Zillawrath's NFL Rankings #4

[Seth Drakin of Monster Crap]

1. Indianapolis Colts - The Colts have regained the #1 spot this week.

2. Chicago Bears - The Bears had a bye week and I have been given them the boot from #1.

3. Denver Broncos - It has been a long time coming and now, even though they played a weak team, the Broncos have proven to me to be the #3 team.

4. New England Patriots - The Patriots have gotten over their humilating defeat from Denver. But they will have a challenge on Monday Night at Minnesota and Sunday Night against Indianapolis afterwards.

5. New Orleans Saints - The Saints had a bye week so they fell.

6. Minnesota Vikings - The Vikings defeated Seattle in a big upset and that victory has been able to lift them into the top 10.

7. Cincinatti Bengals - After two bad weeks, the Bengals were able to beat Carolina, bringing them back into the top 10.

8. New York Giants - After a horrible 1-2 start, the Giants have been on a roll, not losing a single game since their bye week.

9. Atlanta Falcons - The Falcons took care of the Pittsburgh Steelers this week in OT. Vick threw 4 touchdowns and got his team into the top 10. Now that Vick seems like a good passer, the NFC has another team that might contend for the right to head to the Super Bowl.

10. St. Louis Rams - Because of a bye this week, the Rams barely stay in the top 10.

11. Baltimore Ravens - The Ravens however were not so fortunate because of questions involving Steve McNair's injury.

12. Seattle Seahawks - The Seahawks are in big trouble now that Matt Hasselbeck will be joining Shaun Alexander on the injury list.

13. San Diego Chargers - The Chargers really sucked this week. They move down because of that.

14. New York Jets - The Jets are no longer at an even record as they are above that.

15. Carolina Panthers - Alot of people thought that the team of Steve Smith and Keyshawn Johnson was unbeatable. The Bengals proved them all wrong.

16. Philadelphia Eagles - Donovan McNabb was once again stung by Ronde Barber and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

17. Kansas City Chiefs - The Chiefs still have some punch left in them. They got over that loss to Pittsburgh to beat division rival San Diego.

18. Dallas Cowboys - Bill Parcells and Cowboy fans may not buy this. But hostory shows that what the Cowboys did in replacing QBs halfway through a game without injury to the starter is seen as Dallas throwing in the towel.

19. Jacksonville Jaguars - Jacksonville got beat by the Texans so Jacksonville falls several spots this week.

20. Tampa Bay Buccaneers - Ronde Barber led the charge against Philadelphia and a 62 yard field goal allowed them to beat Philadelphia that night.

21. Houston Texans - The Texans proved they arent a one hit wonder by beating Jacksonville.

22. Green Bay Packers - Bret Farveshowed forms of his old self, but it was against the weak Miami Dolphins.

23. San Francisco 49ers - The bye week couldnt have come at a better time for the Niners. Even if they dropped a few more spots, they might be able to create a new game plan.

24. Pittsburgh Steelers - The Steelers looked like they were back, however...with Roethlisberger suffering another concussion, it looks like playoffs wont happen this year.

25. Washington Redskins - The Redskins will need the bye week that is coming up. They were beaten down by Peyton Manning even though they tried to injure him, as yes that was what they were trying to do. They failed of course.

26. Buffalo Bills - The Bills had a bye week and they needed it. They were beaten by New England again.

27. Oakland Raiders - Hooray!!! Oakland got their first win. About time.

28. Tennessee Titans - The Titans might win next week, but even playing the lowly Houston Texans might prove to be a challenge.

29. Cleveland Browns - The Browns lose yet again. What else is new.

30. Detroit Lions - Bad time for the Lions to have a week off after being able to get a win.

31. Miami Dolphins - The biggest phoneys this year. Miami couldnt even beat a very old Green Bay Packers team/

32. Arizona Cardinals - And now for the newest worst team in the NFL. The Cardinals performed a huge chokejob against the Bears and then give the pathetic Raiders their first win.

[Vice honcho room temperature]

Awesome Vikings cracking top 10. When they beat the Pats that should give them a spot in the top 5

[mysterydriver]

I wish Bledsoe would started the second half. If he failed to get anything going then, I could understand the benching. But making ONE misthrow, albeit in the end zone, seems lie a very petty reason to bench someone.

Romo's three INTs weren't that good either. I hope he doesn't start next week. (This may be influenced by the fact that I have Bledsoe on my fantasy team...)

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mysterydriver said:

I wish Bledsoe would started the second half. If he failed to get anything going then, I could understand the benching. But making ONE misthrow, albeit in the end zone, seems lie a very petty reason to bench someone.

Romo's three INTs weren't that good either. I hope he doesn't start next week. (This may be influenced by the fact that I have Bledsoe on my fantasy team...)

Bledsoe is expected to start next week. The benching was because a) Bledsoe is a statue and the line sucks, b) He has thrown 3 ints like the one last night and c) He wasn't supposed to pass the ball to that area on that play. He was given a toss or deep throw according to the writers here. Tuna is sick of him changing plays for no reason at the line.

[jrdchpmn]

jinxed said:

mysterydriver said:

I wish Bledsoe would started the second half. If he failed to get anything going then, I could understand the benching. But making ONE misthrow, albeit in the end zone, seems lie a very petty reason to bench someone.

Romo's three INTs weren't that good either. I hope he doesn't start next week. (This may be influenced by the fact that I have Bledsoe on my fantasy team...)

Bledsoe is expected to start next week. The benching was because a) Bledsoe is a statue and the line sucks, b) He has thrown 3 ints like the one last night and c) He wasn't supposed to pass the ball to that area on that play. He was given a toss or deep throw according to the writers here. Tuna is sick of him changing plays for no reason at the line.

Don't they realize they screw with people's fantasy teams when they decide to bench the QB ;D

Now Bledsoe was not that bad although the int in the endzone made him look bad...considering he already did that at least once this season...at least his int wasn't returned for a TD. But Romo did show given a little more experience and protection that he COULD lead this team. He needs to split the workload with Bledsoe or another veteran for a while then maybe he can shine...Tom Brady anyone

[B.A.]

As a rabid cowboys fan, I can tell you now that Bledsoe should not be starting anymore. Romo I hoping has much potential.

[Vice honcho room temperature]

I hate Cowboy fans always whinning and think they are entitled.

[Kevin Hamilton]

What's whinning? And as far as feeling entitlement that's b.s., cuz I bleed silver and blue and can say with no compunctions at all that when the team plays as poorly as they did against a team as good as the Giants, all they're 'entitled' to is the ass kicking they got. That was a horrible performance on pretty much all phases of the game.

The Bledsoe thing, though I didn't agree with the call for the benching had been building all season long. I like Drew alot but his immobility coupled with his decision making dating back to week 1 is what made Bill put Romo in, not the one INT on Monday.. I still don't know how I feel about it really.. Granted Drew can break your heart, but you can't put the loss of this game all on him--

-the offensive line deciding Strahan didn't need to be so much as distracted on his way to the qb

-to the run game being anemic and Julius gaining fewer than a hundred yards for the first time in four games

-to the defensive line allowing a hundred yard rusher for the first time this season in letting both Tiki and Jacobs chew up huge chunks of yardage

-to mental mistakes in the secondary allowing plays like the fifty yard td on the first drive

-inconsistent wide receiver play... 4th and 2 TO wide open and the ball hits him in the hands, thunk, drive killed

- mistakes in special teams, why did Crayton let that punt go when it wasn't even close to bouncing into and endzone for a touchback? Instead of fair catching at the fifteen, it gets downed at like the one foot line, and bang safety

- Romo had three picks of his own

The whole team played like crap. If you play like that, a loss is what you're going to get every time. So yes Bledsoe should shoulder some blame, but there's plenty of blame to pile on for all three losses.

One other point-

Bill Parcells and Cowboy fans may not buy this. But hostory shows that what the Cowboys did in replacing QBs halfway through a game without injury to the starter is seen as Dallas throwing in the towel.

There's merit to what you say there, but since you bring up history, switching qbs isn't necessarily indicative of throwing in the towel. Yanking Morton and putting in Staubach turned out pretty well. Which isn't to say that Romo is Captain America, and you're right usually the whole qb controversy is a bad thing, but in a historical context it's not totally a hard and fast rule that funeral dirges should be played for the team. That said, it looks grim, I'll admit, but there's ten games to play.

[Tonto Goldstein]

Bottom line- I just hope Dallas benches both Bledsoe and Romo and starts Matt Baker.

[Erik Majorwitz]

gogetemtigers said:

Bottom line- I just hope Dallas benches both Bledsoe and Romo and starts Matt Baker.

Parcells would be dead before that happens.

[jrdchpmn]

Drew Henson anyone?

[The Wraith]

LOL, Drew Henson.