The NFL Power Rankings are back for a second season. Check back each week for rankings. Feel free to leave feedback about how wrong I am in the comments section or throw me an emailcosburn@thefatherlife.com
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1 | 1 | Perhaps the Saints are winning close games on purpose so fans don’t get bored. Yea right. | |
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2 | 2 | The Colts have won an NFL record 22 straight regular season games. On a side note, the Bills have a one game winning streak. | |
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3 | 3 | My fantasy football team “WhatAboutBrettFavrah” finished 4-9 and scored the least amount of points in the league. It’s not Favre’s fault though. | |
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4 | 5 | The Bolts have won eight straight games. In that span, Phillip Rivers has completed over seventy percent of his passes. | |
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5 | 10 | Big jump up the rankings by Illadelphia after a big win over the G-men. | |
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6 | 11 | Charles Woodson should win NFL defensive player of the year. | |
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7 | 4 | It’s a bad day when Carson Palmer throws for almost the same amount of yards as Ryan “Lord Helmet” Fitzpatrick, his former backup. | |
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8 | 6 | Wow, you know you have a bad history when you are 8-5 and analysts still aren’t sold on you as a playoff team. | |
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9 | 8 | I don’t enjoy the fact that Randy Moss gets paid millions to only try when he feels like it and I’m eating mac and cheese from a box while I type this. | |
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10 | 7 | Brandon Marshall is nasty good. He had 21 catches on Sunday. | |
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11 | 9 | Frank Gore ran all over the Cards defense for 167 yards. He had only had 117 in his previous three games combined. | |
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12 | 12 | Ok, I take last week’s comments back. Commence Poseidon sticking trident into the Giants. | |
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13 | 14 | Jags put a hurtin’ on the Rams just like they should. | |
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14 | 18 | Ricky Williams must be getting amped up by watching Half Baked before games, because he’s tearing it up. | |
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15 | 19 | Best nickname in sports: Larry “H to the” Izzo. | |
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16 | 17 | Ray Rice is my favorite player in the NFL. He’s like the little engine that could. | |
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17 | 13 | Five losses in a row = mass confusion as to why the defending champs are so terrible. | |
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18 | 15 | Dickerson watch: Chris Johnson needs 479 yards in his next three games to break the season rushing record. | |
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19 | 16 | You got to love Tony Gonzalez. He never complained in KC even though his team was a perennial loser. Now he’s in Atlanta under .500 and he’s still just happy to be playing the game he loves. | |
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20 | 20 | Why isn’t Steve Slaton getting the bulk of the touches? What’s with this runningback by committee? | |
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21 | 21 | This NFL season has hit a new high of improbability after the Niners romp of the Cards. | |
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22 | 22 | Olin Kreutz is one bad mother…shut your mouth! | |
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23 | 23 | I thought that the Panthers offense was supposed be there strength. Why is it their weakness? | |
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24 | 24 | Two game win streak snapped by having to play an actual decent team. Albeit a maddeningly under performing one. | |
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25 | 25 | Unbelievable stat of the day: The Bills lead the NFL with 25 interceptions. | |
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26 | 26 | My buddy D.J., on the recent acquisition of J.P. Losman by the raiders: “Time to take away Al Davis’ drivers license. He’s officially insane.” | |
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27 | 27 | Rookie DE Brian Orakpo had four sacks on Sunday against the Raiders. He’s got eleven on the season. | |
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28 | 28 | The Chiefs out-uglied the Bills. That aint easy. | |
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29 | 29 | I guess you could call this season a success since the Lions have already won way more games (2) than last season (0). | |
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30 | 32 | Dear Mike Holmgren, don’t get associated with Cleveland. That team’s a sinking ship. | |
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31 | 30 | Ryan Leaf’s former protégé started for the Rams and threw five picks…and Ryan Leaf is still in jail. | |
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32 | 31 | At one point last season the Bucs were 9-2. Since then, they are a paltry 1-17. |
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I cannot believe you put the Browns below the Lions and Bills.
I understand that The Browns somehow beat the Bills, but Buffalo has five wins and would no doubt beat the Browns if they played them again. the Lions are ahead because I really think that if those teams played it would be a toss up.
You a Browns fan, Rugbymom? That takes more devotion that being a Bills fan! But I’d have to agree; even though the Bills found a way to lose to the Browns, I think overall the Bills are playing better this year. And I hadn’t heard Fitz referred to as “Lord Helmet” before. That’s hilarious!
Chris, it’s a possibility they would, but they didn’t. So there! 😛
Ben, you bet your sweet behind I am, and thanks for the compliment! As for the rest of what you said, blah-blah-blah… 😉