NFL Power Rankings, Week 11

Strange that it took so long in a year in which the NFL's lower class has been almost historically bad, but the Bills officially got the league's firing season started Tuesday by dismissing head coach Dick Jauron. For those of you who had Washington's Jim Zorn in the first-to-go pool, better luck next time.

A quick word about Jauron: Strictly from a win-loss standpoint, he deserved his fate, and it's true what they say about nice guys not finishing first too often. But Jauron's guys always played hard for him, and the Bills I've talked to over the years universally seemed to respect and admire him.

It's a bottom-line business, but in both his head coaching stints, in Chicago and Buffalo, Jauron didn't exactly luck out in terms of his team's quarterback situation or its front office depth. With the Bears, he was always making do with a Jim Miller or a Shane Matthews, and in Buffalo, it was J.P. Losman, Trent Edwards, or Ryan Fitzpatrick. It's hard to win too much in this league if you're always trying to make chicken salad out of you-know-what at quarterback.

At some point, Jauron will resurface as a coveted defensive coordinator candidate in the NFL, and he'll remain one of the quality people in the game. But his Bills tenure is over, and firing season is back upon us once again. Now on to this week's rankings...

NFL Power Rankings

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