Quarterly Power Rankings: 9-16.

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 It’s the  Quarter Mark Of The NFL  Season. We Seen Studied Overrated To Some Of The NFL’s Best, Worst And The In-Between. The Power ranking Picture is Beginning To become A lot clearer. The NFL Charge Up Out of the Curtains of the New Normal And It Been Business As Usual, Except when It wasn’t In Week one.  As Most would Have Expected It the Bucs And Rams Are Good The Lions And Jags Are Bad. In Between Those two Polar Points Is a Middle ground of teams Shuffling in And Out of The Top Ten And The Middle Teens. Then There Are the Teams Playing Unexpectedly Good But No Can Quite mark Where They Belong. Also, Possibly an Imposter Wearing Old Rags Amongst The Top 10

9. Baltimore Ravens (2-1)

The Ravens Are The Quagmire Of the Top ten And their Quarterback is An Even greater Quagmire at the Position; Where they Register In The top ten Deserves A Case Study. The Ravens Promising Offensive Glided Offseason Appeared To be Almost Cut off The Rail After Infectious Injury Bug But they Ride The Storm Now Stand With Two Impressive Victories Over Two Teams In AFC Contention, in the Cheifs And Broncos. Lamar Jackson Is Electric But He’s Just An Above Average Paaser He only completed 16 of his 31 pass attempts for 287 yards, one touchdown, and one interception AgainsT tHe Lions And Found Himself Planted four Times. His Deep Throw Potentially Hasn’t Improve Much, Minus An Explosive Play From the time, Jackson Has Completed On 37.5% Of His Deep Passes. He Averages About 14 Yards Per Attempt Which Is a Weaker Offering Than Jets Rookie QB Zach Wilson. Jackson Works Best When He is Getting the Ball Out Fast, To The Boundaries where His Playmaker can Maximize Their YAC Potential. What Would Jackson be Without His Legs? He’s Been on His Wheels With 279 Yards In Four Games On 6.6 Yards Per Attempt. But His Trouble with Fumbles, 4, On the Season Suggests He May wants To relent when Breaking The Pocket, which Is something He’s Apt To Do. Surrounding  Jackson  Wide Reivers Are Just As “Abstruse”. Hollywood brown Stretches the Field And Provides Big Play Potential But He Struggled With Drops Against The Lions. He Leads The team with 326 yards But is prone To Lapses Like the 53 He Posted Against the Lions. Overall The Ravens Defense Is Ranked 18th, 10 Sacks In 4 Games Lead By Odafe Oweh Who Has Two And Is Coincidentally The Highest Rated Coverage Guy On The Team. Before Their Beat down Of The Broncos, The Ravens Were Minus 3 In Point Deferential But the Team is Still 8th On offense. The Schedule Lighteneds Up With The Colts next Week Sunday.

 

10. Carolina Panthers (3-1)

How Do You Spell Carolina Without Spelling D-E-F-E-N-S-E; Oh Yeah 3-1. Being Undefeated Would Last For Ever. Sunday Outing Against The Cowboys Planted The Panthers For The First Time This Season 36-28 after being “tested” After Mostly Watered Down Competition The Panthers Are left To Respond To The Critics. Nevertheless, the Loss Was still a valuable Outing For The NFC South Co-Leaders. Sam Darnold Had Another Impressive Oting. Sunday Marked His Third Straight 300 Plus yard Game For The Season, he Had 4 Such games In His Three Season to Begin His Career, Combined. His Accuracy Amd Location Has Improved In Joe Bardy’s Scheme, And He’d Had Only One Pick Coming into Sunday’s Play. Darnold Top target, D J Moore Finished Sunday’s Play with 8 receptions For 113 yards Moore is getting open down Field with an average depth of target 10.5, And his run After the Catch is also Double Figure. The panther Traded their Number 1 tight end  Dan Arnold  To sure A Wounded. The Number Defense In the League Has Been Getting In After The Passer, 17 Sacks, 17 pressures and The Back End Hasn’t Given Up A 300-yard passer On The Season And Held Dak Prescott To 188 yards On 22 throws. The Panthers Number 1 Rush Defense Surrendered Their first 100 Plus Yard Runner Against Zeke. Going Forward the Panthers Expected To be without First-round Pick Jaycee Horn Who Suffered A Broken Foot In week 3. Former First-Round Pick and New Acquisition CJ Henderson Haasnt Been Acclimated To The Team Yet but He Should at least have Provided Some Stability Across from Donte Jackson In Jaycee Horn’s Absence.  Despite this, the Panthers Aren’t The “Sexy” pick For a Top ten Team.

11. Denver Broncos (3-0)

1-0 Is Unproven. 2-0 is Under examination. 3-0 is Under review, 3-1 After A Sunday Loss to The Ravens, A Harbinger.  If Those Three Victories were Dominations of three teams Battling For The Number 1 Pick In 2022 what Can Be Value Through them. The Broncos the League’s Second Best Defense by Ranking Are three wins that have come against the Giants, Jaguars, and Jets, who are a combined 2-10, With The Jets And Giants Only recently Spell That The Opposes Record From Being 0-12. Two Of the Quarterbacks are  Turnover prone Rookies, the Other Quarterback Is Piratically Playing like One. The FPI Projects The Broncos to finish with 10.8 wins, the fourth-highest mark of anybody in football, Now With Drew Lock In At QB All Manner Of Projections and Formulas Are scrapped, And Reimagined. Teddy Bridgewater Was Pushing 72% of His Passes for 892 yards And 5 Touchdowns Zero Picks And a 110. Passer rating Before He Left Sundays Affair With a Concussion. Drew Lock, The Incumbent Who lost the Starting Job To Bridge water, Work The Pocket In Interim, He completed 12 of 21 passes for 113 yards and an interception in his half of work. The Broncos Managed Just Seven Points On Bridgewaters Only touchdown And Locks Interception was The first Broncos QB Turnover. The Broncos Defense is Only Allowing 12.3 Points Per Game And His 6th Most Interceptions On the Season And. 4th In Yards Allowed.

 

12. Green Bay Packers (2-1)

The Packers Became the Exhibit A For The week 1 Overreaction. The Aaron Rodgers Return Ton What is presumed To be his Last Ride With Lambeau Field  Was Intermission By A Saints Team Whose Defense Made A Statement Against The MVP. The Packers Were held To Three Points, 229 Yards Of offense 43 of which Came on  The Ground And Woeful 1/10 3rd Down Efficiency. Rodgers Threw two picks And finished With A 36.8 Passer rating. The Green Bay Starter Didn’t Look incapable, As if he Were Pushing Towards the Cliff Of his Career,  But He Missed on Plays We’ve Come to Expect As Par the Course. Over Throws Deep And Overlooking of Check Downs. The Packer Were 17-3 by half And Looked “powerless” At  Producing On the Ground. They Bounced Back the Following week Versus Everybody’s Favorite Rebound the Lions and Stunned off The 49ers In week 3. Rodgers recovered Some of The Magic. 23/33 With a Passer Rating Of 113.3 and two touchdowns. Somehow Despite Rodger Intermittent Struggle And Vulnerability At Wide Receiver The Packers Failed to Address in the Off-Season Devantae Adams has been Exceptional. A testament to His greatness Adams s Leading The League in Receptions with 25, 4th In yards With 309 And third in position Rating And tied For First In target. Overall the Packers Are A Middle In Overall categories, 14th in Offense, and 16th in defense.

 

13. Kansas City Cheifs (3-0)

Former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev Said It Best “Our Power Is Found In The Illusion Of Our Power.” What The Chiefs Have Exposed Most In These Three Weeks; Not Only They Not The Team A Year Ago or To Years Ago but The Are No Longer The Hinted But Just Another Animal In The Jungle. You Have to Climb The Mountain All Over Again. The Cheifs Squeeze Out A Unexpected win Against The Browns In week 1. The Game wasn’t Over Until Mahomes Put Together Another Moment of Inflatable Brilliance. The Cheifs Are Mistaken If They Have been Induced By the Tail That One elite Quarterback Can Make Amends For A Team’s Holes. Mahomes Is Human And for His magic he Has His Misses. In Week 3 Against The Chargers In Arrowhead, Mahomes Rifled A  “routine”  Dart  That Glided Throw Tight end Resulted In A Interception. Mahomes Is Still Great But He Hasn’t Eclipse 300 Yards In his Last Two Outings. A Near Lost To Cleveland, followed By Actual Losses To Baltimore And The Chargers result In The Chiefs Looking far Into A Distant Mirror. The Lossing Paused with the Win Over The Eagles But Another AFC West Title Is No Longer The Far Gine Conclusion Its Been These Past Two Seasons.

 

14. San Francisco 49ers (2-2)

The 49ers have Suffered Two Straight Losses, And Sunday’s Lost To Seattle Served A  Major Step back on The Road To Superbowl Recovery.  The 28-21 Loss, At Home no Less, Now Forced The Niners  To The Bottom Of the Division. A Week Ago Seattle Was The Primary Concern In NFC West But The Niners 2-0 Start Is In The rearview And With The Division Play On The Horizon San Fran Could Be Inn Trouble Out West. The Niners has An Impressive Lineup Of Talent On  Defense But talent Does Not Always Equate To Success. Their Cover Corner Are Decent But They Don’t Make “Game Altering” Plays AMrk By Just 1 interception In 4 Games. The Pass Rush has 9 Sack Led by Nick Bosa Who Has three But The Miss Tackle Percentage Is Above average And It’s Often in Big Moments When They Miss Plays. Jimmy Garroplo Left Sundays Game With An Injury and The Niners Lifted Trey ALnce Into The Starters Spot Ahead Of Schedule. Lance finished 9 for 18 for 157 yards with the two scores for a passer rating of 117.1 and rushed for 41 yards on Scampers. Lance Settle down After Nerves Rattled His initial Approach as for The Starter.

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Cincinnati Bengals (3-1)

The Bengals Offense has been Nothings short Of Impressive. Out Wide Jamar Chase And Tee Higgins Stretch Defenses Thin And In Between The Numbers Tight Uzomah And Slot Receiver Tyler Boyd, Joe Burrow In Hs Second Recovering From ACL injury. The team Has Gutted Out Some Tough Victory. The Bengals Are atop Their Divison At Least That is If You Trust ESPN’s Standards. 1st In the AFC North reads With the Boldness of A Movie title on A Poster Not To Say The Bengals  Are The Class of The Division, Cleveland And Baltimore Are Both 3-1 And The Fact that the 3 teams the Bengals Have Beaten are A Combine 2-10 The Only Loss a 3 Falling To the Resurgent Bear, Doesn’t Project further. Cincy will Have A Chance To Justify their Position When they Face The Packers Next Week. Joe Burrow Has 988 Yards On The Season With a 72% completion percentage For Touchdowns. Burrow Ahs has Been Sack 11 Times On The Season, Jamar Chase Is Gearing Up For One Of The Best Season In Rookie Receiving Season In  The Record books. Chase Has 293 yards And 4 TDs But with a Guy Like Rashawn Slater Holding Down Justin Herbert Flank In San Diego, if Burrow beating Persist, there is Always going To be Skepticism Surrounding him The Decision  On Passing On A Offensive Linemen.

 

 

16. Tennessee Titans (2-2)

Derrrick HenRy is UnAssuming Sitting On 512 yards In Four Games; That’s 127.5 per game And 4 Touchdowns, All Ranks of 1st at the Running Back Position. For Perspective through his First 4 Games Of His 2027 Yard rushing season, Henry First 4 games he racked Up 376 Yards, Before he Explode for 212 In Week 5 2020. This year The Passing Game Isnt The Liablility It was At Some Points Last Season. Ryan taanehilll is rank in 90th Percentil of Quaerterbacks With 1054 Yards On the Season. The Passing Offnse Is 5th. Starting Wide Reciever AJ Brown And Julio Jones missed time With injuries So there is Potentail For Greater Heights Is Tennessee. The defense Is Ranked Just 29th In Pressure Production and 18th In Coverage And 22nd Overall.

 

 

17. New Orleans Saints (2-2)

The Saints Have Been “excusable” Thus far, And  By Limiting Jamies Winston’s Exposure and Consequently His Mistake And His Impact They May Just Stay “excusable” for The Greater Length Of This Season. Sean Payton Has Hardly called On Winston To Do More Than Move The Ball away From The saints Side Of field And Hoping He Achieve This Without Giving The BAll away. Who Dared Dream The Saints as contenders After week 1 Fell For The Trap Of Week 1 Overaction. Beating The Packers Was impressive But The Team is 31st In Passing Offense And Starter Jameis Winston is Only Averaging A Little More Than 20 Pass attempts  And The 225 Versus The Giants Was His Best Outing Of The Season. The Game Plan Is To Leans On their 7th Rank Rushing Offense Lead By As Always Alvin Kamara Who Is Sixth In The League In Carries. Sean Payton Clearly Trust Not Winston And The Team Is Coming of A Home Lost to the Giants.

 

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