Week 8 in the NFL was chock-full of a number of great games, unsuspecting upsets, big blowouts, eye-popping rallies and head-scratching action. I guess Halloween weekend had something to do with it.
Aaron Rodgers and the Packers were on a bye week, but that didn't stop them from pulling even further ahead of the other 31 teams. There's only one one-loss team left in the league now and it's San Francisco.
Here are my Week 9 power rankings with every team's week-by-week game results included.
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NFL Week 7 featured an inevitable great slate of early games (Falcons-Lions, Tebow-Dolphins, Chargers-Jets, Redskins-Panthers and Bears-Buccaneers in London) and late action that made fans cringe.
It was by most accounts a disappointing and less-than-thrilling weekend.
Week 8 looks to offer more excitement and ultimately just the opposite of Week 7—lopsided early affairs and great late games.
Here are my Week 8 NFL Power Rankings and an early outlook on the 2011 playoff picture.
No. 32 Miami [...]
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NFL Week 5 was chock-full of inevitable thrillers, head-turning surprises and much more puzzling parity.
Six teams sat out for the first week of byes (Dallas, Washington, Baltimore, Cleveland, St. Louis and Miami), creating even a tougher task to systematically sift through the confusion, chaos and correlation between the pretenders and contenders.
Here are my Week 6 NFL Power Rankings.
No. 32 St. Louis Rams (0-4):The game isn’t over ‘til the clock strikes double-zero. But there’s less than 10 seconds to go and the Rams are behind and out of [...]
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Following another exciting weekend in the NFL where seven mouth-watering great slate games were decided by five points or less and certainly satisfied football appetites from around the country, it’s time to establish my latest batch of NFL Power Rankings for Week 5.
After the opening week in October, we can really start to systematically sift through and separate the pretenders from the contenders.
I’ll label each team as a pretender, contender or interchangeable based on what I’ve seen through the first four weeks, team’s upcoming schedules and my expectations moving forward.
No. 32 St. [...]
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