Saturday, January 2, 2016

2015 NFL Power Rankings Week 16

Ok, I'm late. By like, more than a week. So you're getting double this time! Just kidding. You're getting like half. But you still get the rankings, so fuck it.

1. Arizona Cardinals

They almost lost their spot after beating the Eagles 40-17. And now they're half a standard deviation above anybody else after one of the most dominant wins of the season by any team. See-ya Green Bay.

2. Seattle Seahawks

Not a good game against St. Louis, but not actually that bad. This was just a lot of bad luck. The first game, on the other hand... but that was a long time ago.

3. Cincinnati Bengals

Nobody else is playing well enough to catch up with this team that seems to have very little hope at this point with Dalton out.

4. Denver Broncos

5. Pittsburgh Steelers

6. New England Patriots

7. Carolina Panthers

8. Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Yes, the Bucs passed the Chiefs. They'll pass the Panthers too with any sort of luck Sunday.

9. Kansas City Chiefs

10. New York Jets

Not actually as much of an upset as the media made it out to be.

11. St. Louis Rams

12. Buffalo Bills

13. Oakland Raiders

Not them again!

14. Baltimore Ravens

15. Minnesota Vikings

Isn't it exciting to watch how far the Packers have fallen?

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16. Houston Texans

JJ Watt is amazing, but really I'm just building up suspense. You know the Packers can't have actually fallen that far.

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17. Detroit Lions

HAHA Green Bay you got passed by the LIONS!

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18. Green Bay Packers

Ok, fine. But it's really fun to see them this low.

19. Chicago Bears

The difference between the Bears and the Lions is less than a 200th of a standard deviation.

20. Atlanta Falcons

To put things in perspective, the team that just beat the 14-0 Panthers is more than a 5th of a standard deviation behind Chicago.

21. Dallas Cowboys

22. Jacksonville Jaguars

23. Philadelphia Eagles

How can you fire Chip when he beat the Patriots?!? Oh wait, everybody's beating the Patriots nowadays.

24. Washington Redskins

25. San Diego Chargers

26. New York Giants

27. Tennessee Titans

28. San Francisco 49ers

29. Miami Dolphins

30. Cleveland Browns

Played the Chiefs as well as anybody has in a while.

31. Indianapolis Colts

32. New Orleans Saints

Top 5 offense! Better than New England's! But it's hard to do much damage with literally the worst defense of all time.

And while we're on the subject of Football Outsiders, IT'S ABOUT FUCKING TIME THE CARDINALS MADE IT INTO THE TOP SPOT. That is all.