Rankings and Picks for Week Six

by Josh Kirkendall on Oct 14, 2009 12:24 PM EDT

I'm not one that often does NFL-specific subjects, outside of our 4-1 Cincinnati Bengals. Oh, that sounds good. Our, 4-1 Cincinnati Bengals. Each week we're asked to provide our own Power Picks to SB Nation. Then they combine all of the bloggers rankings and sort them out in some complicated formula (like adding them and dividing them) to come out with the ranking. Take note, I ranked the Bengals, last week, eighth overall. However, when complicated formula was applied to the other 31 bloggers rankings, we were listed as 14th in the SB Nation Power Rankings for Week 5. I'm sure a win over the Ravens will help us somewhat.

Below the jump I list the rankings I gave, as well as my winners for the week -- would have liked to wait a while, but someone mentioned something called a deadline. And Wiki says that a deadline is "narrow field of time that some sort of objective or task must be accomplished by." Bloggers. Deadlines. What has this world come to?

Here's the objective. The following is my rankings. You can debate (friendly, of course) my rankings and selections or make your own.

1	Indianapolis Colts	17	Miami Dolphins
2	Minnesota Vikings	18	Houston Texans
3	New York Giants	19	Green Bay Packers
4	New Orleans Saints	20	Jacksonville Jaguars
5	Denver Broncos	21	San Diego Chargers
6	Cincinnati Bengals	22	Seattle Seahawks
7	Philadelphia Eagles	23	Washington Redskins
8	Chicago Bears	24	Tennessee Titans
9	Atlanta Falcons	25	Carolina Panthers
10	Baltimore Ravens	26	Tampa Bay Buccaneers
11	New York Jets	27	Detroit Lions
12	San Francisco 49ers	28	Cleveland Browns
13	New England Patriots	29	Buffalo Bills
14	Pittsburgh Steelers	30	Kansas City Chiefs
15	Dallas Cowboys	31	Oakland Raiders
16	Arizona Cardinals	32	St. Louis Rams

Game	Winner
Houston @ Cincinnati	Cincinnati (d'uh)
Detroit @ Green Bay	Green Bay
St. Louis @ Jacksonville	Jacksonville
Baltimore @ Minnesota	Minnesota
NY Giants @ New Orleans	New York Giants
Cleveland @ Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh
Carolina @ Tampa Bay	Tampa Bay
Kansas City @ Washington	Kansas City
Philadelphia @ Oakland	Philadelphia
Arizona @ Seattle	Seattle
Tennessee @ New England	New England
Buffalo @ NY Jets	New York Jets
Chicago @ Atlanta	Atlanta
Denver @ San Diego	San Diego

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Not sure if we're better than the Eagles

But whatever, close enough

by jsl413 on Oct 14, 2009 12:31 PM EDT reply actions

They re-signed trotter

If that gives you any indication of their d. They lost dawkins and Jim Johnson died. You don’t replace that leadership.

by brandone on Oct 14, 2009 1:14 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions

WHAAAAAAAT!!!!!!!!!!!

by angry rabbit!!!! on Oct 14, 2009 10:27 PM EDT up reply actions

personally

I think it would be humorous if the Bengals and Eagles were tied in the power rankings.

by Cedric Benson Boat Party on Oct 14, 2009 12:58 PM EDT reply actions

everyone but McNabb would understand

by El_Danimal on Oct 14, 2009 1:17 PM EDT up reply actions

There's no tying in football

by jim0ijk on Oct 14, 2009 5:42 PM EDT up reply actions

HAH!

by FriarBob on Oct 14, 2009 6:23 PM EDT up reply actions

Not to shabby...

I think you have Dallas a little high. Also, didn’t the Raiders beat the Chiefs earlier this season?

by Peko94 on Oct 14, 2009 1:04 PM EDT reply actions

RE:

That’s one of the things with these power rankings. Do you primarily factor in face to face match ups? That’s kind of the way I think it should be too. But then you get these scenarios like the Big 12, when Texas, Texas Tech and Oklahoma beat each other up. Who would you rank ahead of who? IMHO, as of right now, I think the Raiders are much worse than the Chiefs.

Blogger at CincyJungle.com -- SB Nation Cincinnati Bengals blog.

by Josh Kirkendall on Oct 14, 2009 11:52 PM EDT up reply actions

Bengals are top 8...

We’re better than the Bears (stouter D, better running game, better QB pressure), and we tied the Eagles last year with our backup QB. But the Falcons haven’t done anything to really warrant being below the Bears, Eagles and Bengals.
6. Falcons
7. Eagles
8. Bengals
9. Bears
The Bears will lose to the Falcons in Atlanta this weekend, and the Bengals are artificially highly-ranked at #6.

And the TEXANS at #18 are close to where they should be. They’re playing like a middle-of-the-pack team, but a resurgence of their run game and a good display by Andre Johnson (#1 receiver in the league), along with QB pressure by their top 2 defensive players, Demeco Ryan and Mario Williams could spell disaster for the Bengals. Old Bengals would have relaxed this week, and been shocked by an amped up visiting opponent (to go along with a not-full stadium putting a damper on the team’s return from a 2-0 away stint against 2 divisional foes). This game has let-down game written all over it. There is plenty REASON FOR CONCERN with this weeks’ game.

by Yaccub Fleishcman on Oct 14, 2009 1:55 PM EDT reply actions

You make some good points, but....

Whit both their starting RG and LG out for the season from an Oline that is only average with them I think they have more to worry about than we do. Yea Williams and Ryan are pretty good but we have faced better this year. Their running game is pedestrian and they have only one WR who is good, very good actually, but we have taken #1 WRs out of games so far and made teams try to beat us with secondary players. If we let down they can beat us but if we can continue to play like we have we should win. We do have to stop playing down to the level of lesser opponents. No more games like the Browns game.