This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/nfl by /u/NFLPowerRankers on 2024-10-22 20:04:13+00:00.

Welcome to week 7 of the r/NFL Power Rankings! At a glance, this week was overshadowed by a few unnecessary injuries, like Chris Godwin in the final minute of SNF. Based on play, Deshaun Watson also shouldn’t have been on the field to begin with before suffering an Achilles tear. The Bills are back in the driver seat against a weak Tennessee team, the Patriots look to be the next early 2010’s Saints with Drake Maye already lighting up the league. The Giants lost a divisional matchup to Philadelphia, unable to compete with the Eagles concept of “run the ball”. However most Pennsylvanian eyes are on the Steelers, who are playing well regardless of who they plug in at quarterback. Shanahan left another Kansas City game empty handed, while the Chiefs look like proof you don’t need sleep until the postseason. Is any team as sneaky as the Cardinals? Discuss! 28/32 Reporting

# Team Δ Record Comment
1. Chiefs – 6-0 If you had said that the Chiefs were going to be the last undefeated team before the season started, you probably wouldn’t have gotten much push back. If you had said they would do it as a ground and pound team you probably would have received a little bit more flak. If you had said they’d do it with Mahomes throwing 6 touchdowns and 8 picks, people would have laughed at you. The reality is that the Kansas City Chiefs are playing some of the most efficient football possible. The resurgence of Kareem Hunt running behind the best interior line in the NFL has been an absolute pleasure to watch. While there is no question that this team is significantly less exciting to watch on offense than the teams in 2018 – 2020 or 2022, I would argue that it is every bit as good. This is a team that is built to dominate time of possession, styme opposing offenses, and control field position with a great special teams unit. If you are watching the Chiefs and expecting Mahomes to throw for 350 and 4 TDs you’re very likely going to be disappointed. If you are watching the Chiefs and expecting them to win games, you’re in for a great time. Simply put this is a team that wins games.
2. Lions +1 5-1 RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA JARED GOFF JARED GOFF JARED GOFF JARED GOFF JARED GOFF JARED GOFF JARED GOFF JARED GOFF. That guy is so good. I love my football team. This is so cool. The Detroit Lions won an absolute thriller over the (really good!!) Minnesota Vikings. People are running out of criticisms of Goff after he carved up the number one defense through pressure and by diagnosing Minny’s disguises both pre and post-snap on a day where the offensive line struggled and the running game was less than ideal. There’s a tendency among those not familiar with the Lions to claim that Ben Johnson is this puppet master that has made Jared Goff good. (1) Goff designs this offense with Johnson, something they both have said multiple times that I guess people just ignore? (2) Ben Johnson isn’t checking out of plays at the line and carving up the hardest defense to read and react to in the league. Shoutout that guy Goaty-Goffington—Detroit’s hero, muse, and love.
3. Ravens +1 5-2 I’m quickly running out of synonyms and analogies to describe the weekly brilliance of Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henry. I’m also running out of ways to say the defense isn’t playing up to their potential and that penalties/special teams blunders are holding the Ravens back from reaching their ceiling. Sooooooo, yeah. 5-2 is pretty sweet. Divisional road game on a short week would be pretty worrisome if it wasn’t at Cleveland without Cooper/Watson. Here’s hoping our secondary doesn’t continue to look lost and confused against a fresh off the bench Jameis Winston.
4. Vikings -2 5-1 That Lions-Vikings matchup sure as hell lived up to its heavyweight billing. The stars on both ends played like stars, with Jefferson roasting man coverage, Darrisaw making blocks we’ve never seen before and Greenard racking up 9 pressures and a sack against maybe the best offensive line in football. And there were elite coaches to buoy those elite player performances, but the difference in this game ultimately came down to Ben Johnson having the answers for everything Brian Flores threw at him, knowing how to exploit zones in coverage and setting up Goff to have the game of his life. Here’s hoping the next two Vikings-Lions matchups this year have just as much fireworks.
5. Bills +1 Josh Allen finally has the weapons he needs! After narrowly escaping out of Metlife with a win last week the Bills came to play this week against the meddling Titans. The return of James Cook and the trade for Amari Cooper jolted the offense to the tune of 34 points and over 400 yards of offense. Bills Mafia has certainly played a huge role lately for the Bills as they extended their regular season home win streak (dating back to last year) to 6 wins. The revamped Bills will look to ride the momentum into a week 8 non conference battle with the Seahawks.
6. Texans -1 5-2 The Texans have invested four 1st round picks, two 2nds, and $137,164,000 guaranteed into an O-Line that leads the league in pressure given up on four man rushes. CJ Stroud faced pressure on 62.1% of his dropbacks on Sunday leading to his worst day statistically as a pro. We are well past the “They just need time to gel” phase, this is officially a major problem for OC Bobby Slowick and OL Coach Nick Strausser. And they need to figure it out quick because the schedule from here on out gets absolutely brutal.
7. Packers +1 5-2 The bad news is the Packers turned the ball over 3 times and the defense for the first time this year failed to generate turnovers of their own. The good news is the defense clutched up to allow only 22 points and Jordan Love was able to pull out a game winning drive for the W! The special teams as a unit still kinda suck but Brandon McManus made all his kicks (a rarity for us) and Danny Whelan averaged 59 yards per punt and made a clutch hold on a bad snap for the game winning field goal. The pass rush finally showed up with Stroud being hurried for almost half of his snaps and limited him to only 86 yards. Joe Mixon ran all over us but we can get better at that! Green Bay once again wins without their A-game, we absolutely take that!
8. Commanders +1 5-2
9. Steelers +3 5-2-0 To describe the feeling of Steelers fandom, there is the before and there is the now. Before, there was a despair about the offence. Year after year, no matter what changes there were, the offense was always a source of anxiety. Now, there are better options and it’s a difficult thing to get used to. There’s choice at QB. One with young legs who can run. The other, a veteran who can make plays and takes good care of the ball. An OC who calls good plays. On the defensive side, there’s always a feeling that they’re in it. That they can cause a turnover, even when it seems like the other team has a legitimate chance of scoring. Instead of the desperation of “Please offense, just do something”, knowing it will never happen, there’s a curiosity about what could be. Instead of bargaining with the football gods to have the defense do something improbable and save the game undeservedly, the defense actually does pull of miracles on a semi-regular basis. Where this team goes from here with the QB situation is still to be decided, and probably won’t be known until well after the bye week. There has to be that sense of mystery. It’s a smart place to keep other teams from being able to do that scouting and gameplanning.
10. Buccaneers -3 4-3 fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
11. Eagles +3 4-2 A lot went right, but the Philadelphia way is to complain: the team has yet to score in the first quarter, they converted exactly 1 third down (a flukey conversion at that), and Nick Sirianni is still the head coach. Okay, fine, let’s review the good: Saquon Barkley continues to dominate, this time against his former team; the offense is so much better with AJ Brown on the field; the defense is finally starting to click with their young pieces (and, the Bryce Huff stat-tracker is less-depressing to look at); the next 2 games are very winnable. Up next, Dougie P will visit his statue at the Linc, where a Jags loss may mean he stays there while his team travels home without him. Sirianni will comfort him in the hulking shadow of Nick Foles’ bronze dong, and say, “They don’t understand me, either.” The two weep in each other’s arms. Cut to black.
12. Bears +1 4-2 Having been among the first two teams to report to training camp, the Bears were due for a bye. Coming into it, they solidified their defensive performance from last year as a solidly top ten, and arguably top five unit, and finally figured out their offense to a high-flying level. Expectations are high for the team, having been flexed into the CBS G…

Content cut off. Read original on old.reddit.com/…/official_rnfl_week_7_power_ranki…