Quarterly Power Ranking: 17-26.

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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 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

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 peice. 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.

 

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