logggur: The Texans are not getting much love in the Power Rankings this year.


Well, right now the Texans are just holding on for dear life because of injuries, so I don't think anyone is that upset they are not getting more attention.
I did like how the Cardinals can beat the 49ers and still go down in rank.

Doesn't go green until 8?! Fark off, modmins.

That's more like it for the Saints.

Insert LB/DE Terrell Suggs (three sacks against Indy) into the MVP conversation.

You just told me why he shouldn't.

After facing Jacksonville on Thursday, the Falcons get 10 days to prepare for a huge game vs. the Saints. (Sando)

Yes, Monday Night... Saints at home... in prime time... before a national audience. You know how this ends, dirty birds.

The Jaguars have placed 27 players on injured reserve this year -- more than half a roster. (Kuharsky)

Good God. It's just like my fantasy team.

CornDog in 2012: [newspaper.li image 300x411]

"Let's see, if Tebow shiats the bed twice and oakland continues their slide....we may have a chance

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Thats right, the chargers are gonna pull off another miracle run!!! WOOT

but this post wouldn't be complete without this gem:

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Does a jersey really cost $300?

That's farking stupid.

The Saints are ranked too low, Ravens and Patriots too damn high.

So beating the Colts is more impressive than beating the Texans.

Good to know.

CornDog in 2012: I think the high end ones may cost that much, not sure. Mine only cost 50 bucks and a whole lot of shame because it has merriman's name on it

I have a Lake Dawson jersey. Lake farking Dawson, I didn't buy it, but that doesn't make it right.

logggur: The Texans are not getting much love in the Power Rankings this year.

I'm O.K. with that. I'm so happy my team finally broke a major hurdle but I still think there's things that need to be addressed. Quite frankly, the fans around here are starting to get irritating already. Yesterday on the local 5 p.m. ESPN radio show, they were talking about making Yates the starter, getting rid of Schaub and making Wade the head coach. I was facepalming hard and thanking whatever deity out there that McNair doesn't listen to the fans. And the bandwagon fans are out in force now. The last 15 years most of them were Dallas fans.

Bunnyhat:

Well, right now the Texans are just holding on for dear life because of injuries

Also this. Maybe Yates will get better with more games under his belt but I really don't see us going much further than the first game.

/ really hope I'm wrong

Three weeks to go, and we have four teams in, ten teams out, and eighteen fighting for the last eight spots in the five week long (remember the one bye week before the last two teams play in Super Bowl Forty-Six), twelve-team, eleven-game event we call THE MOTHERFARKING PLAYOFFS.

New to The Great Tiebreaker Spreadsheet this week is a draft order projection. Note that this is based on ESS, the Eventual Strength of Schedule, which is the current number of wins by the 16 teams on a team's schedule. Therefore even though Minnesota has had a harder schedule to date, their last three games are so much easier (ATL/CHI/WAS) than St. Louis's (SF/PIT/CIN), that they have the inside track to pass the Rams and take the #2 pick.

As always, all charts POP to full-size when clicked.

We start with the AFC game-by-game. Of note: The North swept the East 4-0. Cincinnati is locked into third, behind both Baltimore (division record) and Pittsburgh (sweep), so they can be no better than a 6 seed. The West would be a complete clusterfark if Denver weren't unbeatable right now. Well, it is anyway: KC can still win the division at 8-8.


The main attraction, the Big Chart. Indianapolis has clinched 16th place in the AFC (cheers and applause). Slight correction here: Tennessee should be orange; they can't win their division. Also, a broad look shows that we may not have anyone entitled to whine about missing the playoffs. Right now, there are 11 teams at 8-5 or better and all are in, plus one of the six 7-6 teams. At far right, the projected draft order, remembering that the primary tiebreaker is (eventual) SOS, followed by a coin flip if teams are from opposite conferences. Giants pick 21st because they make the playoffs.


And lastly the NFC game-by-game. Detroit wins a tiebreaker with Chicago at 9-7 unless the Bears' loss is this week. The East is dangerously close to going 0-8 in strength games. Neither Atlanta nor Detroit can clinch this week, both Chicago could beat either at 9-7.

rickythepenguin: we sacked the cat 5 times as i recall. yeah, we lost Kolb but on the first series. with our backup QB, we punked that ass....and we fall?

That's the problem. As a Niners fan, I can tell you that racking up "only" 5 sacks on that immobile lump of shiat we laughingly call a quarterback--behind an O-line that often resembles turnstiles more than blockers--is a subpar performance compared to a lot of other teams. Hell, even the lowly Rams sacked Smith 4 times a week ago (in a 26-0 SF victory), which combined with your boys' 5, is equal to the 9 sacks the Ravens racked up against us in a single game the previous week.

Aarontology: So beating the Colts is more impressive than beating the Texans.

Good to know.

Huh?

ShadowLAnCeR: The 9ers game pissed me off this week.

Stupid cardinals.

All I have to say is at least we get a good monday night football game. For once.

\Hopes we can beat the steelers
\\thinks we wont
\\\HOPE!

You will beat the Steelers. You must beat the Steelers.

Scrotastic Method: Christ I wish PIT had played anyone but the damn Browns. They were aching to give that game away, but then Colt McCoy remembered he's horrible. Dammit. But at least we have another reason for Ben Rapelisberger to keep talking about how tough he is! Hooray! Steelers suck.

A victory over the Chargers this weekend and I'd be shocked if we (Ravens) don't get a home game, or two. I try not to get too excited but a win this weekend makes me think we've paved the road to at least the AFC Championship game.

If we can win out, we get homefield throughout the playoffs. Now we just have to win out...

/A little worried about San Diego this weekend.
//More worried about Cincinnati week 17.

AdmirableSnackbar: This is technically correct, the best kind of correct.

That just means he achieved a 66.7 in less time than Palmer did, ANOTHER selling point for how bad Ponder was, lol.

If the Niners lose to the Steelers this week they positively suck. Ben is jacked up, Pouncey may not play, Harrison is suspended, Woodley still has hamstring issues... they are meat on the table for the Niners. If Pittsburgh pulls this one out I don't want to hear a peep from the Niners peanut gallery about how good they are this year.