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The Pewter Plank NFL Power Rankings: Week 5

Josh Hill — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 16:50:17 +0000

Mandatory Credit: Andrew Mills/THE STAR-LEDGER via US PRESSWIRE

Power Rankings: The Top 10

RANK	TEAM	RECORD	RESULT
1	Houston Texans	5-0	W, 23-17 over Jet
2	Atlanta Falcons	5-0	W, 24-17 over Redskins
3	Minnesota Vikings	4-1	W, 30-7 over Titans
4	San Francisco 49ers	4-1	W, 45-3 over Bills
5	Chicago Bears	4-1	W, 41-3 over Jaguars
6	Baltimore Ravens	4-1	W, 9-6 over Chiefs
7	Arizona Cardinals	4-1	L, 3-17 to Rams
8	New England Patriots	3-2	W, 31-21 over Broncos
9	St. Louis Rams	3-2	W, 17-3 over Cardinals
10	New York Giants	3-2	W, 41-27 over Browns

SEE THE REST OF THE POWER RANKINGS HERE

Houston may have struggled a bit in their Monday night game against the Jets, but they also didn’t look like a team that is going to lose anytime soon. The Jets gave them their toughest game to date, and really if a better quarterback was under center in New York we may have had an upset. But the Texans see the errors in their ways and that’s scary for the rest of the NFL.

The Minnesota Vikings are slowly becoming the second best team in football and if it were not for the Falcons undefeated streak, the second spot very well could have been Minnesota. But Christian Ponder needs to get better before the Vikings can be considered a viable threat to the Texans and Falcons defenses. We saw what Houston did to Mark Sanchez and while Ponder is better, he’s only slightly so. The same, albeit a much better case, can be said about the Chicago Bears and Jay Cutler. It seems the Bears are winning in spite of Cutler as he never gets anything going offensively until the defense scores three touchdowns and gets him 50 points of breathing room. It’s only then do we see a good Jay Cutler come to the field to inflate his worth, numbers and ego.

Finally, the Arizona Cardinals were very lucky to stay in the Top 10 this week, as they couldn’t have looked much worse against the Rams. That offense line is shoddy at best and it’s a weakness that will no doubt be exposed and sink this Cardinals team. Of all the successful teams in the NFL right now, the Cardinals have seemingly lucked their way into the bunch and are slowly being exposed as frauds in the power rankings.

Fan-Sided Blogs End Of Year Predictions

Dustin Staggers — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:16:41 +0000

Fan-Sided Blogs and BallHype teamed up to do an end of season power rankings prediction for the entire NFL. Each blogger in the network made their choices 1-32 and the overall placement was averaged out to create a consensus.

The Bucs of course were hated on, with an 18th place average finish. This would put Fan-Sided’s Bloggers on par with ESPN’s so called experts who had 1 out of 16 geniuses pick us to make the playoffs (Wild Card). I love going into the season though with low expectations from other teams and talking heads.

Be sure to check the link out regardless though, as it is a pretty sweet little piece.

Power Rankings Pre Camp

Dustin Staggers — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:42:00 +0000

#	+/-	Team	Comment
1	–	New England Patriots	18-1 last season sums it up.
2	–	Dallas Cowboys	I think that people forgot how good Adam Jones was as a football player.
3	–	Indianapolis Colts	Peyton Freaking Manning.
4	–	San Diego Chargers	This team is deep and has the best back in the game.
5	–	Jacksonville Jaguars	Jerry Porter should help Garrard continue his progression.
6	–	Pittsburgh Steelers	Bolstered their offense significantly with Limas Sweed and Rashard Mendenhall
7	–	Tampa Bay Buccaneers	Deep at every position on the field other than WR.
8	–	New York Giants	I guess the go here because they won. I hate this team.
9	–	New Orleans Saints	Expect second half like numbers from Brees and Colston this season.
10	–	Green Bay Packers	If Rodgers can play, this team is much better than 10th.
11	–	Cleveland Browns	Can the Anderson show continue? I’m skeptical, but am not discounting the possibility.
12	–	Philadelphia Eagles	I love cheesesteaks.
13	–	Washington Redskins	Can Jason Campbell continue to improve?
14	–	Minnesota Vikings	Is Tavaris Jackson a QB?
15	–	Tennessee Titans	Will the Titans ever get Vince a viable receiving threat?
16	–	Seattle Seahawks	I like replacing with Softie Alexander with J Jones. Never sure what to think of this team.
17	–	Buffalo Bills	Sleeper Alert.
18	–	Cincinnatti Bengals	Time for the Bengals to bounce back from last years disaster.
19	–	Carolina Panthers	Another team that has huge sleeper potential.
20	–	Arizona Cardinals	Offense has the potential to be sick.
21	–	Denver Broncos	I actually liked this team before realizing that Brandon Marshall is a psychopath.
22	–	Baltimore Ravens	The D should still be there, but Flacco to Clayton?
23	–	Houston Texans	GET A FREAKING RB!
24	–	Detroit Lions	If Marinelli can improve the D, they have a chance to make noise in the North. Martz being gone should help.
25	–	Chicago Bears	Worst collection of skill position players in recent memory.
26	–	NY Jets	Wahhhhhhh, they cheated!
27	–	St Louis Rams	I expect a huge bounce back year from SJax. This is another team with real potential to climb up this list.
28	–	San Francisco 49ers	Alex Smith. Enough said.
29	–	Kansas City Chiefs	Brodie Croyle. Enough said.
30	–	Oakland Raiders	I find myself wanting to like this team other than the fact that a moron who runs it, is bound to screw something up.
31	–	Miami Dolphins	Ricky Williams for a big year anyone?
32	–	Atlanta Falcons	This team is garbage.