SBR early birds.... NFL power rankings

ryanspeer2001 · 12-16-08, 04:11 AM

Are you looking for our Top 5 teams? If that's the case.

1. Pittsburgh 11-3

Taking all things into consideration this team is consistently delivering wins against a strong schedule. Big Ben is making better decisions and taking control of this offense. With 2 of their loses coming in a defensive struggle in Philly and a poor 2nd-Half against the Giants it shows they still need to provide more points for this incredible defense to put itself farther up on other elite teams.

2. New England 9-5

Ridiculous pick here but I'm not here to give you cookie cutter rankings. Team has really played well in their last 4 games (sans Seahawks) and if they can take down the AFC East crown might very well roll their way to the AFC Championship or possibly the Superbowl. Cassel is doing a superb job taking advantage of any offense tools he has and now that the make-shift running game is coming together with some consistency they will be putting up 24+ points a game against just about any team in football.

3. Indianapolis Colts 10-4

This team will not find itself out of any game the rest of the season including playoffs. The begining of the season was a disgrace but to no surprise Manning has adapted his game and taken this at one point stuttering offense and put together a winning unit. Everyone will talk about how critical Bob Sanders has been to this defense when he plays and the stats show that but those stats are history and with or without Sanders this defense bend and not break in crunchtime.

4. NY Giants 11-3

A part of me wanted to leave this team out of the Top 5 after two crushing losses to divison foes that kept both of those teams (Cowboys/Eagles) right in the thick of playoff contention. Which will make things very scary for this Giants club come the 2nd round of the playoff against either team. I believe this team is not being affected by the off-field antics of Burress but his lose on the field has been far more important. He really made an impact on spreading the field for the Running Backs. Brandon Jacobs being injured may have been a death blow to this team's Superbowl repeat hopes. Even with him back in the lineup soon teams have seen the lack of a running game without him and loosen up the box when hes not in.

5. Atlanta Falcons 9-5

It disturbs me to say this may be the most balanced team in football going into the playoffs (assuming they make it). Matt Ryan has shown very little to make me believe hes not ready for a deep playoff run and speaking of running is there any NFC defense that is going to hold back Michael Turner? And if so will they be watching Roddy White burn them over the middle all day? Defensivly this unit is not paticularly elite at any level but each line of defenders plays every down hard and will shut down most NFC running backs. Abraham has given this defense a leader and a playmaker.

Honorable Mentions

Carolina, Minnesota, Ravens.

Chi_archie · 12-16-08, 04:14 AM

Wow Ry-guy... impressive post.... took alot of time there...

NO carolina eh??? no Balty??? after almost beating the # 1 team....

glad there was no Dallas though...

ryan is that you in the avatar?

ryanspeer2001 · 12-16-08, 04:19 AM

Thank you I appreciate the kind words. At first when doing it Carolina shot to my mind but Delhomme will be the death of this team. Baltimore is great and all but Flacco =/= Ryan and their run game is suspect at best.

Yes thats me in my photo I was 18. And yes I'm Albino.

Chi_archie · 12-16-08, 04:25 AM

Originally posted by ryanspeer2001

Thank you I appreciate the kind words. At first when doing it Carolina shot to my mind but Delhomme will be the death of this team. Baltimore is great and all but Flacco =/= Ryan and their run game is suspect at best.

Yes thats me in my photo I was 18. And yes I'm Albino.

Yes Delhomme, play mistake-free would def help Carolina... and that doesn't seem to be too often the case.... Baltimore to me, is almost a mirror image of pittsburgh... the Stillers run game this year has been prob the worst in franchise history dating back to... I don't know 1980-somthing.... but yeah Big Ben over Flacco any day.

lol wow an albino, I wasn't going to say anything, except you must have been on your HS or small college's O-line... but now that you mention it...damn......your eyebrows ARE white...

I wouldn't have wanted to line up against you in the trenches bro...you big scary albino

ryanspeer2001 · 12-16-08, 04:33 AM

Haha yea I used to wrestle actually but I loved football. I would have played (6'0" 260lbs) but we were in the same athletics division as Chester High and Glen Mills (you said your from PA so I hope you know). Those animals were huge and I would not have stood a chance going up against them lol.

Chi_archie · 12-16-08, 04:41 AM

Originally posted by ryanspeer2001

Haha yea I used to wrestle actually but I loved football. I would have played (6'0" 260lbs) but we were in the same athletics division as Chester High and Glen Mills (you said your from PA so I hope you know). Those animals were huge and I would not have stood a chance going up against them lol.

yeah I know about glen mills...

I worked at the juvenile residential home that was 2nd to glen mills in size in PA (george Jr republic) football/track was G.M's thing... but basketball was our thing... in the 4 years I worked there we had like 11 kids go to D-1 colleges.... We beat Lebron James his junior year right after he was on the cover of SI...

I was there that day...

Chi_archie · 04-25-10, 06:37 PM

we are looking for solid solid teams.... but really..... YOU know nothing now