NFL Power Rankings: The Wrap Up.
Jason Strachan <edonahue.js@gmail.com>
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The Wrap Up. Eighteen (18) Weeks Of Play.
Hours Of Obsessing. Mountains Of Scribblings And Notes. It's been called a “marathon.” No, Not 2021. The First 17 Week NFL Season
The “Into The Football Overload” For Those Familiar.
A struggle. The Age Long Struggle For What We Want And What’s Best For Us. Which, in This Case, Happens To be More Football.
A viscous Hill has left writers sunk in the subsistence of storied storylines and The dreary work of trying to resurrect any life, any in the hope Of the Cowboys being contenders. Narratives get recycled. Pundits Have Petition The God For vernacularize Rains. Some Have Had Medications Gone On For Hours On End With Hopes Of Reaching A Deeper Stratosphere Of statistical Model And Marvel That Will Freshly Remodulate How Fans View The Game. A Number Nirvana.
The NFL Rumor Mill Has Portended that There Could be More Sumptuous Sizes Of Football Serving, In The Form 18 Game. THIS marathon May Have Very Well Have Been A Warm-up. When the NFL First Announced The Seventeen. It Seems like A Ploy, in Some Sense A Shrewd Cash Grab, For A /league Always Lurching For A Leg Up.
I Tackled The Topic Of The NFL And The Financials Fortuitousness of A 17 Game Some Multiple Millions To Reap. A SORT of Stimulus Plan Counteraction To Falling Effects Of the Covid-Truncated Season On I A, Write Up Then Some Extra Millions In Revenue, Whatever.
The 18th Could Mean More Than Just More Football. It Could mean War.
Across The Valley, Again Challenges have Once Again Taken Up arms. In An alternate reality Where The NFL Feel threatened By another Sports League, Much Less Another Football League, It’s Must Be An Apocalyptic wasteland. But Football, the actual Sport, Not than Brand Of It Subsist, could Face An existential Crisis. As new League blend in their “Alternates” of the game, which Is Sure To Carve Out Their Portion Of Football Enthusiast. The NFL’s Fight Won't Be To Extinguish Their Rise. Instead, The NFL Must Keep, Its brand of Football is “holy”. Set Apart.
I Know, Philosophical Assertion Seems Too Rich, Too Meta, for Athletic Performance. Jason, they throw leather around and Throw their bodies Around Like Rag Dolls. When the players retire, They go to Tp hit other athletes. The Fortunate Ones Do. Others, Well Those Are Tragedies.
Football Should Be Nothing More Than A Game For prehistory, not the age of enlightenment Matters.
Had AOL, Yahoo, Napster, ask.com Consider Existential Reasonings during The Internet Boom, dot-com bubble Era. Like, say Apple or Amazon, or Google. A titan Like Microsoft Did, but that couldn't save Edge for The Precipice Of Being Dated.
Football Has Never Been In Higher Demand. There is No Shortage of Sites And People Willing To Discuss And Rap About The Game. This Could be The Time In History Spring Football Lives Before Its Youth. The USFL And XFL, If It Returns, Have Territory To MArk Out.
“Shame On A… For Trying To Run Game On A..”- ODB
The Weekend Took To The Air. Two Anticlimactic Games. Then Week 18 Would Make The Turnover. Into Sunday night After Only One Or Two Probable Playoff Worthy Games, The Others, Mere Formalities. How Excessive, How Pompous The NFL. It's Out of Control. Then The Colts Lost.
1) Green Bay Packers
The Packers Were The Best Bang for Your Buck Team This Season. Most Of Which They Played Depleted On The Offensive Line, defensive Front, And Defensive Back Field. But You Wouldn’t Have Noticed. Of the Few Games, The Team Hadn’t Exposed Its Issues To The Exploitative, i.e., Week 11 In Minnesota And Week 13 Against Baltimore. The Packers Lead By Aaron Rodgers After A Week One lost Week Stood Already too Far Ahead Of The Rest of The Pack In Standing A Locomotive Momentum, That A Few Immaterial losses and Close Wins Were Negligible. The Season’s Best Metaphor Would be Devante Adams Lined Out Wide. At The Snap, It’s Toon Late For. Defender To Cover him. The standing weren’t The Only Place Green Bay Stayed Ahead. The Pack Was Busy Clicking On All Cylinders Stay Ahead Of The Clock And The Count. The League’s Best team On first Down Offense And Never Lost A Game This Season After Winning or Evening The score A One Quarter. One Of The Best Second Quarter Offenses That Empowered The Passing Attack To Wrestle The reigns of Any Lead Away From Opponents Or Tread Water To The Finish. Aaron Rodgers Had An Above Average Season, In My Opinion. With Passing number Mounting 40-50 Week To week. I want More Than 33 Attempts, 37 touchdown's 4 interceptions. Rodgers Missed A Few Games And Has The Injured To Straddling, But You Have To Wonder if It’ll Be Enough when It Matter the Most. It’s the Reason Why Their Passing Attack Isn’t Top 5. It's Enough for Rodger To Land In The MVP Conversation, But That Reward Belongs To…
2) Tampa Bay Bucs
A Delusional One Minute Ago Me wanted To Put The Buccaneers In A Different Spot. One Spot Higher But A Better Reasonings Took Hold Of Typing tips. Surprisingly enough, Despite A Less Than Polished Season. Where The Bucks Had To gut Out Late Victory Over The Jets, Not To Mention Looking Brady Frustrated Against the Bears, Befuddled Against The Saints And Washington. Still, The Bucs Found Time To Finish tied For The League Best Record. Are The Bucs Counted Out Being A Shell of Its Former Glory? That Before Succumbing To Critical Injuries And Antonio Brown. Just Another Chapter In The Book Of Brady For Me.
3) Kansas City Chiefs-
It's A long Raod Along The Way Down From The Top. The Best Team in The League Behind Two Giants. The Chiefs Are threatening To Be ranked Amongst The Greats Alas Not To Be So. The Chiefs Are Still A Team That’s An Offense Cloth By A Passing Attack Staples Together By Two Outside Threats Thread By One Impressive Arm. The Chefs Had The Longest Winning Streak Of The Season That followed Their Slow Start. The Schedule Played A factor But The Chiefs Begun To Plug Hole On Defense And Some Of The Luck The Offense Had Over The Pass Two Years Return. According To ESPN, Mahomes Struggles Could Be Link To Team Playing Heavy Coverage Units And Giving Mahomes Room To become Undoing. The Chiefs Are Still one of The Best Offenses in The League, but It's No Easy Road In The AFC right Now.
4) Tennessee Titans
It’s a Safe Bet to Know Its Dangerous To Go Against The Titans This Year. I could Admit I’m Guilty Of Evaluating A Teams Solely Of Stats And tape And Other Evaluations, but The Titans Are Well Coached Bunch That Play Harder Than their Talent Suggest. Injuries Have Been The Worse Of Tennessee’s Worries This Season. Star wideout A.J. Brown missed four games. Offseason Acquisition Julio Jones Missed Time. A Limp Did Little To Prevent The Titans from Rushing Away With The AFC’s Best Record. The Titans lost tailback Derrick Henry to a foot injury in Week 8; They were 6-2. They Didn’t Lose A Step, But The Offensive Punch faded Some. One The Unlikeliest Of Contenders In The Most Unlikeliest Of Season. Tennessee Great Miracle May Have Been Giving Julio Jones’ Late Season Some Life. A Soft Second Season Half Schedule Shouldn’t Dampen To Match Of The Expectations for Titans. The Texans Twice But They Played Spoiler Beating The Chiefs, Bills, Colts, And Niners.
5) Dallas Cowboys Finished The Season With One Of the Best offenses in Football. Number 1 In Some Books, Top Ten In Others. All Offense Starts with The Passing Attack. It’s Been Good. Tick A lot Of Boxes O The Checklist. Dak Prescot Finish The Final Month of The Season With 13 Touchdowns And 0 Picks. He’s good Enough To be Ranked 8th At His position And Help The Cowboys To A sumptuous +172 Point Differential. “Aint Been No Drought. They Think I Been Sleep A lot.” A Thousand Yard Receiver In Second Year Man CeeDee Lamb Finished The Season With 13.9 Per Catch And Moved His More Natural position On the Outside With Michael Gallup Out Due To Injury. In Big, D Context Holds Crown Though. Of Prescott’s thirteen, Five of Those touchdowns Came Against A Eagles Team That Could Not Have Been Less Interested in Week 18 Battle. Three Against Washington who Is More Concerned with Their New Name Rather Than Making A Move On the Playoffs. I’m Happy For The Washington Football team in That Since. They are writing WFT Or Having To BackTrack when I Habitually Stumble Into writing R E D S…, It's Tedious. And The Dallas Offense could Gaudiness Could Be An Effect of illusion. The Dan Quin Defense, It's Top five Or near When Accredited.
6) The Secondary, It's One The best in Opponents Completion Percentage and QB Rating. But Context They Feasted On The 20th Weakest Schedule all Season. When The Played Competent Passing Attacks, Chiefs, Raiders, Chargers And The Broncos that One Time. The Secondary Gave Up Double Figure Yards Per Reception Numbers. Trevon Diggs Lurks The Backfield Not Only As Its Star but’s Microcosm. “When he isn’t taking the football away, he’s given up huge receptions for first downs and touchdowns.” The Cowboys Are As Such As well. A High variance Unit. The Defense Lives On Turnovers And Dies Deep For Being Hungry for Picks.
7) Buffalo Bills
When Most teams Took Off Into The Last Decade With Might Passing Proliferation And Innovation, The Bills Lags, Struggling Just To Field A Competent Arm on Sundays And Finishing Last in Passing on several occasions. One of The few Teams To draft two first-round quarterbacks in one decade. The Browns. The Jets. “The Unremarkable.” You Know. Those Are Not The Team You Want your Franchise Mentioned With when You're Looking up At The Tom Brady patriots Every Season. They are one Of the Many To employ Tyrod Taylor As A Gap-year Quarterback On Several Occasions. They Drafted EJ Manuel, The Strong-Armed, Mobile, High pedigree Kid Out Of Powerhouse Florida State.
The Moved On To Draft Josh Allen. The Strong-Armed, Mobile, High pedigree Kid Out Of Wyoming. The Got It Right With Allen. The Only Team To Believe Nathan Peterman could Be A Respectable Starter. After Witness Tom Brady Carve up The Division And Conference nearly Unchallenged. The Bills Appeared To Have fallen Behind The Curb Ad Infinitum. In 2018, The Shift In Fortunes Came To Buffalo. The Bills Employed A Straight Forward Strategy. If They Couldn’t Join The passing Frenzy, They’d Wreck the Party. They’ve Jumped The Curve These last Two Season. The Bills Play A lot of Pass-Averse Coverages. A lot Of Nickel And Cover 3. They Don’t Get Beat Deep Often. Giving Up Only three 50 Plus yard Plays All Season. Their Linebackers Play Coverage More than 80% Of Their Snap. Force Team To win on The Ground On In shortage. Josh Allen Has Had A fair Share of Flame Outs. Several which Came this Most Critical Of Season In His Career, being The Catalyst As The AFC East Changing of The Guard. But Who Could Argue Against The Results. The best point differential is +192 In the League.
8) New England Patriots
“Moral Victories Are For Minor League Coaches.”
I’m A Patriots Fan. You Can tell, How Highly I Speak Of Tom Brady. This Patriots Team Found A Strength without Him. Not Too Many Thought It Could Happen And In Such An Expeditious Timeline.
It’s a Strength Few teams Can Boost. They're Not The Hottest Team Right Now. The Offense Put The Brakes On And Parked On Sunday, But This Belichick Coach Group Remains One Of The Strongest And Discipline Group Through And Through. The best Coverage Unit Grade-wise. The Patriots To Dear you To rush They rather Tempt You To Pass Into Mistake. They Were crazy Effeicnt On Third Down And finished With The AFC’s Second Best Point-Differential As A Result. The Moment The Patriots Rose From Desperately To Title contention Could Be Trace Back To that Lost To Brady And The Bucs.
After Which The Past Won 8 Of their Nest 9. Momentum has never Been One of The Defining ideals For Any Patriots Team. Check the 2018 late Season Run. These Patriots bunches Are A cohesive Unit. Long Time Long tooth Stallworth, like Jamie Collins, Don’t’a Hightower, Kyle Van Noy, And Devin McCourty, Have Log Countless Snaps over the Last Decade Plus Now. The Pats Are coming Off A Bleak Lost To the Dolphins.
Where These team Doesn’t Have Experience, the Offense was Lead By rookie QB Mac Jones who finished 20-of-30 for 261 yards and one touchdown with one interception. He was 9-of-9 for 118 yards and a touchdown. He was bringing His Season tally To 3,801, 68% completion Percentage, And 22 touchdowns. Bill Would Have Tow Choose whether they want To Protect or employ Mac Jones early. Eleven Of Jones Thirteen Touchdown Have Come When The Team trails Its Opponent And Has To Press On Jones’s Arm To Recover.
9) Cincinnati Bengals
The Bengals found Their Stride Mid-Season early, And It's Been A race To Finish ever since. Zach Taylors Group Are The Only Team In The AFC You Don’t find That tale of two Seasons Narrative. Aside From The Chargers Week 13 And Browns Week 9, There Aren’t Many Ugly Losses. It’s a Real Steady Bunch. The Passing Attack Are The Rockstar Joe Mixon finished Third In Rushing Attempts and Yards. Before Jamar Chase And Joe Burrow took Off, Joe Mixon Handled The Heavy Weight Of The Offense. Mixon delivered A Streak of two-Week When he Rushes 58 Times For 288 yards After The Cleveland. The offense Can get Going Quick And Slow Down When needed. How This Covalent Bond And Balanced Equations Between Two Elements Gets Deliver As Wild Weekend Come Around The Bend. The Cohesion Comes Down To Chemistry. The Offensive Build On The Ground One Compound At A Time. Mixon Two Stretch Gets Slight Over Shadow By Joe Burrow’s Final Two Games. The Former LSU Tiger Quarterback threw for a combined 971 yards in Weeks 16 and 17. During That Stretch, Mixon Had 30 Carries for 111 yards. Can The Bengals Incorporate Mixon Into The pass Game? He Had a Sixteen touchdown on The Season Only Three through The Air. Would That Take Away from His breakaway Ability And Lead To Mixon becoming Just Another Cog In The Passing offense. The Bengal’s Weren’t Terrible Good With Turnover In Either The rushing or Passing. Burrow Finished Top Ten Ints. It Had Its Let Downs A Few Weeks, But No Offense Looks Hotter Heading The AFC Jungle. The Defense, Especially The back End Will Be Critical. They Addressed Some of The Issue in Free Agency with Chidobe Awuzie, But The Unit Is Still one of The Weakest In The League.
10) Los Angeles Rams
The Rams aren’t tittering Towards The Brink Top Ten Oblivion for Any apparent Statistical reason. The Lead The League In Pressures And Sacks. A First Class “Shut Down.” Corner. A d NFL History’s Greatest Pass Catcher. They lost Three Straight Mid Season Abut Also Have Three Multiple Game Win Streaks On The Season. Matthew Stafford, For All His shakiness At The end Of The Season, Finished Third In Total Passing Yards 4886 And 41 Touchdowns. Stafford Had Some Bone Crushing Interceptions At The future, Some Guys. This Rams team Doesn’t Pass The Eye test. They're Ridiculously Thin At Linebacker. Safety Jordan fuller decked The Most Offensive Player For The Rams Defense . he Leads The Team In Tackles. Follow By fellow Safety Taylor Rapp. Half of Their Collective Tackle Were Solo tackles. When Your Safeties Are Best Tacklers, That’s Not A Mathematical Derivative For Defense success, And It Shows Some. It’s Indicative Of Why Sean McVay Teams Struggle Against The 49ers This season And Could The Difference First round. On The Niners Final Game-Tying Drive. J.Garoppolo Opens The Drive, In The Shotgun Formation. He Takes A Quick Completion. Hits A short Pass right to Brandin Aiyuk, Who Found Soft Sot Behind The Zone. Aiyuk To The Pass for 21 yards Before Defensive Backs Nick Scott And Fulller Converge On Him. The Defense For Its Gaudy Sacks And Turnovers Are Only 15th Best In Scoring Defense. The Unit HAsnt Surrrendered Many Passing Touchdowns, Only 17; Its A. Bend Dont Break Philosophy. Which Had Been Auspicious When The Offense Establish “Immovable” Leads Early. The Offense Hasn’t held Ground In Recent Weeks Either. The Rushing Game Remains Near The Bottom Only Ten Touchdowns Score Compared to Eighteen Surrendered. All Stafford’s Team Have Had To rely on His On Bazooka Arm Talent With The Rams That Was Supposed To be Their Herculean Might. It's Now Their Achilles Heel.
11) San Francisco 49ers
The NFC’s Third best Team May Have Hidden Away Among the Middle along with The Middle All Season Long. The Niners Aren’t The Statistical Marvel Their NFC West Counterpart May Be. Quarterback Jimmy G Finish The Season with 3,310 Yards, 20 touchdowns, And 12. In The Era Passing Proliferation, The Yardstick of Four Thousand Yards remains The Established Mark Of Next Level Quarterbacks Though Jimmy Missed Time. The Niners Pass The “Eye” test, And The Offense Showed Sunday What A Niners Healthy And Rolling On All Cylinders. The 49ers Came Out of Half Time With The Season on The Line And Made Plays. The Offense Finished The Half with 449 total yards, including 135 on the ground to score 14 unanswered. A Late 88 yard Drive End With a game-tying touchdown, forcing overtime And Opening The Way For The Niners to Pull Out A gutsy win. The Lost A Ton Of Close Games Late, Only One Of Their Losses Were Two Score Differences On The Score Card. Injuries have Never Favored Garoppolo. But His Snap, Kick Back Rifle Release, And Needle Incision Like Accuracy ensures He And The Niners the Possibility of Another Playoff Run And Perhaps Another starting Gig With Perhaps Another Team With Trey Lance Experienced And Waiting. Pro Bowl Receiver Debo Samuel punched Home That Game Tying And Rams fate Sealing Touchdowns, Finished The Year With 14 Totals touchdowns, both Rushing And Receiving 1405 Yards in The 365 That’s 1770 Combined Defense The Niners Are Rank Eighth According To Profootballfocus. The Pass Ruch Lead By Nick Bosa Collapse On Quarterbacks For 48 sacks And 98 Tackles for Loss. The Niner’s D Forced 30 Turnovers Along The Way. The Niners Are One Of the Complete Team When Weighted Against.
12) Las Vegas Raiders
“ I Don’t Know Where the Lights Are Taking Us But Something In The Nigh Is Dangerous.”
The Raiders Are A Mean, Gritty Team. You want To commiserate Them for Their tragedy of A Story And A Season. Then They Do Raider things. In One Motion, They Ended Week Eighteen That Began With A Hum And Road Off Into The Night With A Cataclysmic Crescendo. We were all witnesses And Victims of This Raider’s Team(sorry). The Charger’s Once Promising Playoffs Hope. Any hope Of An AFC West First Round Shootout. All With The All-time Most Meaningless And Impactful Last Second kick ever. Daniel Carlsen 47 Yard Kick, It Screamed with Mercenary Gumption As It Narrowed through The nets. Affirmative Action. It felts As If the collective Gasped Of All Football Fans Had Expired in One Breathe. A Dizzying trip When Raider’s Nation Became A Black Hole. Vegas And Sportsbook Operations Saw A Star In the Darkened Vegas Sky.
They, The True Victors By the Results. “Bookmakers avoided a historic, multimillion-dollar loss….” Hide line Read In the Margins of The Game’s Final Word. The Raiders Are A harsh Judge for Anyone. It’s a trip Into Chaos and Depths And despair. Thanks To Derek Carr, The Raiders Are a top Ten passing Attack, which Means Little when trying To Distinguish Them from The Bunch Above And The Bunch below. Every team Has an ultimate ten Passing Attack. On The Season, The Raiders Have Three Multi-Win Win Streaks And Two Multiple Loss Streaks. Three early Wins Made The Raiders Look at all The Parts of A Contender. The Offense Stack Yards And Yards Of production And Build Leads Unscalable. The Raiders Under Gruden Threatened Downfield Constantly. Eventually, the team’s defenses Figure Them Out. Two Deep Shells And A Two-Game Losing ensued. The Raiders Look All The Part Discombobulated. Then Things Got Out Of Control. Then stability Came Late As Hopes Looked Faded. A Late Season Four Game Streak Propelled the Raiders Back Inti The Playoff Picture. Gutting Out Four Straight Tough close Wins. The Raiders were near the Dead last In Rushing all Season. Josh Jacobs Rush Into Relief a Misfiring Derek Carr, who Had 186 yards and two touchdowns Through 20 of 36 attempts. The team will need Jacob’s Up A Nose Dive 10 Yards To Set Up The field Goal. The Two Will Have To Be the best Senses Of Themselves In the Have Hopes to Continue the Raider’s Fate crushing Season.
13) Los Angeles Chargers-“This Is How A Heart Break.”
The Charger’s Playoff Hopes ended Well Before That Carlson Kick. Try Circa Week 15, Against The Lowly, hapless, Talented Devoid Texans. "Someone proposes the idea that theoretically they could just kneel for 70 minutes and end in a tie and both go to the playoffs." Theoretically Or Otherwise, The Idea Of That Idea Materializing On the Football Team would Be Ghastly. They were speaking of Ghastly, What A Way to End A Season. What A tragedy. Justin Herbert. In A Year of Impressive Quarterbacking, Justin Herbert Finished Unmatched for Overall Style, Nous, And Bravado. Herbert Finish His MVP-Style Year Second in Yards 5014 and Drop backs In the Pocket, And A 90.1 Passer Grade, 27 Big Time Throws, Profootballfocus terminology For “Amazement” And 13 turnover Plays, vocabulary For Less Amazement. Only Two Other Quarterback Have Fewer TWPs In The Top Of List of Big Time Throw Leaders. When Herbert Completed A pass Over the middle to M.Williams for 47 Yards, The Chargers became the first team in the past 30 seasons to convert on fourth down six times in a game(Per Espn). Four In The Second Half All Resulting in Scores. All By the Arm Of Justin Herbert. The Most Impressive Of Coming on The chargers Third Touchdown On The Comeback Bid. Justin Herbert finds Joshua Palmer For 23 Yard On fourth And 21 And A Touchdown. The Scoring Continue Through Herbert, Who Finished The Game With 64 Passing Attempts And 384 Yard, Connecting Austin Ekeler for A Two-Point Conversion. What's Been The Chargers Season. The Raiders Won, of course, But The Charger’s Heartbreak came In that Inexcusable Loss To Houston.
14) Philadelphia Eagles-
“Fly Eagles Fly.” The Ground And Pound Eagles Finished A Less Than illustrious season by Getting walked On By the Cowboys. But There’s Something To Be Said of This Eagle’s Emerging From A Two And Five Start And Making It Into The Playoffs. Too Many Storyline About Team Taking Bottomless Pit Style Starts Into The Playoff Are Virtually All Over. Slow Starts Were Like Top ten Passing Offenses. Every Team Has Them. Except for the Eagles. What Made the Eagles Rise Look Different, The Fact that They weren’t Expected To Climb… Sore Back. If This Were A year of Talent Acquisition And Evaluation for the Future, No One Would Fault them. Instead, they Started Winning.
Nick Sirianni Tailor The Offense To Quarterback Jalen Hurts, which Aren’t Always His Arm (73.6 Graded Passer) But his More than Capable Frame, IQ and Mobility(86.6 graded Runner). The rushing Game Only Starts With Hurts. Its Gets Power from Its Their Head Monster Backs. Of Three Jordan Howard, Myles Saunders, and Boston Scott, There’s Not Much of A Style Change. They Like To Get Down With Power and Thunderous gashes. How Long Can The Eagles, One The few teams To rush More Than Passed Last Stylistic? With Rookie Receiver Devonta Smith Coming Along, That’s a Question that Hopefully won't Persist Beyond This Season.
15) Arizona Cardinals
The Cardinal's high Octane Offense Girded On The Principle Of Thin Out The Defense And Striking Over Head Work Seamlessly Early. Kliff Kingsbury Learned What This Sports Write Learned A Few Words Back. This Marathon of An NFL Season will Climb The Stylistics And Force A few Grind it Out Late Season. The final Unbeaten Entering Week 8. The Cardinals Had All the Makings of A Cinderella Story Championship Run. Last Season Early Run Slump Because of Injury. The Cards Went out And Added A.J. Green And J.J. Watt a Year After trading for De’Andre Hopkins and The Looked Like A Menacing Group With Running Back James Conner Coming Over From Pittsburgh to Sure Up That Spot. It wasn’t So Much a Tale of Two Seasons for The Cards Rather A Tale Of Two results. The Score 30 Points Or More In Nines Game, Six of Those First Seven. After The Last Second Lost To The Packer’s, the Complication of The Season Changed. The Cardinals Got Back to their Point ways the following week, But they fumbled and Gasped When Kyler Murray Got Injured. With Murray Out, The Offense Couldn’t Out Run Its Limitation And Dependence on talent. The Cardinal Recover A Season That Looks All But Lost After Scoring 12 Points Against The Lions. Murray finishes A Stellar Season. 3787 Yards And 24 touchdowns, And 41 Big Time Throws behind Tom Brady. He’ll Need To do better with his decision-making in the playoff if he wants to continue to ascend to the playoff.
16) Baltimore Ravens.
The Ravens Couldn’t Escape The Injuries That Plagued into The Season And Became Dour Joke Late When Lamar Jackson Missed the Last 5 Games, and His Back-Up Tyler Huntley Who, In turn, Had to Surrender The Reign To 3rd String Josh Johnson A late Game Lost To Green bay Later. Josh Johnson finished With The best grading of Three In four and limited Snaps. Offensive Evolution Became A parody Of sorts. He Ravens May Need To Look Into Deepening Their PlayBook Beyond, “F*** It. Mark Andrews down there Somewhere.” Too at least accommodate Another Credible Target.
17) Indianapolis Colts- “That’s The Way Love Works out Sometimes.”
When the Colts Finish Apex of The Season 5-5, I Thought Their Playoffs Were All How To Say, Descending The Barren Ground Of A angular Formation(Going Downhill). They were still In The AFC Playoff Picture Because this Season Had That Chaotic Aura Of Uncertainty To Maintain. Eventually, They Hit A Soft Spot in The Season Add Got Grounded, Bucked, And Took Back Up The Mountain(hill). The Started Rushing The ball Rather than Leaning On The Liability of Carson Wentz. You Know by Now Jonathan Taylor finished the Season On; 211 Carries, 1,162 Rush yards, 5.5 per carrying, 12 Touch Downs. The Colts Won Six Of Seven Between Weeks 9-16. Needing One Win In The final To Secure A trio Back To The Playoffs. Another Slow Start Recovery Tale. How The Charger Found Themselves outside of The playoffs That Could Categorize As Abstract tragedy. Sad to See, But It’s the Natural recoil Of Failing to handle Business two Weeks Earlier. These Colts had An Abject Tragedy—a Complete Glitch And Meltdown Of The Core Processor. The Colts Survived Carson Wentz all Season But Couldn’t Overcome him Late With the Season on the line. He threw for more than 200 yards only twice over the final eight games. One Game, A 5 for 12, 57 Yard Lost To The Patriots, and A 11 for 20 106 To The Bills. The Colts Long Lost Season Ended “In perhaps the worst way possible.”
18) Pittsburgh-
"We don't have a chance. So, let's just go in and play and have fun." The Steelers Ara Not So Good That Fortunes Had found enough wayward opponents And enough tragedy At Large Ithe n Longest Season ever To Add Themselves To The Laundry List of Worst Teams To make It to The Playoffs. It's Tantamount To Lucking Into A Fortune. With Just As Much Odds. It's Like That one Episode of Futurama When Clamps Of The Robot Mafia Won Fry’s Best friend application Contest Because The Other Robot Candidates “all Kind Of Broke.” This Steelers team Had A Final Score tied with Winless Lions. This Team’s Only Reprieve Happens To Be The Fact That They Know It. “as a group, you understand that we probably aren't supposed to be here. We probably are not a very good football team.” Very Probably. But They Have beaten The odds. Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger Continue To Charge Through The Thickets In Prolonging His Long Regressed Career. No Longer The Mobile Tank, Breaking Away From “would Be” Sackers. Ben Resembles More Of Statue With A Wind up Toy Arm Attach. He Stands Prostrate in The Pocket And when He Throws The Ball The Target Area Could Be As Much A Guess To Me And His Team. Still, As Far As Quarterback’s Pass Their Prime, seasons Go Ben Has Had A Remarkable One. Three thousand seven hundred forty yards and 22 touchdowns. He Played All But One Game. That’s Impressive. Head coach Mike Tomlin Reportedly Dozed Off As The Results Of The Charger-Raider’s Game-- The One To Determine Whether He Would Need A Useless Game Plan The Following Otherwise Or Not—Came Through. It’s a Refreshing, Self-Awareness. What Matters When your End Come. It will Come when It Come, Says Shakespeare. This Week Or Next Week. By This Hand Or That Hand. Your Hand Or The Hand of Fate. Steeler OLB T.J Watt Tied The All-Time Sack Record. finishing The Season With 22.5 The Most In In 15 Games By Any Player. The Accomplish Still felt Flat. The Expectation Stood That He Would Crush The Record 2 or 3 Sacks. Instead It Tokk A late Season Goopled To Tie The Record
19) Seattle Seahawks
You Just Had The Feeling That The Mighty Muddied Middle Would Flatten Off At Some Point And Some Contender-ish Team Would Float At The Top Of It. The Seahawks Finished The Season 7-10. Which I Found Surprising Impressive. The Season Felt Long Over for This Team. A Gross Lack of Talented on Both Sides Of The Ball. Not To Mention. The Extended Loss Of The few Pieces of Capable Talents In Russell Wilson, Jamal Adams And Chris Carsons. The Seahawks Finished The Season As the only Team Ranked Within the EPSN FPI top Ten To Miss The Playoffs. With Russell Wilson Not So much As Regressing But Incapable Of Lifting A tremendously Inferior Roster Above Its Potential Sign Through Two Year. The Seahawks Organization Are Committed To Both He And Coach Pete Carroll For The Foreseeable Future.
20) New Orleans Saints- “Run That Back Turbo.”
The Saints As A Cold Reminder of a Life In The Shadow Of A retired Franchise Quarterback Resembles. The Saints Suited 3 And a Half Quarterbacks This Season. One Of Which Deserves To Hold A Clip Board on the Sideline, The Others Shouldn’t Be on An NFL Sideline—spearheaded By A defense That Kept Some near Out Of Control Losses Close and Turned Some Would Losses into Wins. The Saints Kept Their Playoffs alive in the last week. The Plans For A New Quarterback Are About a Year Away.
21) Minnesota Vikings
Here We Have The Vikings; Another Team, Another Season That Felt long Over Before The News Final Came Through the Cold on A Season That Had Just been unkind To The Vikings. Kirk Cousins Had A Crazy efficient Season, top Ten In yards(4,221), Touchdowns(33), And interceptions (7). Cousins Stay Near Evened Across The Months of the Season. Near A thousand Yards Each Month. But December got cold. Four Interceptions Over Last three Games played. Last In the Season Too Many Hungry Teams. Consistency Couldn’t Hold the Vikings spot In The Playoffs. Coach Mike Zimmer Got Fired After Eight Year. His Time with The Team Defined Between The Lines Of Two Moments “The Minneapolis Miracle” And The Lost to the 0-10-1 Lions in December with the Season still Alive. Few teams enter The offseason With Such A Existential quandary At Hand And a Future In The Mist.
22) Miami Dolphins
The Squeezed into The Playoff. Winning Seven Straight After Losing Seven straight. Unmatched in NFL history. If The Colts Found A Soft spot In The Schedule, The Dolphins Found A Hole. Games Against Houston And The Jets Made For Good Momentum Builder. The Titans Put An End To all Pandering Over The Last AFC wild Card Spot. Just Think In Alternate Universe Perhaps The Dolphins Are Preparing to Be Ran Over By the Chiefs. The Dolphins Finished The Season By Sweeping The Pats. Rookie First Round Receiver Set the Rookie Receiving Record.
23) Washington Football Teams
Of All the Purported Name Options, I Stood Stunned By The Revelation That The “Washington Wolves” Had been Pass On In The Consideration. The Alliteration Flow Flawlessly. And Wolves Are A Far Cry From The Former Moniker. I could write In Literary Tools All Day. One Of the Few Aspects Of A Porous Washington Offense, Running Back Antonio Gibson, Finished with Another 1,000 Yard Season. Otherwise, This Team has More Questions To Address Into And After February’s Name Change. The Defense Regressed Tremendously. The Predicted Outcome That All Surges Meet With Some Universes Correcting force: Gravity. Defensive rookie of the Year Chase young Became Ineffective Surprisingly. The Defense shouldered Most of The weighted expectations of A team That won Its Division Last year and An offense Mostly Available For ballast And In Line For A Much needed overhaul. That’s The real Underpins of Washington's “brotherly disagreement,” An Offense Lacking No Punch Will go In Search Of A quarterback. I Believe Kirk Cousins will be Available. Returning To The Organization That Drafted him And Now stands Convinced To Pay Him.
24) Denver Broncos
Another Team Strung Along Throughout A Long Season. The Broncos Owned Real-estate In The Top Ten In September, But We All Knew Success Wouldn’t Last In Denver. Injuries To Quarterback teddy Bridgewater And Others Along The Defensive Line derailed Most Of The team’s early momentum. After Starting 4-0, The Broncos Went 3-7 Over Their Last 10. At 7-7 Stood Alive for The Playoffs. After A Week 14 win Over The Lions, Hopes Remained Lit. The Broncos Never Won Again end the Season Conversely To How They. 0-4
25) Cleveland Browns
I Don’t Think Any Team Had A grander Conflation Than The Browns after Coming up A few plays Short of beating the Chiefs in the AFC Playoffs A year Ago. From Browns Keep Coming Up Short Most of Their Follow Season. The expectations Were Another Season of Experience For Baker Mayfield, And Myles Could Mean the Browns Could Challenge The Bills And Others For Control Of The AFC and Put Baker Mayfield In Some MVP Conversation. The Season Never Got rolling. The Rushing Attack Carried Over But the Passing Model Couldn’t evolve. Two And Three Tight End Sets made Winning “shootouts” Far too Difficult In League too Prone to “Shootouts.”
Not To mention A Lack of Faculty cohesion On Offense. The Browns Pass Rush Remained Strong Through the Season, And A Enviable Coverage Unit Ranked number in the League. The Brown Have A Ton Promising Pieces For Team Still Expected To Hover Around The Middle Of The AFC.
26) Chicago Bears
Please Refer To the Following year When Justin Field Becomes The Full-Time Starter. The Bear’s Regression felt Natural. Another Franchise Force Two double Dip On First Round quarterbacks, but I Think The Bear Got it Right This Time. This Defense Remain Combative, But It's aging and Overachieving By expected Reasoning. A New Head Could Mean A Entirely New Approach To Form and Football For The Bears.
27) Atlanta Falcons
The Falcons don’t Appear To Be In A Rush To Go In anyone's Direction, And The Options Aren’t Opening Up Downfield Much. The Organization Recent Drafts Success Suggest That A Strong Rebuilding effort Could The Falcons Rounding Back Into Contention Rookie Tight End Kyle Pitts Unprecedented Success As A Flex-Tight end And By Season’s End Became The Team Number One Receiving Treat With Calvin Ridley On Personal Leave. The Falcons Top pick Out of Florida Finished The Season 67 rec, 1028 Yards 15.1 Per Catch, And 45% Contested Catch Rate. Split His snaps Line Up Outside And In The Slot. Last Year’s First Rounder A.J. Terrell Finished On An Island. He led All Corner With A Minimum Of 600 snaps Played In Yards Per Reception, 6.9, Total Yards Surrender In Coverage 200, and Rec percentage of 43.9. Thirteen Pass breakups And A Passer rating Of 47.5. Matt Ryan still Holds Down The quarterback spot, And For Better Or Worse; I Can't imagine The Falcon Moving On From Him Despite The Pedestrian Season where He narrowly Missed 4000 Yards(3868), But An awful Lot of Masques In The Form Of 21 Turnover Worthy Plays.
28) Carolina Panthers
The Panther’s Season Got Life A slow Choke It Away The Moment Cam Newton Proclaimed “I’m Back!” It Seemed Like The Greatest PR Move for A-Team trying To convince Fans These teams Could Compete. But It Reminded Many Why Cam Got Left Behind In The Matt Rhule Era Of of Football. Cam Proved To be A Marginal Improvement Over PJ Walker. Sam Darnold Struggle With After a Promising Start Also Seemed Convincing Enough To Make The NFL world Believe Talent Could Still Hide Within His Arm. Matt Rhule Stood His Ground Amid Heavy Scrutiny. Given A seven Year Contract That Now As Ownership Ruminating Over Speculative Decision. Rhule Walk Into the Offseason Faces With Decisions About An Underperforming team He May Not be Behead Of The Turn Around In A Year.
29) Detroit Lions
Detroit Had A Spirited Rush To Finish Of Their 2021 Season That Always Looked More Auspicious Than It Played out. The Last Team To Earn A Win. The first Team To force A tie. With Promising Players Out wide And In The Trenches and A Number 2 Pick. The Lions Have Jared Goff’s Albatross of A Contract On The Books for at least a year. According to ESPN, Goff carries a $31.15 million cap hit vs. $30.5 million in dead money. But Goff Has Already inspired The Ire of Coach Dan Campbell Who’s Publicly Called His quarterback Out On Occasion. It wouldn’t surprise me if They Tried Out Another Young Quarterback Out To Grow Along First Round tight end T.J. Hockenson, fourth Round wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown and Second Year running back D'Andre Swift And Last Year’s Top Pick Penei Sewell. The Lion HAve A Dimmer View Of The Future Defensively. Second-Year Corner Jeff Okudah Missed all Of His Second Season With A Knee injury. According To ProfootballFocus the Lions Ranked in The Low 20s on Defense All Season And Only The Falcons Generate Less Pressure frequency All Season. The lion Have Some Flexibility At The Top Of The draft. One Of The elite Pass Rushers, Likely Kayvon Thibodeaux, Or Suring Up The Corner Position with a Lockdown Guy Like Derek Stingley Jr.
30) Houston Texans
The Texans Somehow Found themselves in A Comparable Quarterback Position With Its Contemporaries The Jets And Jags, Though with The top ten Pick. David Mills Came On And Played Some “Inspiring” Football. The Fourth Round Pick out of Stanford Stands Alone And unchallenged On The Texans Depth Chart At Quarterback. The Deshaun Watson Era Ended A Summer Ago With $32,188,712 Million In Cap Space. The Texans Could look To Add Another Player At The Skill Position Or vet To Challenge Their Perspective Prize At Quarterback.
31) Jacksonville Jaguars
It's A Toss Up From Here one, Mercifully Enough. The Ostensible Difference, I believe The Jags Have A More Or Less Combustible Quarterback Situation. Trevor Lawrence Had A Tough season, But He Played All Seventeen Games. And Started For The Teams Two Impressive-ish wins Over The Colts And Bills and lost His Head Coach. His To Targets consisted of Veteran Marvin Jones. Former Jags First Round Pick Laviskas Shenault And Former First Round Vikings Cast Off Laquon Treadwell. The Jags Have A lot of Work To Do, Starting At Head Coach.
32) New York Jets
The Jets Are Beginning To run Thin On First Round Quarterback. At Some Point, One Of These Has Guys have got To Stick. The Concerns Over Zach Wilson Strength Turned out To be accurate, But That Didn’t Hurt His Average Depth Of Target Results. Wilson Finished His First Number Season As the Jets Starter Place Holder Until Arch Manning Becomes Draft Eligible. 2334 And Nine Touchdown.
33) New York Giants
The Giants Have Expended A lot of High Graded, Choice Capital To be The Worse Team In Football. This Giants Team Started The Season Indisputably Dupe By Not Addressing The Thing Thread Of Quarterback Behind Daniel Jones. For things To Play: Third String Jake Fromm Instead Of the Injured 400 Yard Throwing Daniel Jones, heading Into Nowhere And a Seven Point Finish. It’s Classic Big Blue Boom Or Bust Prologue. The Giants Started This Rebuild on The Curtails of The Prolonged Eli Era. Now It's Without A Coach, GM, No Clearer View Of its Quarterback, Some flawed Free Agent Contract And No End In Sights To Its wayward Dream of Contention.
