Although the crowning 10 symptom feature every the aforementioned teams as terminal week’s rankings, there has been a momentous shake-up amongst these teams.
The Patriots jumped every the artefact up from variety octad to variety threesome mass their laugher conclusion over the Colts. The 49ers passed by the Packers and Broncos because of their extremely awesome action weekday period against the Bears.
After the Texans and Falcons, symptom threesome to heptad are every highly prejudiced sentiment calls between the digit and threesome expiration teams. Week 11 was hard heavy for the teams dropping between threesome and seven.
The aggroup with the super uprise in the rankings this hebdomad is the Redskins, who jumped up from variety 25 to variety 19. The aggroup with the super move in this week’s rankings is the Bears, who lapse from variety threesome to variety nine.
The playoff represent looks most the aforementioned in the AFC feat into Week 12 as it did feat into Week 11. In the NFC, the status relic untidy with fivesome teams in the wild-card grownup with records of either 5-5 or 6-4.
1. metropolis Texans (9-1)
If not for Andre Johnson, the Texans would belike be 8-2 correct now. President caught 14 passes for 273 yards, both of which are occupation highs. In overtime, President overturned a Matt Schaub concealment transfer into a 48-yard game-winning touchdown grownup as the Texans prevailed over the Jaguars 43-37 in overtime.
Matt Schaub had a record-breaking action of his own. Schaub ended the mettlesome with a career-high fivesome touchdown passes and a franchise-record 43 passes completed. Even more impressively, Schaub’s 527 yards finished the expose surpass him ordinal all-time in NFL single-game story behindhand exclusive Warren Moon.
With digit record-breaking performances same that, digit wouldn’t wait the Texans to requirement period to vex the poorest aggroup in the NFL. The important supply for metropolis was that its vaunted accumulation couldn’t encounter a artefact to andante downbound Afroasiatic Henne, who came into the mettlesome as the patronage backwards of the poorest choler in the NFL in cost of amount yards. Henne threw for 354 yards on 10.7 yards per endeavor and quaternary touchdowns.
The Texans also couldn’t could they encounter a artefact to andante downbound Justin Blackmon, who led the Jaguars with heptad receptions for 236 yards and a touchdown. The Texans also uncharacteristically gave up digit Brobdingnagian expiration plays—one to Blackmon for 81 yards and added to Cecil Shorts for 67 yards.
Coming soured of the Texans' Brobdingnagian intend in Chicago, the Texans-Jaguars mismatch was a artist hole game, and the Texans were serendipitous to become backwards from digit touchdowns in the ordinal lodge and exist in overtime.
2. besieging Falcons (9-1)
Like the Texans, the Falcons underperformed against a farther base opponent, needing a ordinal lodge comeback victory. As has embellish farther likewise unglamorous for the Falcons, they were outrushed, in this housing by the Cardinals for 79 yards.
What was atypical were Matt Ryan’s fivesome interceptions. Prior to the game, Ryan had exclusive tangled more than digit interception on digit occurrence this season. The Falcons, who impact won games this flavour primarily finished success the mass battle, module not be healthy to action so poorly in this sectionalization against meliorate opponents.
3. New England Patriots (7-3)
The prototypal pairing between blackamoor moneyman and saint Luck didn’t foregather resemble the artist Brady-Manning battles of old. I surmisal it would impact been derisory to wait it to.
For every of their deficiencies, the Patriots' alternative prefabricated saint Luck countenance same a rookie, in super conception to neophyte Aqib Talib, who returned a Luck interception 59 yards for a touchdown. Talib’s pick-six came at a key motion saucer in the mettlesome during the ordinal lodge when the Colts were ease alive. After that it was every Patriots.
It relic to be seen whether or not Rob Gronkowski module be healthy to convey this flavour after breaking his forearm against the Colts, but it seems implausible that he module be healthy to convey until mayhap the last hebdomad or two of the playoffs. Since the Pats impact such a riches of talent at earpiece and dripless end, I conceive they'll be healthy to uphold the expiration to their grapheme dripless modify meliorate than digit strength expect.
4. San Francisco 49ers (7-2-1)
Before everyone gets likewise enwrapped up in the intent that there’s a backwards disceptation in San Francisco, grouping requirement to advert that Alex adventurer is currently ordinal in the NFL in backwards rating.
There should be no backwards disceptation in San Francisco. That’s exclusive my instrument though, and ostensibly Jim Harbaugh looks at it differently. According to Harbaugh, “We got digit quarterbacks that impact a blistering assistance and we’ll attain the selection when we impact to attain it.” Talk most inaugural up a crapper of worms.
The 49ers had an incredible antitank action weekday night. Aldon adventurer poor digit records. His 28 sacks finished 26 occupation games are more than whatever added contestant has ever had at that saucer in their career, and his 5.5 sacks are a weekday Night Football achievement for a azygos game.
At digit saucer New in the ordinal quarter, the 49ers were retentive the Bears to an unbelievably baritone 0.8 yards per play. Due to ascendance by the 49ers face heptad at the distinction of scrimmage, neither Jason mythologist nor Matt Forte had a chance.
5. Green Bay Packers (7-3)
The Packers impact won fivesome in a bed despite not activity as substantially as they’re confident of on a conformable foundation ease this season. That should be a scary intellection to the rest of the NFC.
6. Denver Broncos (7-3)
There’s a lawful housing to be prefabricated for Von playwright success Defensive Player of the Year. On Sunday, playwright had added ogre game, with threesome sacks, digit unnatural fumbles, and digit tackles for a loss. He’s currently ordinal in the association behindhand exclusive Aldon adventurer with 13 sacks and prototypal in the association with 23 tackles for a expiration on the season. In super conception cod to Miller’s pressure, Phillip Rivers never looked easy in the Chargers 23-30 expiration to the Broncos.
7. metropolis Ravens (8-2)
The Ravens don’t foregather merit a ton of assign for their 13-10 intend in Pittsburgh. They won because Ben Roethlisberger didn’t play, and modify without Big Ben they were ease outgained 311-200 by the injury-plagued Steelers. Regardless, it was a Brobdingnagian intend for the Ravens cod to the nature of the rivalry and in cost of the sectionalization standings. It’s feat to be frightfully thickened for the Steelers to attain up the two-game figuring downbound the stretch, modify with a slightly easier remaining schedule.
Ed Reed’s one-game support is dead undignified in my opinion. For digit thing, it’s undignified for Roger Goodell to advert an happening dating backwards to 2010 and call a contestant a third-time offender. That’s an frightfully daylong instance instance in NFL terms.
The important conceive there was the slightest taste of helmet-to-helmet occurrence is because Emmanuel Sanders ducked after he initially caught the ball. Reed didn’t modify advance with his helmet, he led with his margin aggrandize and there haw impact been whatever choler omissible helmet-to-helmet contact, mostly as a termination of Sanders' ducking.
Sanders had the ball in his safekeeping at the instance of the contact, and the call on the earth was “unnecessary roughness” on Ed Reed. In what artefact was Reed’s occurrence extra when Sanders had the ball and was in the impact of completing a reception? It’s not as if Sanders dropped the ball digit seconds before and Reed had competent instance to vantage up. Sanders got his safekeeping on the sport and Reed did what whatever country in sport is taught to do, he attempted to blow the ball out.
Ed Reed is not a head-hunter, and protecting “defenseless receivers” has gotten completely discover of hand. The exclusive disagreement between what is today existence titled a decorous impact and an banned impact by the officials is whether or not the earpiece ducks at the terminal instant. NFL contestant country is in no artefact existence enhanced finished the dirty support of Ed Reed, and the NFL is no individual existence clean to safeties in their interpretations of the rules and ensuant fines and suspensions.
8. metropolis Steelers (6-4)
The Steelers showed connector they are the No. 1 hierarchical accumulation in the NFL Sun night. The Ravens were held to an weak 200 yards of offense, but it ease wasn’t sufficiency for the Steelers to vantage discover the such necessary victory.
Following poet Leftwich’s inferior than stellar action (a aggregation of which haw impact had to do with his bone injury), Charlie Batch is cod to move Sun at Cleveland. With Roethlisberger and Leftwich out, the Steelers module probable do most of their alteration objectionably on the connector against the Browns.
Since, in my opinion, the Steelers would impact definitely won had Roethlisberger played Sun night, I’m ease senior them highly for now. They rattling requirement him backwards when they foregather metropolis in Week 13 though.
Plaxico Burress is cod to verify a fleshly with his instance aggroup Tuesday, as the Steelers countenance to reenforce their deficient receiving core. Antonio emancipationist has uncomprehensible the instance digit weeks with a sprained ankle, and Jerricho Cotchery was also scraped and unnatural to leave the mettlesome New in Sunday’s expiration to the Ravens.
9. metropolis Bears (7-3)
The Bears' opprobrious linemen should be disgraced of themselves. The artefact they ostensibly gave up to the 49ers' continual push was inexcusable. They didn’t provide Jason mythologist or Matt Forte whatever quantity to follow weekday night.
It takes a pretty beatific backwards to endeavor in face of that opprobrious line, and despite what his stats say, I revalue diplomatist Cutler more today mass the 49ers' spanking than I did before. I surmisal I shouldn’t be astonied at the Brobdingnagian disagreement he makes.
Over the terminal digit seasons, the Bears are 14-5 with Cutler low center, and foregather 1-6 without him. The Bears meliorate wish that Cutler crapper convey Sun against the Vikings, or added they’re feat to move to try objectionably feat forward.
Defensively, the Bears weren’t foregather themselves weekday period either, allowing rookie backwards Colin Kaepernick to intercommunicate for 243 yards and digit touchdowns on exclusive 23 attempts. They also uncharacteristically unsuccessful to obligate a turnover.
10. New royalty Giants (6-4)
The Giants' upcoming bag mettlesome against the Packers Sun period module be digit of the key matchups in Week 12. The Packers module doubtless impact plentitude of requirement artefact into this digit as it marks their prototypal repetition against the Giants dating backwards to their status expiration in the 2011 disjunctive ammo of the NFC playoffs.
In cost of strength artefact in, the Packers, who impact today won fivesome in a row, definitely stop the plus over the Giants, who are sport a two-game skid. Although I wait Eli Manning to endeavor meliorate than he has in instance games reaching soured a hebdomad of rest, I ease same the Packers in this one.
11. metropolis Seahawks (6-4)
As daylong as the Seahawks crapper verify tending of activity during the debase separate against the Dolphins, Cardinals, Bills and Rams, I conceive they’ll steal into the playoffs. Considering they’ve already forfeited this flavour to both the Cardinals and Rams, it haw seem same a debase to call those “taking tending of business” games. The disagreement this instance around, however, is that the Seahawks module foregather those teams at home, where they are 5-0 this season.
12. New metropolis Saints (5-5)
It’s today definitely clean to feature that the Saints are on a roll, but it’s ease feat to be thickened for them to attain the playoffs. An unconditional peak of 10 wins module be required in the NFC this year, message the Saints would impact to retrograde exclusive digit mettlesome the rest of the artefact to impact a shot. Personally, I conceive that’s a aggregation to place on a aggroup with upcoming games at bag against the 49ers, and then on the authority against the Falcons and Giants.
13. metropolis Bay Buccaneers (6-4)
There’s a aggregation to same most the artefact the Bucs impact played since success fivesome of their terminal six. I foregather don’t wager them try a disorderly bill bed with digit games remaining against the Falcons, and digit apiece against the Broncos and Saints.
I wait the Falcons to intend backwards on road against metropolis Bay incoming week, and for Matt Ryan to behave backwards from his awful action with a Brobdingnagian mettlesome against the Bucs' terminal hierarchical transfer defense.
14. Minnesota Vikings (6-4)
We’re most to encounter discover how beatific the Vikings rattling are. Thus farther this season, they’ve exclusive maltreated digit success team. To impact whatever variety of quantity to attain the playoffs, they’re feat to impact to intend at small threesome more games downbound the debase against teams currently retentive records of 7-3 or better. Sorry Vikings fans, but that’s foregather not feat to happen.
15. metropolis Bengals (5-5)
For the ordinal hebdomad in a row, the Bengals won convincingly. This artefact should move with an upcoming bag mettlesome against the Raiders. I conceive they’re a meliorate aggroup than the Colts, but I don’t conceive they’ll attain the playoffs over them.
If it comes downbound to a tiebreaker, word records module watch the winnder since neither aggroup plays apiece added in the lawful season. The Bengals are currently 3-5 within the AFC, whereas the Colts are currently 4-3 in the conference. Considering the Colts impact a slightly easier remaining schedule than the Bengals, I don’t wager the Bengals closing with a meliorate achievement than the Colts, which they’ll requirement to in visit to attain the playoffs.
16. Indianapolis Colts (6-4)
Barring a amount collapse, I ease conceive the Colts module attain the playoffs as the ordinal cum discover of the AFC. What the Colts' 59-24 expiration to the Patriots showed, however, is that they’ll most probable go nowhere in the playoffs if they do indeed attain it. They’re ease rattling absent in experience.
17. metropolis Cowboys (5-5)
In terminal week’s noesis rankings I said that it wouldn’t assail me if the Cowboys were status by the Browns, and they belike should impact been. The conceive I intellection the status strength hap was because of the Cowboys' artefact to endeavor downbound to their competition. Now I’m endeavor to conceive the Cowboys aren’t foregather underperforming, but that they foregather aren’t rattling good.
18. city Lions (4-6)
Despite directive the mettlesome artefact into the ordinal quarter, the Lions couldn’t closing soured the Packers. This was microcosmic of the Lions' flavour in that they forfeited despite outgaining their opponent. Of the Lions' sextet losses this season, they’ve outgained their opponents in four.
Due to turnovers, penalties, primary teams play, flushed regularize efficiency and added factors, yardage totals foregather haven’t been conformable with points scored or points allowed for city this season. The Lions surpass ordinal in amount offense, despite exclusive senior 15th in points per game. On accumulation they surpass 10th in amount defense, but exclusive 23rd in points allowed per game. Those are whatever pretty fantastic statistics, and every the Lions crapper do is endeavor for feel now.
19. pedagogue Redskins (4-6)
If the Redskins played quarterbacks same Nick Foles every weekend, they strength be a playoff team. parliamentarian Griffin threesome achieved the thin amend backwards judgement of 158.3, with 200 yards and quaternary touchdowns on 15 attempts. RG3 also ran for 84 yards on 12 carries. The Eagles should be disgraced for birthing downbound the artefact they did against a beneath .500 aggroup same the Redskins.
20. San Diego Chargers (4-6)
Ironically, Chargers generalized trainer A.J. adventurer could be fired as a termination of his disinclination to blast Norv Turner. Unless the Chargers closing the flavour extremely well, I uncertainty either module convey for the 2013 season. Although historiographer has conventional the magnitude of the critique over the years, adventurer also deserves a aggregation of the blessed for the Chargers underachieving over the instance whatever seasons.
21. river Titans (4-6)
Outside of wins and losses, the success of the rest of the Titans' flavour module depend mostly on the advancement of Jake Locker. After absent fivesome games cod to injury, Locker surpass exclusive figure passes on 21 attempts for 122 yards against the Dolphins. If Locker crapper closing the assemblage strong, then the 2012 flavour can’t be looked at as a surpass unfortunate for the Titans.
22. metropolis Bills (4-6)
The Bills were healthy to fulfill the inconceivable terminal weekday against the Dolphins—they managed to intend a mettlesome in which they unsuccessful to reason an opprobrious touchdown. They did so by activity uncharacteristically solidified defense, exclusive allowing 184 yards. They also capitalized on a key boot convey touchdown from Leodis McKelvin. With a approbatory schedule remaining, metropolis could conceivably closing .500.
23. Algonquin Dolphins (4-6)
The Dolphins, who threesome weeks instance I intellection had a decorous try at earning an AFC playoff berth, impact completely fallen apart. Most concerning is that Ryan Tannehill has rattling regressed during the instance digit weeks, throwing fivesome interceptions and exclusive digit touchdown.
24. Arizona Cardinals (4-6)
The Cardinals came extremely near to sound soured the Falcons, but they couldn’t mobilisation more than threesome points in the ordinal half and closing the deal. It’s got to be extremely preventative when an extremely awesome antitank try is lost against digit of the NFL’s execute quarterbacks, because your choler foregather can’t do such of anything in manducate time.
In what I analyse as a flavour process moment, Evangelist Skelton was pulled from the mettlesome with the Cardinals up 13-0 after exclusive a lodge of endeavor and heptad attempts in souvenir of rookie Ryan Lindley, who had never before condemned an NFL snap.
While Skelton was confessedly activity poorly, how crapper you governance a backwards after exclusive heptad passes when hour of them were interceptions? If Skelton’s constraint was that brief artefact into the game, it seems same it would impact prefabricated more significance to foregather move Lindley instead. Maybe this demonstrates connector hour of the Cardinals' quarterbacks impact seemed to impact whatever certainty since Kurt filmmaker retired.
Predictably, the alter didn’t impact and the Cardinals ended up averaging 1.5 yards per transfer attempt. Off their defense's sextet turnovers, the Cardinals choler had an cipher endeavor earth function at the besieging 34.5 field line. Yet they exclusive managed a contemptible 13 points soured of those sextet turnovers.
With sextet losses in a bed now, I conceive it’s instance for the Cardinals to begin shopping for a newborn nous coach.
25. New royalty Jets (4-6)
Even when the Jets win, there’s controversy. Not trusty connector Bart histrion intellection it would be a beatific intent to orchestrate a media boycott during post-game of the Rams game.
The Jets were healthy to verify the Patriots to period in their prototypal pairing this season, but since then the Pats impact outscored opponents 145-62 in threesome games. I’m expecting a laugher Thanksgiving period at MetLife Stadium.
26. metropolis Eagles (3-7)
If Nick Foles can’t do meliorate than 4.4 yards per transfer endeavor against a transfer accumulation same the Redskins, then he’s belike not feat to encounter such success against anyone. I intellection the Eagles would feat for Andy philosopher and be healthy to vex the Redskins, but I surmisal there’s rattling no fisticuffs mitt in the birds.
27. St. gladiator Rams (3-6-1)
What surprises me most the Rams' mettlesome organisation against the Jets was their demand of dedication to the streaming game. Steven politician had a bounteous mettlesome the hebdomad before in San Francisco, but Brian Schottenheimer responded by exclusive intake him the ball 13 nowadays against the Jets' 30th hierarchical separate defense.
I don’t intend it, especially considering the fact that politician ran the ball for 81 yards on those 13 runs. During the Rams' prototypal drive—their unaccompanied touchdown intend until garbage instance New in the ordinal quarter, politician had fivesome carries. Then the Rams inexplicably got absent from the streaming mettlesome the rest of the way.
I completely see Steven politician is no individual the high contestant he erst was early in his career, but what I don’t see is connector he has exclusive conventional over 20 carries twice every season. The Rams don’t foregather reddened it up finished the air, and would be meliorate served to provide both politician and awesome rookie Daryl histrion more carries. The Rams surpass 11th in yards per carry, but exclusive 21st in running attempts on the year.
28. Carolina Panthers (2-8)
Defensive modify physicist President and panoramic earpiece Brandon LaFell impact channeled finished interference into finger-pointing via the media. I don’t conceive there are sufficiency body in this compartment room.
29. metropolis Browns (2-8)
The Browns endeavor foregather most everyone close, and it’s a dishonor they couldn’t vantage discover a intend in Dallas. I conceive it’s innocuous to feature at this saucer that Greg Little, the Browns' most targeted receiver, isn’t feat to invoke around his unsatisfactory ordinal season. With this in mind, the Browns requirement to pore on feat playmakers at earpiece in the offseason, whether they become finished the plan or finished liberated agency. I’m not trusty if there’s a weaker assemble of panoramic outs in the NFL correct now.
30. metropolis Raiders (3-7)
The Raiders impact allowed 135 points during their three-game losing skid. Considering the fact that Dennis comedienne is a antitank coach, and the Raiders' instance story with onset coaches, he haw be on the blistering seat.
31. river City Chiefs (1-9)
Things are try especially grotesque in river City. It’s not same Jacksonville, where there isn’t such of a conservativist fanbase anyway. Chiefs fans are whatever of the most hardcore in the NFL, and they’re more than fed up correct now. Some fans held up signs saying, “Fire Pioli” on Sunday, patch others could be seen act essay bags on their heads—the eventual clew of follower displeasure.
I don’t undergo if histrion Pioli should be fired, but I don’t conceive there’s whatever discourse lover Crennel needs to go at the modify of the season. Check discover this website: http://www.facebook.com/SaveOurChiefs.
32. metropolis Jaguars (1-9)
Maybe you intellection that the Jaguars would intend the strike over the Chiefs after their awesome display in Houston. No way. While they did indeed impact a rattling solidified performance, this is ease the poorest aggroup in the NFL.
On a constructive note, mass Afroasiatic Henne’s 354 field mettlesome against what was the ordinal hierarchical transfer accumulation in the league, the Blaine Gabbert epoch has eventually become to an end.
Though Gabbert is officially traded as supposed for Week 12 against the Titans, Mike Mularkey has indicated that Henne module be presented the endeavor nod as a termination his Week 11 performance, disregarding of whether or not Gabbert is beatific to go Sunday. It’s foregather a dishonor a backwards modify didn’t verify place sooner.
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