NFL Week 11 Power Rankings

2010 NFL Football Power Ratings

Each week during the heart of the NFL season, and once or twice during the NFL Preseason, we’ll gather the troops around the roundtable and hash out the NFL Power rankings. We check out the stats, looks at the records, and, most importantly, we take a close, close look at the heart of each team.

We encourage you to come back each week and see how the NFL Power Rankings have changed.

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Yes, we know there is no dominant team in the league this year. And yes, it drives you nuts when you lay a few bucks on the Steelers at home and they lay an egg, or can’t figure out what’s going on with Drew Brees. But it just underscores that the NFL has something – unpredictability – that no other league has.

To the rankings:

1. New England Patriots (8) – Villagers are frightened when they see a light on again in Dracula’s castle.
2. Atlanta Falcons (5) – Not too shabby: Two victories over good teams in five days.
3. New York Jets (6) – Eight road victories in a row.
4. Indianapolis Colts (7) – Big topic of discussion at the John Deere plant is the Colts’ shaky defense in road games.
5. Philadelphia Eagles (9) – Kevin Kolb to Minnesota for second-round pick. You read it here first.
6. Green Bay Packers (3) – Media in Wisconsin (such as it is) pushing for Clay Matthews as MVP.
7. New York Giants (1) – Someday, after he is done coaching, Tom Coughlin’s sideline demeanor when his team is tanking will make a great Coors Light commercial.
8. Pittsburgh Steelers (2) – First five games: 12 points allowed per game. Last four: 25.5 per game.
9. Baltimore Ravens (4) – Do these guys ever lose a game without blaming the referees?
10. New Orleans Saints (10) – After missing 6 games, Pierre Thomas might be back this coming week.
11. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (12) – NFL is starting to take a second look at Josh Freeman.
12. Chicago Bears (15) – Every once in a while you watch Jay Cutler play and start to actually believe that he is not a bag of dung.
13. Oakland Raiders (14) – Al Davis basically has ordered Tom Cable to make Jason Campbell the starter for the rest of the season.
14. Tennessee Titans (11) – Randy Moss (1 catch on Sunday) is 1-4 in his last four games.
15. Jacksonville Jaguars (17) – Anyone notice that these guys are 7-2-0 against the spread?
16. Miami Dolphins (18) – Chad Pennington done. Chad Henne done. Tyler Thigpen? Are these guys trying to corner the market on QBs with yuppie first names?



17. San Diego Chargers (19) – Amazing Philip Rivers stat: In regular-season games played after October, the Chargers are 32-5 with Rivers at QB.
18. Kansas City Chiefs (13) – Big effort needed at home against Arizona, or these guys might be cooked.
19. St. Louis Rams (16) – It’s a long week in the film room for the defense after Troy Smith throws for 356 yards against you.
20. Seattle Seahawks (23) – Who figured that the Seahawks’ biggest offensive showing of the season would be on the road?
21. Houston Texans (20) – Time to walk solemnly into the morgue and identify the body.
22. Cleveland Browns (21) – Still a ways to go, but at least the fan base is back and Eric Mangini won’t have to worry about dodging snowballs in a few weeks.
23. San Francisco 49ers (28) – It’s easier to swim from Alcatraz to the mainland than it is to win in the NFL without a franchise QB.
24. Dallas Cowboys (30) – Wonder what Tony Romo was thinking on Sunday? In the morning news broke that Jessica Simpson was engaged, then in the afternoon his teammates played hard for Jon Kitna after dogging it for the first 8 games.
25. Arizona Cardinals (25) – QB rating is not the end-all, be-all, but when your guy (Derek Anderson) ranks 31^st out of 32  . . .
26. Minnesota Vikings (22) – “Hello. This is the Minnesota Vikings. Please listen carefully as our menu has changed. For a Brett Favre interception, Press 1. For a Brett Favre fumble, Press 2. To call for Brad Childress’s firing, Press 3. To apply for season tickets for the Los Angeles Vikings next season, Press 4. For all other inquiries, including glossy photos of text message photos sent by Brett, Press Zero or stay on the line.”
27. Washington Redskins (24) – Something doesn’t make sense. One week after McNabb is benched, the Skins give him a contract extension. Isn’t that like giving your ex-wife a diamond ring?
28. Detroit Lions (26) – Twenty-five straight road losses. Is that possible?
29. Cincinnati Bengals (27) – Marvin Lewis is not a bad guy and not a bad coach, but in a few months when he’s looking for work he’ll admit that he should have kept a tighter lid on these guys.
30. Denver Broncos (29) – Todd Haley refused to shake Josh McDaniels’s hand after Sunday’s blowout loss. May be residue from 2009, when each team ran up the score in the two games.
31. Buffalo Bills (32) – Yes it came against the Lions. It still counts.
32. Carolina Panthers (31) – Imagine how strong the NFC South would be like if these guys were even average?

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Lawrence Paul is a regular contributor to the Cappers Picks Blog, and is a free-lance gambling and travel writer from Massachusetts.