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Football is back! Welcome to week 1 of the official r/NFL Power Rankings! There were zero shakeups, not a single surprise, every team played exactly as analysts predicted…right? Mayfield was in headlines for overshadowing Watson, but how about the Vikings’ decision to roll with Darnold over Cousins? Did Philadelphia forget to credit their commute for the win? Should every week be preemptively scrapped to fast forward to another Kansas City Lombardi? Discuss! 27/32 Reporting
| # | Team | Δ | Record | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Chiefs | – | 1-0 | After week one it would be difficult to be happier as a Chiefs fan and this was certainly a boon to the Chiefs #1 Agenda. Playing against one of the top teams in the NFL the Chiefs managed to play a fairly middling game and win. When your B- game is enough to beat the Ravens in a revenge game it’s a pretty good sign that you may be one of the best teams in the NFL. The rookies looked solid, with Xavier Worthy already popping up in Bills fans nightmares and Suamataia looking like an absolute steal at the end of the 2nd round. This is also coming off a week where the other contenders in the AFC either lost or looked like they may lose games against teams they shouldn’t be struggling with. It is also a great sign that the AFC West minus the Chiefs once again look like an incredibly weak division, with the Broncos and highly touted rookie Bo Nix looking especially awful. | |
| 2. | 49ers | – | 1-0 | Take a bow Jordan Mason: 28 carries for 147 yards and a TD in his first NFL start, leading the 49ers offense in a 32-19 drubbing of the Jets on MNF. The offense punted in their first drive of the night, then scored on the next 8 drives. The revamped D line won the battle in the trenches, never allowing the run game to get started, and increasingly pressuring Rodgers as the game went on. The team now looks forward to a Sunday matchup with the 1-0 Vikings. | |
| 3. | Lions | +1 | 1-0 | JAMESON WILLIAMS. DAVID MONTGOMERY. ALEX ANZALONE. AIDAN HUTCHINSON. JAKE BATES. These are who the proverbial game balls are being awarded to, as they led the Detroit Lions to their first win of the season over the Los Angeles Rams. LA has seemingly become the most significant rival to Detroit outside of the division, given the massive intertwining of our very recent team histories, and Monday night certainly felt like a rivalry game. Jamo season has officially arrived to the tune of 121 yards and 1 TD on five catches; Monty came into OT off a quarter of rest and promptly demolished every run to clinch the W; Anzalone was hopped up all over the defensive side, finishing with a game-high 13 tackles (including 3 tackles for loss); Aidan Hutchinson lived part-time in the Rams’ backfield, postin 11 pressures, 4 qb hits, and a sack; and finally, Jake Bates came in for a clutch game-tying FG in his NFL debut. There is quite a bit to clean up in all three phases of the game, but damn does it feel good to have football back and kick it off with a win over arguably a top 10 team in the league. Shoutout Stafford — that man played possessed. | |
| 4. | Ravens | -1 | 0-1 | "Illegal formation: 5 second delay on the blurb". A week 1 loss is never how you wish to start the season but for better or worse this game went almost exactly as most reasonable Ravens’ fans expected it to. Slimmed down Lamar was electric on the ground and in the air totaling nearly 400 yards of production. The offensive line, particularly the right side, remains a work in progress with 3 new starters and the collective unit having 0 pre-season snaps together. Todd Monken continues to heavily utilize Zay Flowers and the duo of Mark Andrews/Isaiah Likely looks to quell concerns about the receiving room. On the defensive side there was some miscommunications and costly timeouts with new coordinator Zach Orr but the nuts and bolts of Justin Madabuike, Roquan Smith, and a deep secondary should prove it’s strength over time. Losing to the back to back defending champs on the road by a toe certainly sucked but 10 days of rest to face the Raiders on a long trip east should be a quick bounce back. If not things will start looking dire rather quick. | |
| 5. | Texans | – | 1-0 | The new guys showed up big for the Texans. Stefon Diggs caught 2 TDs while Joe Mixon added a TD himself on 159 yards rushing. | |
| 6. | Eagles | +2 | 1-0 | After the Eagles turned it over on back-to-back possessions to start the first quarter of the 2024 regular season, you could feel Nick Sirianni’s seat warming from across continents. But the offense, who didn’t play a snap in the preseason, eventually settled in and put together a 34-point game good enough to beat a solid Packers team. The flashiest off-season signing, Saquon Barkley, looked as good as advertised, finding the endzone three times. The most expensive signing, however, Bryce Huff, looked…mostly invisible. The brightest spots aside from Barkley? Rookie CB Quinyon Mitchell and LBs Zack Baun and Nakobe Dean all put together very strong games against a good offense. Next up, ATL. | |
| 7. | Bills | -1 | 1-0 | ||
| 8. | Cowboys | -1 | 1-0 | Woooo doggy. The box score looks like an ass-whoopin, but it was worse. The Browns got a single first down on their first drive, and then didn’t get another until the second drive of the second half. They went nearly 30 minutes of game clock and allowed 27 unanswered points between first downs. Dallas sacked Watson six times, picked him off twice, and returned a punt for a TD. The running backs were held under 4 YPC, and Watson was held to 3.3 yards per pass attempt. Rookie O-linemen held up against possibly the nastiest DL in the league, and our 5th round corner held up as well. The offense was uninspiring, but they were efficient and protected the ball, which is all they needed to do. Also, and I can’t express this enough, fuck Deshaun Watson, he’s a piece of shit. Allegedly. | |
| 9. | Dolphins | +1 | 1-0 | This was exactly the type of game we needed to show we can win if we want to go anywhere this season. The offense looked unsettled and predictable for much of the afternoon, the defense struggles early, our offensive star put in cuffs prior to the game, the team dealt with plenty of adversity throughout the day but fought their way back to narrowly beat a pesky Jaguars team. The defense especially was able to rise up to the challenge and completely shut out the Jaguars in the second half on a day where the offense didn’t have their best stuff. The team won’t have too long to celebrate though as our next game is only three days from now where we’ll face a team that has dominated us in recent years in the Buffalo Bills. | |
| 10. | Rams | +2 | 0-1 | Dumb overtime rules aside, the Rams shouldn’t be too upset at this loss. They were riddled with injuries (missing four offensive linemen and Puka Nacua) and struggled in the redzone, with a Stafford INT and facemask call keeping them out of the endzone twice—yet still managed to be competitive against a Super Bowl contender with the game kinda coming down to a coin flip. There’s plenty of reason to be optimistic for the remainder of the season, as Kupp looks to be fully back to former self, Matt Stafford is still operating on an unconscious elite level, and the youngest and cheapest defense in the league looks hungry. | |
| 11. | Buccaneers | +6 | 1-0 | We heard that Commies and food rations go hand in hand, so we had to teach them the glorious art of Baking. | |
| 12. | Packers | -1 | 0-1 | Sometime around the start of the 4th quarter I typed a paragraph about how this game is a Mickey Mouse opener and how flying nine hours and hopping on a bus for another two and a half to play on a slip n slide cannot have any reasonable conclusions drawn from it. Then Jordan Love sprained an MCL on the final drive and I kinda had to throw it out because the team outlook is now much, much worse than it did before. Luckily Love has avoided a truly major injury that’s prevented us from being totally lost and instead are clinging to dear life behind Malik Willis hoping he doesn’t put us too far into a hole that Jordan can’t claw out of in the second half of the season. . | |
| 13. | Steelers | +8 | 1-0 | The Pittsburgh Steelers sit atop the AFC North as the sole club with a winning record, at least for now. The upcoming schedule is pretty positive with some winnable games, and then it’s backloaded with a lot of division games. This could work out well, because if the Steelers can put together a bit of a run and the Ohio teams struggle, they could have a better go of it late in the year. This week was somewhat strange. The refs really were uneven and made a lot of bad calls. The Steelers moved the ball well, but the entire team was basically Chris Boswell. Arthur Smith put him in a position to succeed, although when you are up 15-10, you take the FG late in the game to force the opponent to score a TD and 2-point conversion. The Falcons looked troubled. Cousins looked ambulatory and they kept him in the Pistol. In fact, the announcers keep mentioning the pistol in a not so subtle hint to Falcons fans that they are shooting themselves in the foot by having him out there. In regards to the refs, TJ was pretty much teeing off all day on … |
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