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Week 13 Welcomes In The Fifth Edition Of My Power RankingsThis Year. The First, Located Somewhere In May; The Perfunctory Post Draft Assessment. Speaking, MY Mock Draft Was Is Here. How Any First Rounders Have Made A Differences This Season. It Starts With The Patriots Mac Jones.
The Leading Offensive Rookie of The Year Candidates Has a 70% Completion Percentage, The Best In His Rookie class By Far. Jones Owns League record Amongst the Rookie Quarterbacks In History. The MAc Is A Big Deal In Boston. Three Passing Attempts On Sunday Helped Jones Stay Ahead Of A Vaunted Bill’s Passing Defense. In Due To Some Shrewed Schematic Forbearance. Coach Belichick Now Hold Lead On The Coach of The Year Award keeps He And The Pats’ equanimity In House The Patriots Hold The Best Odds To Represent the AFC In LA.
So What of The Narratives, So May painted For This Pats’ Team. Destined To Be More Of A Project, Not Another Arm Of The Dynasty. Jones’s Pace To Break Both Dak’s Percentage record And Andres Luck’s Rookie Yardage Record.
Speaking Of LA. The Chargers Aand The Rams Have Seen Their Play Stare Into The “Suboptimal” Community Before Regaining Power Staring And Rolling Back Into The Hills.
Rashawn Slater, The former Front Runner Offensive Rookie Of The Year, is Still Of The Highest Graded rookie Overall for the Chargers. Of All Left Tackles Who Have Played More Than 800 Snaps Slater Has Allowed The Second Fewest Hurries Surrendered. Bringing Another Realm Of glory To The Term “Trenchwork. He’s The Reason Justin Herbert Can Rest So Comfortable In The Pocket To Secure 700 Completions in His 27 Games. Fastest In NFL History.
Kyler Recovered From A Injury, But His Way Back To Rhythm Is Still Always To Go. The former MVP Front Runner Mustered 257 Yards Of Offense But Against the Bears, No More Being Necessary. The Cardinals retained the top spot in the NFC and, In The Process, become the NFL's first 10-win team this season/ Tom Brady Will Most Likely Take Home The MVP.
The Goat Finish Sundays Affair Against The Always Eager-to-Be-On-The-Wrong-Side-Of-History Falcons. With 4 “Tuddies” His Forth Game of Such this Season. Every Other Player Who Has Nothing This Feat Has Won MVP Decisively. If Brady Holds On, To Lead, He’ll Be The second Quarterback(Player) To Win MVP With Two Teams And The Only MVP Pass Forty.
Week 13 Played and In Its Wake, Unrest And Cosmic Backlash. Several “Contenders” Put Their Hands Forth To Shape, form And Found the Structure of Playoffs.
A near Full Week Of Team Play. Minus the Panthers And Packers.
Their Lack of Presence Didn’t Matter Much By the end Of Sunday. The Chiefs Are Finally Squared Well To Make A Playoff run, But A. Chargers Thrashing of Cincy Did little to Settle Affairs Out west. The Raiders are trending Backwards. Sunday Night Will Be remembered As the Straw that Broke The Broncos Back.
The Packers are Still hot, Even if They Didn’t Play. The Vikes Had Glimmer of Hope To Dethroned The Pack, Mathematically. But Hope is home in Detroit For One Week. The Rams resurged. They And the Pack Still Hold Only Marginal Room Over the NFC’s Contenders. The Cowboys Would be One of that Contender. The Boys had something To prove On Thursday, After A Mess Of Thanksgiving Game. I thought It Sacrilegious To Refer to The Thanksgiving Slate As “Unforgiven”.
“Is seventeen Weeks of Football too much?”
I Know There is No Such Thing as “too Much football—it’s just An observation. You Know. In Physics. How Objects can Approach the Speed of Light but Never Move At the Exact Rate Of Speed. Are We veering too Close To that Observation?
When teams play As bad As the Ravens And Chargers Did In Week 12. Unfortunately, it is.
Now The Flame is Rekindled. The Ravens Were bad, but That’s ok.
The Way my thanksgiving plate Had No Sides Or Rice Or turkey. It was A lot Of “Air,” Like Kirk Cousens’s Passes Against The 49ers.
Or Has My Third Cup of Coffee, fifteenth Sports Article Read, And 2 Football Breakdown In As Many Week Simply Got me Overstimulated And Blue?
Is This How Eagles Fans Feel? They Were Flying High Entering Sunday. Jalen hurts, He Is The Guy. Playoffs, “We Do This.” NFC, Another Contender Amongst Your Grounded Bunch. But The Cowboys Are Not Letting Go off the Division. Last Year’s Division Champs Are Not So Much As Back But threatening To Be Back.
The Best teams Have Set Out An Early Segment of the Landscape. Nearly All Division Leaders Have At least An 80% Chance Of Making The Playoffs. The Earnest parity Is At The Bottom, So To Say. They Too Are The Threats To The Upper Echelon.
No Matter Who Arrives At LA’s Doorstep, Only One team, From Each Conference will Have A Foot Through Earlier.
Each Conference Gets Seven Playoff Spots.
One bye.
A Bye-Week Is No Guarantee, But At least One Team With A Bye Has Always Played In The Superbowl Since the Late 70s.
Every NFC Team Is Still Alive In The Hunt For The Playoffs. Including The One Win Lions. Mathematically, Alive. Survival, Improbable. In The Hunt For The Bye, The Top Tier Of The NFC Can tilt The First Domino This Weekend.
The Bucs, Cards, And Packers can Marked Out The Bye as Theirs. Each team Would Have To Win Out. The Cards Cant Finished Tied With The Packers Because of The Head To Head Tie Breaker. Same For The Bucs, who Had A Better Record Overall But A Weaker Conference Record. All Three Bucs Losses Have Come Against NFC Foes. Three NFC West Team Hold Playoff Spots Currently. As Well As Positive point differentials, But They All Face One Or The Other Once down The Stretch. With the Niners Having The Easiest Slate Overall.
Over On The AFC Side Of Things, It's Still A Puzzle. The Texans, Mathematically Eliminated.
Because of Some Quirks In The Scheduling That Left Some Team Late To Division Play. The Jets and The Jags Haven’t Arrive In The Heap Yet, But They To Tag In Soon.
Otherwise, The AFC Playoff Picture could Go The Way Of A Lamar Jackson Scramble.
Left, Right, Accelerate, Pause, Breakdown.
No AFC team can clinch a playoff berth in Week 14. The third Time The conference has not had any playoff-clinching scenarios before Week 15 since 2002 And 2014.
1. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (9-3)
The Best Bet For your Bank, The Bucs To Take It All. Pun Quasi-intended. Brady Still Has The Bucs favored To win It all By MGM, And Pro Football Focus. The Bucs Are Now 3-2 Over the Past 5 Games. Not the Strongest Marker For tremendous Success To come, But Two In Row And Potentially Climbing could Be. The Bucs Execute Better Than Any Other Team, except The Other Team Fame For Its Foray With Brady. In The Vein Of The Brady-Belichick Patriots, The Bucs Utilize Multiple Forms on Offense To win Games. The Bucs Will Run Away With The Best Passing Offense, Mostly Unchallenged. Brady Threw 51 Passes Sunday For 361 Yards. A Sunday Before The Bucs, Leonard Fournette Sledgehammered The Colts, And The Bucs Still Eclipsed Thirty Points. In A Sense, The Bucs Can Chameleon. Take On Multiple Iterations of themselves As The Moment Beckons. This Season The Moment Has Beckon As The Need For Momentum Has risen. With Antonio Brown Future’s Resting Quietly In A Murky Seller In Tom Brady’s Home. Brady’s Connectivity With Godwin And Evans Still Taking Form. The Bucs The Cam Lean On The Multitude of The Buc’s strength To Win. Also, Gronk has Returned To His Ungradable Form. A Week 14 Matchup Against Another Team, The Bills; A Franchise Brady’s History HAs Also Endiliable Mark. This Late Season Matchup Of Teams Evenly Balance In Propensity To Pass And Defend The Pass, Gives The Bucs Another Opportunity To Lend Into The Patriots Teams. A team The Bucs Appear To HAve Destiny Bond. Tampa’s Talented Air Attack Could Find It Worrisome To Challenge A Bills Team Giving Up Less Than 200 Passing Yards Per Game. Leonard Fournette Could be Called Upon for Another Big Game.
2. Arizona Cardinals (10-2)
The Cardinals Return To Full-Form This Weekend. Well, At Least The Team Is Healthy. The Offense That Inspires Much Awe Early in The Year Sputtered. Kyler Murray Struggled To generate Offense from The Pocket. He Scrambled For Two endzone Touchdown, But The Former MVP finished with an average Quarterback Rating of 85.6. There Remains Something Unconvincing About this team. Similar To Those Drew Brees Saints Of The 2010s or The Peyton Manning Colts of the 2000s. They Inflate Numbers And Win Games, inflate Offensive Production. But That Flash All But vanishes In January. The Card’s Produced 257 Yards of Total Offense. The Defense Cleaned up On A Mostly Out-Classed Bears team. The Cards Forced or In Some Situations Happened Upon, four turnovers(interceptions). Still, The Defense, Lead By NFC Player Of The Week Jordan Hicks, Surrendered 300 Plus Yards To A Bears Team Struggling To Field An NFL Quality Offense. If Andy Dalton And His Receivers Learned The Principals Of Ball Security, Who Knows What 33-22 Finish Could Have Looked Like Instead.
3. Green Bay Packers (9-3)
The Packer’s Defense Continues To Impress. A Universe in which Green Bay failed To Meet Up with the Bucs In Nan FC Rematch May Only be A Quirk of Scheduling. Whiles Study The Film Of The Pack’s Matchup Against The Rams. My Eyes Focus And Following The Struggles Of Matthew Stafford. Number 52, former First Round Pick Rashaan Gary consistently Stole The View. Gary Spent So Much of Week 12s Matchup In Stafford Lap You’d Think The Ram’s Quarterback Was Santa. The Pack Is One Of The Best Teams At Producing Pressure. Between Gary, Kingsley Keke, And Preston Smith, The Packers Produced 2 Sacks, 2 Hits, 15 Hurries, And A Massive 14 Stops(first Down Conversions Negated). The offense Is Still Getting MVP Level Contribution From Rodgers But Ranked 13th Overall won't Suffice It If The Bucs Come To Turn Or If The Pack Have To Head South.
4. New England Patriots (9-4)
Who? Mac Jones. Better Than, Who? Tom Brady? Wait. At this Stage In Their Careers, Jones is. Threatening Brady’s status as the Goat, Unlikely But The Patriots Are Quickly Threatening To Undo Brady Legacy. The Best Odds To Represent The AFC In The Superbowl. After Week 13, The Stand Alone With the Best Odds To Win The Superbowl. Yes, Win. The Narrative They Wrote For The Pats Before The Season Got Sent Back. “ That’s Why We Practice In this S***.”. The World Dreads A Season-Ending With Brady Against Belichick. Like Brady, If Jones Should Lead The Pats Back To The Promise Land. He will Have To Lean on the Complete Effort of The Patriots Team to continue The Pats Momentum.
5. Dallas Cowboys (8-4)
6. . Kansas City Chiefs (8-4
The Chief Have Risen once Again. The Football gods Are merciful. The Prayer For Balanced In The AFC Have Not returned Voided. The Chiefs Are in A virtual Lock With Pats And Titans Atop The AFC. Only Pats Appear Hotter. Chief Have won Their Last 4 Of 5 After Starting Below .500. Mahomes Is Stricken By the Hapless tuner over Curse. The Awe-inspiring Throws He made look Routine Have Come Back Catastrophic this Season's Turnovers. Moreover, The Ground The Chiefs Stand On Is Murky. Any Loss Could Send The Tumbling to Tartarus.
7. Tennessee Titans (8-4)
8. Los Angeles Rams (8-4)
9. Los Angeles Chargers (7-5)
10. Indianapolis Colts (7-6)
11. Baltimore Ravens (8-4)
For The glut Of The Season, The Ravens have battled the Balancing Act. Tailoring The Offense To Their Power Running Game. Managing Their Sometimes Explosive Other Times Exploitable, Turnover Prone Quarterback. Judiciously Picking their Spots for Shots Downfield In Hopes To Keep The Defense honest. Tight end In Mark Andrews, who I Must Admit Happens To Be More Capable Than I Care To Confess, (I Hate the Ravens!). Andrews Lead The Team, And Is Second In The League Amongst Tights End in Targets, Receptions, And Yardage. His Yardage gets distributed around And balanced Across The field. 211 Yards Deep(20+), 296 Yards Medium (10-19), 291 Slot (0-9). Andrews Lines Up Inline And Flex Out Tight End And As the Best Receiving Option for The Ravens In All cases. They are defensive Woes, Beginning With Blitzing.
The Ravens Have To Worry About Vulnerabilities In Pass Defense. Pro Bowl Marlon Humphrey, Out for The Season. He And The Raves Depleted cornerbacks Were Getting Eviscerated By Teams Knowledgeable enough To recognize The Ravens’ Limitation. That balancing Act as Now shuffling the Ravens Outside of The AFC’s top Spot. Lamar Jackson Threw four Interceptions In An Ugly win Over The Browns. Than Against The Steelers Opted To Run And Got Punished The Tune Of 7 Sacks. Over their final five games, Baltimore’s scheduled to get Rougher Than watching them Play. To play four teams that currently hold winning records and one that is .500. Worse Over The Ravens Could Find themselves Without a Division lead After A Late Season Lost To The Steelers And A Bengals Team Not Playing Their Best But Otherworldly Competitive When they are.
12. Buffalo Bills (7-5)
13. San Francisco 49ers (6-6)
14. Cincinnati Bengals (7-5)
I Cant Approximate whether Defenses Have Figured Jamar Chase Out Or If The Record-Setting Rookie Has Lost His Rhythm Resulting in Poor Playing. But It’s clear that Opposing teams Have Figured Jamar Chase Out, And As A Result, He’s playing poorly. The LSU Product, Tamed. “ I Double Caught It,” Chase explained, Referring To The Play, Some Saw As A Highlight That Could Have Gone Either teams’ way. The Chargers Had Favor on Their Side. Beyond Convinced It would Have Been A Touchdown and ultimately Resulted In The Bengal’s “Slow Crawled” Momentum Hitting A Brick Wall After falling Behind Big Against The chargers. Double catches rarely Result In Receptions; in best Cases, The Receiver Composes Himself Before He Is Toss Out of Bonds By Force. Their Own or the defenses.
Double Catches, Often Result In Drops Credited As A ‘Lack Of Focus.’ In Chase’s Case, On Sunday, It resulted In A Interception. Since Week 7’s Monster 201 Yards Performance. The Bengal’s Number One Receiving Option Hasn’t Finished With More 52 Yards in A Game. His Drop Rate In The Span(Week 7 -13) climb from 0 To 18%. His Targets have Contracted. Burrow Hasn’t Looked Chase’s Way With Consistency. Chase Is Still Rated As One The League Best Deep Threats, Graded In The Top 90th Percentile According To Pro football focus. But The results And Grades Are skewed. Chase has Been 1/9 On deep Throws Throughout That Stretch. His Dormancy Has Made Way for tee Higgins To emerge As Late Season top Option. A Second Year Man Out Of Clemson. Higgins Recorded back-to-back 100 yard Games For The First Time This Season And is Now on Pace For Well Over 1000 Yards On the Season. The Bengals Have Struggle To Further The Agenda Of Making Joe Mixon The focal Point Of The Offense. The Featured Back Finished With 52 Yards 2.8 Yards Per Play Against The Chargers. Unfortunately, The Defense Is No More Than the Middle Of The Pack. Joe Burrow Leads The League In the Interception, But The Bengals Are Forced To ride their Top 10 Passing offense Into The Playoffs.
15. Pittsburgh Steelers (6-5-1)
16. Minnesota Vikings (5-7)
I Entered Suicide Watch On Sunday; Again! A Loss To The 49ers. That Could Be Justified and Accepted. Not Excusable, But At least Palatable. The forty Niners Have A Talented Roster of underachievers. Two NFC Foes Played Close. The result Could Have Swung Either Teams way. It Came Down To A Few Plays That defined Both Teams Seasons. The Viking Passing Offense Failing To Convert Plays Into Point When Need Be. In a Must-Win Game For Both Sides. Every Game For The Vikings After Overcoming The Packers Is Must win. With Two Spots Open In The NFC Playoff Picture. A roster Too Talented To Not Be Playing Into January. Every Play Is A Must Win. Thankfully. The NFC Muddied Middle Is So Competitive And Rapaciously Cannibalistic. For A While, It's Safe To Assume No one Team Is marching To Far Ahead of Another. A Stretch Beginning with Lions Before Ascending Through The Thorough Competitive Foliage Could be The Bounce Back The Vikings Needed. Then Sunday Came. And with It, Perplexity. If The Viking Looked Past The Lions. Thinking Of The Prevailing Matchup With The Surging Steelers. Then Surrendering A Game Late In The season To The Lions, Who Had Nothing But More Shame To Play For, could Be Perceived As Just Jaw-dropping And Not Ludicrous.
Lions That Play fourth Quarter Football With The Focus of Junior High Student In Late afternoon detention Session. Two teams Who Struggle To Finish Victory. One Team Needing the Win More Than The other. Playing “off And Soft.”. The Play Poor A Conservative On Third Down. The Vikings “Body language” Yes Body Language Read A-Team Assuming A Win, Gifted To Them. Even when Detroit Took A 17-6 Lead, instead, despite A Late “Have At, It.” The Vikings Gifted A potential Playoff Berth To The winds. Two Heartbreaking Losses In A Row. Bewilderment Is Now The State Of Affairs for The Vikings.
17. Washington Football Team (6-6)
18. Miami Dolphins (6-7)
19. Cleveland Browns (6-6)
20. Philadelphia Eagles (6-7)
The Eagles Roused Fans of The Team and Football To Near bone Collapsing Awe With A Promotional Video. Hailing The Teams Recent Run On The League. A Two-Game Winning Streak, Three of four Put The Eagles Back into the Playoff Race. Forty Points on The Saints put The eagles Back In the Conversation. Any Conversation. A feat we Were Appreciated To With Expected Reverence. The Eagles Then Preceded To Lose To The NFC East Lowliest Team, The Giants. They Lost On-Again Off-Again QB Prospect Jalen Hurts, who Had Been A Promising Run Before Being Sidelined. The Eagles, Forced To Start Gardner Minshew May Have Step of their Unprescribed Chances to Make The Playoffs. Former Starter With Jacksonville. Thankfully New York’s Other Lowliest Team Didn’t Pose As Much As Contest. Minchew Finished With 242 Yards And 2 Touchdowns.
21. New Orleans Saints (5-7)
22. Denver Broncos (6-6)
23. Carolina Panthers (5-7)
24. Las Vegas Raiders (6-6)
The Raiders Are Down And Out Of The Mix for The Second Time This Season. Though Not Out Of The Running Completely, for the Second Time This Season. A big win Against Dallas On Thanksgiving. Followed by A Suffocating loss To The WFT Team. Three Of Their Final Five Are On The road Against teams All Muddied And Tangled In A Pile Of AFC Playoff Contenders. The Raiders May Bulk And Look To Next Season, For The Second Time. Derek Carr Flamethrower is Still Hot. With His Receivers Dropping From the Team In Quick Succession
25. Seattle Seahawks (4-8)
26. Atlanta Falcons (5-7)
27. New York Giants (4-8)
28. Chicago Bears (4-8)
The Bears Defense Has Been Playing “Impactfully” As of Late. Never mind the Amount Of Game They Haven’t Fall In Their Favor. The Close Winnable Opportunities They’ve Surrendered. That’s Often The Result Of Sputtering Bear’s Offense Failing To Put Together Sustained Drives Or, Worse, A Bounty of Turnovers. The Bears Are Bottom Four In Turnover Differential (-8). Sunday’s Offering Against The Cards A Prime Example, 4 Interceptions. . The Bear’s Quarterback, whether Fields Or Dalton Constantly Compromise A Top ten defense in Yards. Raquon Smith, Eddy Jackson, And Co. Inn Position Of Near Improbable circumstances. Giving The Defense Shallow Rest or Short Goal To Go Situation. Field May Not Return Even If He Recovers from Injury Ahead of The Team Final Slate of Games. Fields Will Return From Injury This Sunday
29. Houston Texans (2-10)
30. Jacksonville Jaguars (2-10)
31. New York Jets (3-9)
32. Detroit Lions (1-10-1)
