Week 6 Power Rankings

Nice league, NFL. Just two teams with winning records in the AFC. Sixteen teams, or half of Roger Goodell's kingdom, sitting in a clump at either 3-2, 3-3 or 2-3. No true elite class, what with teams like Houston and San Francisco freshly embarrassed at home in Week 6, and no way to define the pecking order in the AFC East, where life is a confusing mess of 3-3s. Only in the once-lowly NFC West are they feeling good about themselves these days, even if it did take 10 years of famine. With three winning teams, that division has the entire AFC beat all by itself and reigns as the best of the bunch.

You like debates this fall? Try to power rank this morass of mediocrity. Here's my latest stab at the order of things. The undefeated Falcons are already my fifth team to climb to No. 1 in the regular season, but I wouldn't suggest they get too comfortable. It's that kind of year in the NFL, where parity has meant the death of predictability, and every week seems to reconfigure the landscape of a league that has stopped making sense. I get the need to keep those TV ratings soaring, but this is ridiculous. Now on to this week's rankings...

NFL Power Rankings