Quarterly NFL Power Rankings.
It’s the Quarter Mark Of The NFL Season. We Seen Studided 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 Its 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.
1. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (3-1)
It Took Brady And The Bucs The full Four Quarters To Put Away the Patriots And Place Him Himself In The History Books Having Now Defeated Every Team. The Buccaneers Were Exposed In Some Effect Against The Rams In Week 3. The Secondary Missed assignments on Assignment In The Secondary, Opening Up Too Many Questions About The Quality Of The Playing At That End. The Pass Rush failed To Deliver Consistent Pressure To Matthew Stafford Hip, And It Remains a Concerning Portion Of The Team That rank Near The Bottom third of The League In Defense And Pressure. Another Rush, The Run Game Has Been Basically Non-Existent, miraculously 44-year-old Quarterback Tom Brady Lead The Team In Rushing yard With 14 yards In week Three. So what About This Team Has Me Convinced They Should remain Number 1? The Bucs Do Well What Most Team With A All-Time Great Do Well They Lean On Him. So far Brady Passing Game has Him Near Exclusive air. Second In Passing Yards And Tops Inn Deep Pass Accuracy And Passer Rating. He Dropped back for 55 times Against the ram And connected On 41 Of Those Attempts For 483 Plus Yards. The Bucs were without Antonio Brown and JPP Not To Mention The Bucs Have Two Quality wins Against The Falcons And the Cowboys Added They Signed Richard Sherman to Address The weakness On The Back end.
2 Arizona Cardinals (4-0)
Alone as Undefeated But Not Alone At the Top Just yet The Air Raid offense Took Three years But The Kliff Kingsbury’s quoted “Innovation” Is Finally Initializing And The Results Are Best Exemplified on Kyler Murray’s Spreadsheet. The offensive Player Of The year Candidate is One Of Three Players To Pass One Thousand Plus Yards in the Three games. The Oklahoma Product is top Five In QBR(70.1) And Passer Rating(113.4) and Completion Percentage(76.5%). The Air Raid Has been At The Crux Of Arizona’s Criticism Since Kiin’s Brought The Concept Over From Texas tech. This Season Kingsbury May Finally Have The Weapons For The 10 personnel (one back, zero tight ends, four wide receivers) and empty sets. The Four Primary Receivers Deandre Hopkins, A.J. Green, Christian Kirk, and Rondale Moore Are All Rated Above Average With Kirk Sporting A Ridiculous 90% Rating Amongst Receivers. He, Kirk, And AJ Green Are coming off Of One Of The Best Games Of The Season, Kirk recorded 7 Catches For 104 Yards, At 14.9 Yards Per Play, A.J. Green, 4 Catches 93 Yards, 23 Yards Per Play. In Terms Of Stout defenses, You will find Few teams As A Afflicted With Prmieere Pass rushers Like Cardinal Chandler Is 90 Plus On the edge He already Has 14 total pressures, Three Sacks, five hits, and Three Hurries. He is Not Along with co-star J.J. Watt Also Coming off An electric Game. With Tennessee, Jacksonville, and And tough win Over Minnesota off the Board The Cardinals Are On the cusp of The true Bulk of Their Season.
3. . Los Angles Rams (3-1)
There Is No Faulting The Rams Number 1. If You Have Penciled Them In There you Are counted Amongst The Majority That Has Praise Sean Mcvay’s team Through Three. Seeing As the Rams Dismissed the Former Number 1 Tampa Bay Only A week Ago. Before Sunday’s Lost To The Cardinals They Were Undefeated at 3-0, NOw 3-1. Leading MVP Candidate Quarterback With the Number One Passer rating And Nine Touch Downs To One Interception In 3 games. With A Quartet Of Wide recivers No Team they Have faced So Far Has to manage To In case, Including Cooper Kupp who Account For More Than A Third Of Stafford yards And Targets, There Is More Than Enough reasoning to Be High On The Rams Through One Third. And That’s Without Mentioning The Defense Lead By Aaron Darnold 2 sacks. Third In Offense third in Defense With the 8th, Most Points Allowed. The Rams Face Division foe Arizona And Got Blugeneoed Up Next Is A “Hot” Seattle Team Before A Stretch When they Face The Lions, Texans, Titans, And Giants In 4 Games Then A Face-Off Against rival San Fransisco. The Rams Blasted The Bears in Week one And needed A late Field to dispatch the Colts. Those Two Teams Are A Combined 2-4. Minus the 4-0 Cardinals the Rams Arent Set to Face Another winning Team For Nearly A Month.
4. Los Angeles Chargers (3-1)
Down Goes Oakland. With The AFC West Is Proving To Be One Of The Division To watch Thus Far, Aside From The Raiders The Chargers Are Inline To Motion Toward Taking The KC thrown. The Preseason Pursed The Division As A One team To win But After Defeating the Chief in Week Three The Chargers And Second-year Quarterback Justin Herbert Are Proving ready On The Produced The Most Promise But there Are A Few Concerns. At 3-1, The Chargers Prove to Be Ready for Big Play By Beating Division For And the Expected AFC Champs Chiefs. Justin Herbert is Off To A Strong start typo leads the Charger’s Dynamic Offense. With 1178 Yards passing Which Is fifth In The NFL A 70% completion Percentage and A 97.6 Quarterback Rating. He’s getting Protected, above 2.6 Seconds To Throw The Ball According To Pro football focus, That’s Light year In The Pocket. Comparatively, Tom Brady Get 2.4. Herbert’s Five Sack on The season Is Mostly A cause of Herbert Holding The Ball Too Long. Holding Onto A 2:1 Touchdown To Interception Ratio Herbert Is Now On Pace For More Than Five Thousand yards on The Season. And His two Favorite Targets Mike Williams And Keenan Alllen are Both Playing All-Pro. The Secondary And Pass Ruch Haven’t wreak havoc but they Made Opportune Plays. The Bad: The Chargers Offense is Only an Average of 22 Points Per Game On 67 Points Score, In The Division Denver, Is The Closest to that Mark At 76 The Chargers Defense Has Surrender 60 points, a Seven Point differential, By Comparison, The Broncos have On Allowed 26 Points Thus Far. Rookie Corner Back Asanate Samuel Jr. is Making A Name Of himself Early With two Picks, one-off Patrick Mahomes. Samuel Was out Of Position On the Wide open Reivers But Recovered In Time. To secure an Errant Pass. The Defense Ranks 26th In the League. The Chargers Are One Bad Game From being Of Of Of The AFC Race.
5. Buffalo Bills (3-1)
In the world Of Week One Overaction, the Bills Were Code Red, “Apocalypse Now”. Josh Allen Put Forth A “ Bleak” effort In Primetime Against A Then Surprising Steelers team That Collapse In On His Pocket And His prospects As The One of The Top gunslingers in The Game Were Spiraling Out Of Upstate New York. In-game One, Allen was 30-51, One Touchdown, And 0 Interceptions With a 79.7 Passing rating and a 58.8 Completions Percentage, Not Exactly AFC Runner Up Standards To his Credit. Allen was Sacked Three Times, And His Rapport With Any of The team’s Receiver Not Named Stefon Diggs Hadn’t Formed Exemplified By a Missed deep pass opportunity to a wide-open Emanuel Saunders. It made Allen Look Callow In the Offense he’s Been Running Four Season Now. He Didn’t Quite Recover the Following Week With Only 179 Yards in a Blowout win versus the Dolphins On 51.8% completion Percentage but the Defense manage To Force A “Donut” Of the Dolphins And The Defense Is Ranked 5th given up Only 14 Points Per Game With Nine Sacks And 3 Picks, 50 Hurries and Three Forced fumbles. Allen return to His Peak Power and Exploded For 358 In a week Versus Washington But He Has Not to Look Confident In The Offense. Its Not Look Pretty So Far For The MVP Runner Up who Just Signed a Massive Contract Extension. The Bills May Be Top 5 for Now Because There are More Question Marks for The teams Beneath them.
6. Cleveland Browns (3-1)
The Cleveland Browns have established multiple tight ends, Power rushing attack And It’s Apparent the Team Will Go As Far As its Stable Of running Backs Can carry it. After A Week One Collapse Against Kansas City The Dog Pound Has Recovered To Take Two Straight And Mount Themselves Back Atop AFC Contention. 3-0 Instead Of 2-1 Would Be A More Convincing Win-Loss Record But Baker Mayfield Couldn’t Keep it In the Pocket and The Browns Are Implementing A Play Style That Indicates They Are Prepare To win Despite Him. On The Season Mayfield Has 780 Yards Two (2) Touchdowns And Two(2) Picks, Which Is Marginally Pedestrian League-wide And Outright Porous For A Top 5 team. His Big Time Play rate, Is around Ten Percent Meaning Isn’t Taking gun Slinger Attempts Into the Secondary. His Drop back And Attempts ratio Is Slightly Dipropionate, Not to mention One Of the Bottoms In The League, Meaning Most Of Mayfield’s Issue In The Pocket Aren’t All On Hos Shoulders. His Offensive Has Surrender 27 Pressures And 7 Sacks in three games. It Doesn’t Help the Team Resume That Both Of Their Wins Are Over Bottom Dwelling teams, Texans and Bears, And That Late Lost To KC Is not Looking So Quality Right Now. What The Browns Are Doing well Offense is running the Ball. Nick Chubb is Top Two In Runs for 10 Or More yards And Ranks forth at His Position According To Pro Football Focus, His Back Field Mate Kareem hunt ranks 2nd And He Is Averaging 5.7 yards, Per Carry. Myles Garrett And The Defense Mauled The Bears In Week Three, And The team is Still Top ten In Points Allowed But the Quarterback play Will Prove Crucial As The Season Marches On.
7. Las Vegas Raiders (3-1)
Did You Hear The Broadcasters Remarks At The end Of The Raider’s Victory Over The Miami Dolphins? “3-0 For The First Time In 19 Years” This Raider’s Iteration is Marking Holy Ground Into Mostly Uncharted Territory In Recent Years. It’s The Play Of fringe MVP Candidate Derek Carr. The Raider is Leading One of The Most Competitive Division In football. Carr is Leading the League In Passin yards AT 1204. Week 3 Carr completed 26 of 43 passes for 386 yards and two touchdowns with one interception in Sunday's 31-28 overtime win over the Dolphins. If There Is A Harbingering Mark On Carr’sPlays Thus far Is His completion Percentage When His passing Attempts Eclipses 40, which He’s Finished Twice thus Far At Slightly Above 60% Against The Dolphins and Ravens. The Run Game Is Ranked Bottom but Rb Peyton Barber Racked up 134 yards in Week 3. Overall The team Is 6th in Points Scored And Number 1 in passing. The Defense Can’t be Overlooked In The Teams Success. Eight players Are Rank Above average, And Solomon Thomas Leads The Team With Three Sacks. Can These Raiders Be Trusted? So Far We’ve to Witness The Blockbusters Of The Fall Whenever The Silver Black Enter The venue But The Movie Is 17 Games Long And We Seen This Thematic before.
8. Dallas Cowboys(3-1)
Being In Sole Possession of The Top Spot In the NFC East meant That The Cowboys Presence In the Top 10 Was Inevitable. Dak Is Back And He Is Playing To The Prolific Profile That he Left Us With Before his Ankle Injury. For All The “Verbosity” That Is Jerry World Inspires The Cowboy’s Organization Doesn’t D Get The Credit, they Deserve For The Success They’ve Produced Through The NFL Draft. Cee Dee Lamb, Trevon Diggs, Zach Martin, Dak, Zeke, Lawrence, And Smith, And This year's Rounder Micah Parson Who Is Wide Consider One Of If Not The best Defensive Rookies In The League. After 4 Games Parsons has 12 tackles, 3 sacks, 17 total pressures, two pass deflections, and a tackle for loss. Parsons Is Graded Best As Psss Rusher Where He Can Use His Explosion and Instant To Plug Gaps In The Trenches. . Before The Season Began Parson’s Name was Already favored To be Engraved Across the Defensive rookie Of The year Award And He’s making Good On Those Proclamations. The Rookie Hs have Been Impressive And So Too Has The Defenses Other Star Trevon Diggs Who Is Leading The Team Ints But you’re Here For Dak And Zeke And Offense. The Cowboys Are The Number 1 Rated Offense, 4th In Points Scored, 2nd In Running. Comeback Player Of The Year Front Runner Dak Is Leading That Charge 1008 With 10 Touchdown To Just 2 Int. The Ru is Expspacially prolific Zeke Career resurgence Is apparent, He Has 342 Yards on The Season But it Back Up And Change Of Pace Guy Tony Pollard With 250, But 6.8 Yards Per carrying Who Appear To be The Most threatening coming out Of The Back Field. The Run Game came Alive Against the Panthers And If The Cowboys Hold. Zeke Had His longest Run Of 47 Yards For The Season And finished With 143 Total. Alone As The Only Winning Team In their Divison, The Cowboys Have A lot to Boost Of This Season.
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.
18. . Seattle Seahawks (1-2)
At 2-2 The Seattle Seahawks, Just Pulled through On A Must When victory Over The 49ers on Sunday Over The 49ers. The 28-21 victory Still Left Seattle Looking Up On Its Three Division Rivals, one Of which is Undefeated And The Presumable favorites In the NFL. The Seahawks Are Also looking Down Into The Abyss Where Its Franchise Hasn’t Inhabited in 10 years, Almost completely Out Of The NFC Playoff Picture. “ I Love Adversity”-Russell Wilson. What If The Adversity is the Fundamental Differences In your team’s Philosophy. The Seattle run First Identity Isn’t Living Up To Its Billing. Chris Carson, Seattle Lead Back Is Averaging 4.3 Yards Per Carry for 232 yards On the Season And 3 Touchdowns On 54 Rushes And One Fumble. The Seahawk Might Well Not ran The Ball Against The 49ers, Carson Finished with Just 30 Yards On Sunday. Moreover, The Run fast Ideal hasn’t Translated To Success, Seattle is Rank in The Middle Of The Pack In Rushing and Bottom Twenty In Run blocking. Despite The Devotion Russell Wilson Continue His Brilliant Career. He Secures His 100th Victory. Wilson finished With 149 on 23 Passes And 2 touchdowns. He Ahs 1044 On the Season. The Puts Seattle in At least Striking Distance Of the Rams for Second Place But This Division is No Place for Just good enough.
19. Chicago Bears (2-2)
Justin Fields Fans Must Have Been Inspired Seen To witness The Young QB Secure His First win Sunday. After His Dreadful First Start against Cleveland, The Ohio State Product was Tossed Battered Like Discarded Piñata—Fields Was Sacked Nine Time By A Cleveland Front Seven, Half Of Those Sacks were Tallied By Myles Garret. Just Apprising Feilds Standing Upright And maneuvering His way Through The Back Field Was Cause For Jubilation. That Week Beat Down Was Reverbated And Coach Matt Nagy’s credibility, Which Has Always Been In question, Absorbed More censure. Nagy Has Been Accused Schematically Failure Fields Because, Of His, Nagy’s, Detministric And Mtopic play calling. “It starts With Mee And ends With Me”. Admirable Of Nagy But Mistaken This team Is Poorly Constructed And Underwhelming When It Plays to The Level the Stars. Despite Only Being Named The Starter For Two Games Justin Field Has Been sack An inordinate amount of Time, 11 if we’re talking Bodies. There was a question About How Well Fields’s Skillset Will Translate To The Pro Game but There Is no Question His Deep Ball Placement Is There. Fields Grades Highest when Throwing Deep, In 90 Percentile, Where He’s Connected With Who Appears to be His Favorite Target Darnell Mooney. Deep Balls take Time To Uncorked, Fields’s Processing Time Is Going To be critical If He Is To Succeed as The Bears Starter Going Forward. The Team rAnks 24th in Offense Overall And 28th in Defense.
20. Minnesota Vikings (1-3)
The Viking Are A top ten Team If They Could finish Games And Extend Drives. Kirk Cousins is Eighth Best Passer As graded By Pro Football Focus. The Vikings Starter Is putting Up MVP Numbers 1121 yards Per Game, 9 touchdowns, And 1 interception A QB rating Of 105.6, And an Average of 7 Per Attempt. Cousins Has Been Dealing And The Vikings Are Rank Tenth In Passing offense. The Offense Line As Always Has been Below Average But Cousins Has Only Been Sacked 7 times But His Completion Percentage Drops To Around 43% When under Pressure Compare To 80% When He Is Kept Clean. Dalvin Cook Has Been Kept In Check Behind An offense Line Not eQuipped Manage The Viking’s Zone Blocking scheme. The Offense Has Been Mostly the Product Of Cousins And second-year Wide receiver Justin Jefferson Who Has 26 Reception For 338 yards, 13 yards per catch, And 3 touchdowns. The Vikings Really struggle To move The ball on the third Down, 39% percent Conversion rate. Struggling To extend Drive explain the Close losses The team suffered this Season. Losing By A field Goal To the Bengals, One point to the Cardinals, And one Touchdown To Cleveland. The Vikes Are Also Devoid Of “impactful” Production aT Tight End. The Defense is Tied for fourth In Sacks. In their Only Win In Week 3 Versus Seattle, The Vikings were 9 For 14 On third down. The offense Will Have To sustain drives If the Vikes hoped To Preserve Their Season.
21. New England Patriots (1-3)
Who? Mac Jones. The Patriots Appear To be Ahead Of The Curb On The League Once Again, No Matter If when They Are Playing It from Behind In The Win column. Mac Jones was The Least “Glamorous” Of All The First Round Quarterbacks. The Alabama Product exhibited more poise and Pro ready Ability in his Second Season As A Starter for The Crimson Tide—At least Alongside Trevor Lawrence. His final season in Tuscaloosa was an excellent 2020 campaign. Jones completed 77% of 402 pass attempts and posted an 11.1 YPA and 96 total QBR, all were the best Of this year's class added 41 TDs, with four INTs. Forward To the NFL, The 15th Overall Pick outlasted Vetera And incumbent Starter Cam Newton For The Sole Rights To New England’s Offense. Jones’s 1012 yards is Best amongst Rookies and His 4 Td Is Tied for second. In Years Past The Pats Have Struggled To Put Together A Comprehensive Stable Of receivers. 2021 is Not The Case. Belichick Utilized His Mountain of Cap Space And Put Together The Trio Of Kendrick Bourne Nelson Agolhor, And Jacobi Meyers. The three Have a synergy Out wide. The target Is Generously Shared Amongst Three With Mayers Being The Clear Head Horseman With 246 yards and 27 Total Receptions and 1 Touch down. Bourne And Agholor Not far Behind 181,165 in yardage 14 and 13 Receptions respectively, And a Touchdown A piece. The Offense Is Only Rank 22nd And the Defense 24th. The Patriots aren’t A “Win-Now” Team. But Few Amongst The Bottom Shelf of The League Have This Much Leg up on the Curve Of Development.
22. Washington Football Team (2-2)
As A fan of Both math And Football, I’m Stirred When Happen Upon SoeNew Data And Metrics That Are too esoteric To Be Related To the Brute Force Of Football But Too evident when Played Out In Games for the Eyes of Us Comments To witness. Math And Football, The Odd Couple That intersects and berths New Models. If there is One “Striking” Datum unearthed To Me in recent Months Would Have To Be This Deduction on The Washington football teams Projected Vaunted Defense that Isn’t So According To The Football Almanac, Teams Which Experience massive year-to-year improvement, which The Washington Football Team had The year Prior, tend to decline the following season. You Read That correctly, the past seven teams To Rise Up The DVOA Similar to Washington, only two remained in the top 10 the next year — Most finished 26th or worse. “The Washington Foot Ball team Stand At 18th So Far The Front Seven Has generated Six sacks. The team is Still Bolstering A Front With Some 7 Plus Above Average Pressure players, including Jonathan Allen and Montz Sweat But Not a Former Defensive rookie Of year Chase young Who Has regressed in his Development And Hasn’t Shown The “motor” To Move Into The Elite Echelon. Taylor Heinicke Has been A gutsy Revelation. At Qb And Thre Is No reason For The Team To Return To Ryan Fitzpatrick even if The Vet returns this season.
23. Philadelphia Eagles (1-2)
Jalen Hurts Ahs Been Impressive. The Second year Quarterback Used his 3 touchdowns of 775 Com[letion Percentage To down The Falcons Week 1 And He’s Amassed 1,167 Yards On The Season. Hurts completed 32 of 48 passes for 387 yards and two touchdowns to go with eight carries for 47 yards in Sunday's 42-30 loss to the Chiefs Sunday Gone. Third, in A Row For An Eagles team In Project-future Mode, Sifting Through The Roster for Long Term Cornerstones. Hurts has racked up 8 Sacks on the Season Including Three Against KC. His Yards Per Attempts Is Settling In At Around 8 Per Game and His refined Report With His former College Devonta Smith has Shown A lot Of Promise. Smith finished Sunday’s Affair with seven catches for 122 yards.
24. Miami Dolphins (1-2)
The Tua Tumble Is Not only An Alluring Alliteration Its The Present Prediccument And Gloriying Manifesting Of An thought Experiment. The Miami Dolphins Were Suppose To Be The Premiere Challengers To The Bills This Season Inn te Afc East But The Teams. The offense Has faltered. Starting Qb Tua, Just Tua For The sake Of Time, Left Week Two With A Rib Injury And Won’t Return Until Week 6. His Presence Wasnt The Impactful Invitation MostAHd expected in his Second Year, Only 1 Touchdown And 1 Interception For 215 yards but he was Averaging Around 7.5 Per Attempt; He Hasn’t Been Good. Jacoby Brisset, the Back up, continues To Step On His Feet At times the Dolphins Averaged 3 yards per play Sunday And The offense Is Rank 29th. The Defense Is Mercifully Fourth In the League That’s Thanks To A Strong Secondary.
25. Pittsburgh Steelers (1-2)
The Steelers Find Themselves at the Very Crossroads The Packers Alienated Aaron Rodgers To Circumvent. The Two legendary Franchise Met Sunday And The Divergence was palpable. After Sundays Loss To The Pack, The Steelers Drop to 1-3 On The Season 2-6 In Their Last Eight Matchups The Promising Week victory Over The bills Is Now in the Rearview. The Offense Scheme Is Either Unimagitive Or Ineffecint And Najjee Harris And The Run Game Haven’t Improve the Ball Control Play. Rothlisberger has Already Eclisped 1033 yards On the Season He Finished Sundays Outing With a 65 Percent Completion Percentage, 4 Touchdowns, 4 Interceptions.
26. . Indianapolis Colts (1-3)
For One Reason Or Another, The Colts Were The Favorited Of “some” To Win what Is The Worst Division In Football and Threatened whoever Claims The Unhitch title in The AFC And Who Could Blame Them? This is, For The Most Part, The Exact Colts Team That Made The Playoffs An year Ago With Now Retired Phillip Rivers Under center, Carson Wentz Is A Younger, Mobile, And More Adept Replacement. Assuredly, There Would Be No Reason to Doubting At least A Repeat And At Best An Improvement. So Far Marriage Of Coach And Gun Slinger Hasn’t Bared Fruit. Wentz hasn’t yet Bridge the 1,000-yard passing Barrier Through four games, for Perspective, rookie Mac Jones Has Over 1000, so To does Second Year Man Jalen Hurt. Wentz Has fewer yards than Jets Rookie QB And Interception Enthusiast Zach Wilson, he has completed 63.8% of his attempts he has thrown only one interception on the season And He’s Attempting One Of The Fewest Passes Per Game. Wentz And offensive Play Caller, Frank Reich Don’t Appear to be on The Same Page as Yet. There Are A “Few” reports Of Wentz Going Off Script In Favor Of Improvisation As Opposed To Following “directives” And even When It Behooves the Offense To Do So, The Coach often Favor Executive To Ten Yard Runs. Reich And Wentz Are Respected Vets In the League, An issue Such As This Can “ironed” Out So To Say, And The 27th Ranked Offense Could Improve; Its “Lob city” With Carson Wentz tossing Up Hail Mary Every Other Play. The Colts Secure Their First Win Saturday Against The Dolphins And They Have Had One Of The Tougher Schedule Thus Far. Some weaker AFC South Offensive Fronted By The Colts Top ten Defense.
27. Houston Texans (1-2)
Somehow The Texans Aren’t The Worse Team In Football, It’s At Least A tie right. In An Uninspiring Sense, They At times Dare To Justify Playing In The NFL Some. It’s Not Easy To find a Reason To Write about The Texans These Days, Near A temptation To completely Overlook Them Entirely, Particularly After A.40 Point Blowout At the Hands of The Bills But Tradition And Formality demand Such. Quarterback In the interim David Mills Put In Another Dour Offering At at the office. Mills, A Third Round Rookie, entered Sunday as the lowest-graded quarterback in the NFL, Below “gadget” Guys Like Taysom Hill, and He More than Justified that rating against Buffalo. 11-of-21 passes for 87 yards and four interceptions, taking three sacks. Mills As 347 Yards in Three Games Played, Which is Less than Tyrod Taylor, Whom Mills Replaced As The Starter In the Second Game of The Season. It would Be OverISimplifying To boils This Down To The Turmoil That Is the Texans But Brandin Cooks 12th Highest Graded According To ProFootball Focus And 6th Highest Receiver In yardage. The Offensive Line Is Graded In the Range Of Average To Above Average Across The Line But So Too Are The Bills. The Texans Are rank Last in Offense And For Good Reason, They Are 25th In defense for what Its Worth
28. New York Jets (1-3)
“There Is Zero Panic”. The Jets Are Bad And for Once It Good Things. They Haven’t challenged Any Of The Teams They Have Competed Agsints Beside Carolina, of course, This would Have been true Before Their First Win Sunday Versus The titans, And Though I Must Admit Their 14 Points Against What Is Now The Leagues Number 1 defense Looked Promising for A Moment Before Qb Zach Wilson Threw Another Interception. Speaking of, The Rookie Starter Zach Wilson Has At Least Approach the Turn Of Improvement for What anybody Could Have Suppose Would Be A “Meaningless” First Season For Better Or Worse. He’s tied For first In Interception With eight juxtapose To And Zombie-ish 2 Touchdown. Wilson Is tops In The League In Turnover-worthy-plays Which Is A Unique Stat That When Over Simplified Judges How Poorly A Player Or Quarterback is taking Care Of The Ball Wilson’s Marginal Array Of Scheme and Concept Understanding Only further Limits His ability. The Jets’ Worrisome Offense Doesn’t Boil Down to Just Wilson, The offensive line is a Work I Progress, The Connection With The Wide receivers Hasn’t formed Yet, And The running game is inept. The Upside The Pass rush Is Improved.
29 . New York Giants
Wait A Minute Is Daniel Jones Decent, Even respectable? The NFC Player of The Week Came Alive Sunday Secured The Giants The First Win of The Season, Jones’s 401 Passing Yards Removed the Residue Of His Mediocre Start To The Season And Restored The Luster Of His Prospective QB Career. Coming Into Sunday “Danny Dimes Was Averaging Just Over 250 Yards Per Contest with Only Two Touchdown For A Team That Has Been Threatening The Saints For The Title Of Under-Performing Offenses. Aginst The Saints On Sundays Jones completed 28 of 40 passes for 402 yards, two touchdowns and an interception in Sunday's 27-21 overtime win. He added 27 yards on four rushing attempts and ran in a two-point conversion. Offseason highlight Signing Kenny Golladay led the team in receiving, six receptions for 116 yards, And Former Bengal John Ross caught a 52 Yard Touchdown Help the Giants Score 11 Unanswered And Secure The Win. The First Win Is Invaluable. The Giants Have One Of The Toughest Stretches That Starts Next Game Against the Division Leading Cowboys.
30. Detroit Lions (0-4)
Jared Goff has Been Playing Some Decent Ball For A Lions team Without A Win Or And Identity. 1100 yards 7 touch down 2 interceptions. His Adjusted Completion Percentage Is 76 %. The Offense Is Ranked 23 And The Defense Is Last In Nearly all Signicant Statistical categories.
31. Atlanta Falcons (1-3)
This Past Saturday College Football’s Then Number 3 Ranked Team The Oregon Ducks Took A Blow To The Their Playoff Resume With A Loss To Rival Stanford Cardinals. The Ducks Playoff Credibility was Shooked And The Standings Are In Limbo. The Ducks Are Still One Of the Teams Favored To make The Playoffs. The Past half Decade Or So has left The Once juggernaut Program Glorified for Its renown Under Former Coach chip Kelly, which Is So 2015. One Of The Reasons for The Ducks Resurgence Is Kayvon Thibodeaux. Thibodeaux is the Ducks’ star pass rusher and arguably the best NFL draft prospect in the country And As Of Sunday Thibodeaux Should Stand as The Falcon Cause of This Season. The falcons Have One Win On The Season which At this point is One Win Too Many. When Coedarelle Patterson, who Is Have An All-Around Exceptional Season As A Offensive Weapon--Second On the Team In Both Rushing yards(119 Yards0 And receiving yards(235 Yards) And 1st in Touchdown On Both Ends--Is The Most Heralded Facet Of your Team There is Some “rethinking” that Needs To be. The Time To Dismantle This Team And Begin Construction from The Inside Out. Tarde Everyone. Matt Ryan has 990 Yards 8 Touchdown And 3 But He is Not Going To Revive the Kyle Shanahan MVP Prowess Of 5 Years Ago. Wide Receiver Calvin Ridley has Tied forth 8th In The League in Receptions with 27 but is Negligible for The 25th Ranked Offense. Rookie 1st Round TE Kyle Pitts’s targets Have Increased Over The first 4 Weeks of The Season. The Falcons Are working Him Into The Offense And Splitting His Time As A Receiver Out Wide 40% of Hs Snaps and In The Slot 50% Of His Offensive Snaps. The Falcons Aren’t The Worse Team In football Outright But They Have the Weakest Prospects. On The Season The Falcon have A 30 Point Point Differential And The 28th Ranked Defense is Allowing The Most Points In The NFL.
32. Jacksonville Jaguars (0-3)
“We Want Bama”. Coach Urban Meyer Is learning The rope Of The Pros And it’s Been One Criticized Mess After Another. . The Jaguars Are Turning The corner Though, At least It seems. Sure They Haven’t Won A Game So far But there Is Enough Promise Shown By Trevor Lawrence To warrant Some optimism For Fans Of The Franchise. They Push the Bengals To The End of regulation and Trevor Lawrence Completed One Of The Palys Of The Year on A deep hook Up With LaViskas Shenault rolling Out To His Right, That made Its way Into The top Plays of the Week; Thats Something. Lawrence averaged 8 Yard Per attempt against Cincy And Despite His Interception And The Learning Curve Through his first True Losing Season, Lawrence hasn’t Lost His GunSlinger Approach To The Game Despite Struggles. Through Weeks 1-3, Lawrence had 5 touchdowns And 7 interceptions. Lawrence Finished His Battle with Joe Burrow, 17 of 24 passes for 204 yards with no touchdowns No interceptions. 204 Yards bring His Total to 873 yards but 5 TD Leads All rookies.
