San Francisco: No more Mike Nolan, but it’s hard to blame the guy. He came to a team that was looking to rebuild and drafted the wrong guy. It’s that simple.
29.) Seattle Seahawks: It was an improvement from weeks before, but that’s not saying a whole ton.
30.) Kansas City Chiefs: This year is over. It’s miraculous they won a game; had they not, my money would be on them to finish winless. They don’t play defense, and they’ve got no direction on offense.
31.) Cincinnati Bengals: It’s a countdown to 0-16 and the first pick in April. I don’t think they’ll win it. Not that they’re great; but this next team, they look that bad.
32.) Detroit Lions: If they knew how to play defense in the first quarter, they may stand a chance. But when you’ve been outscored 57-0 in first quarters this year, it says a lot about a team. Sam Bradford/Matthew Stafford will be throwing to Calvin Johnson for a long, long time to come.