This is my power top 16: 1. San Diego Chargers (8-2) +2 2. Indianapolis Colts (9-1) -1 3. Chicago Bears (9-1) +1 4. Baltimore Ravens (8-2) +1 5. New England Patriots (7-3) +1 6. Denver Broncos (7-3) -4 7. Carolina Panthers (6-4) +4 8. Dallas Cowboys (6-4) +5 9. New Orleans Saints (6-4) -2 10. Jacksonville Jaguars (6-4) +5 11. Kansas City Chiefs (6-4) +3 12. Cincinnati Bengals (5-5) +4 13. New York Giants (6-4) -5 14. Seattle Seahawks (6-4) -5 15. Pittsburgh Steelers (4-6) +3 16. San Francisco 49ers (5-5) +4 Honorable Mention: New York Jets (5-5), Philadelphia Eagles (5-5), Atlanta Falcons (5-5), Miami Dolphins (4-6)
Saints beat themselves these past 2 weeks. Had little to do with Pitt or Cincy. When teams start to actually manhandle us on both sides of the ball, then I would put the Saints lower ranked. Pittsburgh is nowhere near the 11th best team. They were really fortunate to win yesterday, if it had not been for that silly personal foul on pancaking Roethlisberger on the turnover that resulted in a Cleveland TD. Jacksonville sucks. I can live with Dallas being ahead. That's fair, although Indy shot themselves in the foot all day long.
I rethought my positioning of Dallas and Saints and swapped them. Romo is really impressive and would be 4-0 with him except for that bizarre and unfortunate ending to the Skins game.
