When it comes to minnesota you're either lying to squeeze a square into your circle narrative by saying minnesota didn't have convincing wins over the Titans (they beat them by 10) and the Bears (beat them by 18) and the Falcons (beat them by 21) or you're penalizing them for not blowing out every team they play. Either way you're showing your obvious hating. I still can't get over you thinking Green Bay had nothing to play for so they didn't even try. Hahaha too funny. That loss means now they might have to go to Philly in the wildcard. A win against Minnesota would have meant they had a good chance at going to Tampa Bay. You don't think they cared at all about that? Start watching golf or something because you clearly don't understand football.
@biskit52250 im a fan of this site but i must say, Walt has had a weird obsession with the Packers all year long. They’re unimpressive. They’ve been in several dog fights with bad teams and have no real quality wins. As a Lions fan, it has been apparent to me that you guys are the superior team. Even after Sunday night I still respect you guys more than the Lackers. It seems inconsistent to me that Walt knocks some teams for ugly wins and bad records vs good teams while excusing other teams for doing exactly that.
Your Packers bias is crazy. If you swapped them with the Vikings the Packers would be 0-5 against A tier teams.
Also acting like the Packers lost just because they weren't trying is a coping answer. You bet money on them and said there was no motivational edge. Putting the packers above the team that swept them is insanity.
Solid power rankings! Its so obvious now that Packers didn’t care about some meaningless week 17 divisional matchup. Its not like winning couldve helped their standings in the wild card.
Thank god it was clearly warned in the picks yesterday thay GB wouldnt try. Not like someone bet 5 units on them and even predicted theyd win outright.
Hahaha I love coming here to see what a joke it is. "I'm not moving them down because they didn't seem to be trying hard when they lost in Meaningless game" but the issue is it was actually a meaningful game. Green Bay could have moved up to the 5 seed with another win next week. Just stop it man lol
"Vikings have had wins that werent exactly convincing against six teams that dont have winning records"... yet Ravens are ranked ahead with losses to the Raiders (3-12), and Browns (3-12) and 3pt or less wins over Cowboys and Bengals..
Teams like Green Bay and San Francisco you will make excuses for why they lost, bring up injuries and say things like "if this team didn't do this fluky thing GB or SF would have won" but teams like Minnesota and Denver you never talk about their injuries, make excuses for the teams they just beat and say things like "they only won because they did this fluky thing" or the team they played against only lost because the refs did this or " they might have won by 20 points but they played against a bad team that made mistakes". You remind me of a 12 year old making a power rankings for a class project. Hahaha
A WIN IS A WIN NEED TO GET OVER YOUR HATE ON DENVER, THEY BEAT TAMPA AT THEIR PLACE, A BLOCKED FIELD GOAL FROM CHIEFS, YOU HAVE 49ERS RANKED AHEAD OF THEM LOL WHAT A JOKE RANKING. WASHINGTON BARELY SURVIES NEW ORLEANS AND YOU HAVE THEM TOP TEN
It's obvious which teams you like and which ones you don't because the teams you like you always bring up their injuries and make excuses for their losses and narrow victories and the teams you don't like you hold their narrow losses against them and never bring up their injuries. I totally get a power rankings should not just be the same as the standings but wins and losses matter a lot more than you give them credit for. I'll give you credit though because you get me to click on your power rankings every single time to see what the biggest joke of a power rankings said this week.
I’ve been coming to this site for about the last 15 years or so. I do believe that this is the very first time my Lions topped your power rankings. LETS GOOOO!!!
Truthfully I can’t see this team losing any time soon. Not at least until the first seed is clinched, but even then I can’t see Dan Campbell trotting out the backups. Walt, how likely do you think it is that the Lions run the table and go 16-1?
The Texans were dreadful against the Lions, and Detroit gifted them with five turnovers. Everybody is going to be saying that the Texams should have won, even though Detroit heavily outgained them.
The Lions manhandled the Packers in Lambeau without Jameson Williams (suspension) and without Brian Branch for most of the game (ejected). Statement win. Best team in the NFC and it isn’t particularly close.
DET's coaching staff is operating at another level right now. I thought the Hutchinson injury would take the wind out of their sails...nope. I thought the Branch ejection would swing the game in GB's favor...nope. DET doesn't do excuses. Such a tough-minded team.
Even before Collins got injured, the Texans offense had plenty of issues. The Jets managed to expose a lot of them, sacking Stroud a total of 8 times! Yes, the Texans outgained the Jets, but a lot of those yards came in garbage time.
With that being said, Stroud only went 11 for 30, so the offensive line isn’t the only issue.
@christinaolive I think the Bucs are heavily underrated too but it’s not because Walter is upset over the Eagles game. I have been following this site for over a decade now, Walt treats the Eagles like any other team. In fact I have seen him trash the Eagles at times when the mainstream media was drooling over them. I’d like to know why he’s so low on the Bucs but that’s not it.
Yeah, I've been here forever and I've never seen evidence of Eagles bias. It's weird that it keeps getting mentioned.
I'm guessing the rash of injuries on defense and at WR is Walt's main reason for TB's low ranking, and that's fair. Still, having the Bucs at 27 - below CLE, JAX and NO - is nuts. The Bucs have beaten DET, WAS and PHI for chrissakes. They'll likely drop their next two (KC, SF), but their schedule to close out the season is Charmin-soft. (NYG, CAR twice, LV, NO, DAL) Assuming they get Evans and a few DBs healthy for the stretch run, the Bucs are still a competitive team capable of a winning record.
@Mr. Bitter the only explanation I have is that Walter is from the Philadelphia area (if I remember correctly) so anytime he praises the Eagles it gets interpreted as a hometown bias. But like you said, those of us who have been here a while know that Walt has no Eagles bias. As recently as last year he was knocking them, and that was before they started falling apart.
What you’re saying about the Bucs makes sense and I agree. 27 is ridiculously low for a team that is objectively very good at full strength. Yes, they’re nowhere near full strength right now but there’s no indication that they won’t return to full strength before the season is over. Plus they have the benefit of playing in the NFC South. They could easily finish 9-8 and sneak into the playoffs again, and they could be a tough matchup for whoever sees them in the first round.
The Titans heavily outgained the Lions, with it not being a byproduct of garbage time. People are going to be going on about how the Lions managed to score 52 points against the Titans defense, when the stats around the board for Detroit’s offense weren’t impressive in the slightest. I can’t tell if this suggests that the Lions are overrated or if the Titans are highly underrated right now.
@SadisticNobility the Lions were “heavily outgained” because they consistently had short fields due to turnovers and great kick returns. They capitalized on those short fields with touchdowns. It is true that the Lions didn’t play their best game, and yet they still won by 38 points. You take that observation to mean they’re overrated? Seems to me like you’re box score watching rather than tuning into the game. The Lions dominated them in every way, and it could’ve been even worse
"Deshaun Watson just played his best game of the season"
Watson had 47 yards at halftime and didn't lead a TD drive in the game. Again. His QBR was 34.6, somehow his 2nd highest of the season.
That 11-for-11 3rd-quarter completion streak was just fluky momentum-riding from the Myles Garrett/Rodney McCloud blocked FG/TD that made the halftime score 10-10 instead of PHI up 13-3...and possibly halftime locker room threats from Garrett, who is likely tired of the defense carrying the team.
"Watson had both of his starting tackles on the field for the first time all season"
Like it matters. Watson still took 5 sacks and 10 knockdowns. He's taken 5+ sacks in 4 of 6 starts and 31 sacks this season; 10 more than the next highest number. He took 4 sacks p/game last season with a healthy interior O-line and Wills Jr. in the lineup. He hasn't accounted for even 200 yards or more than one TD in any game this season.
Wills Jr. sucks. He has since his rookie season. He had two false start penalties (including 4th-and-goal) and a 42.4 PFF grade vs. PHI. This is typical Wills Jr. stuff when he's not injured. He was PFF's 56th-ranked OT last season. (51.3)
Conklin (57.9 PFF) is a shell of his former self, just as high-mileage Nick Chubb will assuredly be when he returns from a horrific knee injury and has to run behind the likes of Michael Dunn and Zac Zinter (41.6 PFF).
Fun stats:
The CLE offense (13.5 PPG) is last in the NFL by every imaginable metric, including a 13.8% 3rd-down conversion rate. The offense hasn't scored in it's last 29 drives.
Through six games, Watson is last in the NFL in EPA, QBR, sacks taken and pocket success rate. (Behind Will Levis, mind you.) His pocket success rate (33.3%) is ahead of only David Carr, Josh Rosen, Akili Smith, Blaine Gabbert and JaMarcus Russell this millennium.
Since 2006, of 566 passers graded through weeks 1-6, Watson is ranked:
QBR - 558th
Yards p/drop back - 565th
1st Down Rate - 566th
Three seasons into his 5-year contract, Watson has never thrown for 300 yards and has accounted for 2+ TDs twice.
The Watson signing was a catastrophic blunder and his coaches and teammates know it. (Amari Cooper has 100% checked out.) Watson is absolutely broken and I'm not sure if Anthony Munoz and Jon Ogden would make a difference at this point. Until Watson is benched, this is a bottom-5 team.
The Bills had as many penalties as the Jets. Tyler Bass missed a FG and an XP.
BUF has an injury-depleted defense, a hodgepodge of crap like Mack Hollins and Curtis Samuel at WR and a backup RB, yet would have beat the Jets by double digits on the road if not for a Hail Mary.
Risk/reward offseason signings (Mike Williams, Tyron Smith, Haason Reddick, Javon Kinlaw) that the Jets were counting on to patch up weaknesses along the starting lineup have been more detriment than asset.
The Jets are already on their second HC for chrissake. Ulbrich seemed in over his head vs. BUF. So NY replaced one "good DC, shouldn't be a HC" with another one. Wonderful.
The Jets shouldn't be in the top-15 right now, let alone the top-10.
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