NFL Power Rankings, Week 7: 49ers Movin' On Up

Pack would be the toughest match-up, but anyone else, I’d give us a 50/50 shot at.

Does anyone else feel like if this Lions game was at home we would have won by at least 2 scores?

During the summer, I was all over the Patrick Peterson hype. Gotta cure the secondary. Best playmaker since Woodson. and so on. And we took… Aldon Smith.. who?. The thing is, when you have a leader – in anything, sport, business, life, family, you name it – and you give that leader a team, other teammates respond. You give a guy like Patrick Willis a rookie CB with expectations of the world on his shoulders, and the best that happens is P52 yelling from a distance what he needs to do different on the next play. But you give a guy like P52 a rook like Aldon, and show confidence in Bowman and Brooks, and all of a sudden your leader has a team. And he recognizes that you’re putting your resources – your valuable first round pick – on the line to give him a team. You (meaning, front office) make it important. He makes it important. He shapes that linebacking crew. Helps them figure it out before the play, not tell them what’s wrong after. This is the next generation version of the Steelers and Ravens of the last two decades. And that’s the energy that other pro’s need. Guys like Carlos, Whitner, Goldson (don’t kick the ball please we have a good punter). You think they’ll half-ass a play (don’t kick the ball please) with a rock-solid LB crew led by P52 in front of them? I think the tackle highlight-reel so far this year answer the question. And the guys right up front know that S$#%# is being taken care of behind them, and they can do the things they do well… Smith and McDonald are best in class right now. So we know Aldon is good, but when you think about it this way, that’s the best pick in a long long time.

Kudos to Harbauaalke for that one.

They’ve played a much harder schedule, and have done very well. The only knock against them is the loss to the Titans, but every other game has been decided by more than 14 points. The Packers, on the other hand, have played a ridiculously easy schedule with comparable numbers to the Ravens. There is no doubt that the Packers and Patriots offense are the best in the league, but they have very little balance, and what balance there is seems to favor the Patriots so far this season.

The Packers seem to be overrated by the national media. They may be the best team in the league, but they have some very close contenders, and they are not a very balanced team. A good team with a good coach could exploit their weaknesses. They are indeed the team to beat, but they are not the next coming of the Patriots of 2007.

The Ravens are by far the superior team.

That is my birthday, do you want me to die from alcohol poisoning?

Have you checked out the power rankings article on the league’s 32 head coaches, placing who would win in a Royal Rumble? The Harbaugh brothers tied for sixth. Personally, I’d probably have to give John the edge- living in Baltimore gives you street cred.

As Muhammad Ali said, “it ain’t bragging if it’s true”.

He certainly has a whole lot of big play explosive WR’s

and hate more that it’s true, but Baltimore’s passing game is starting to look more and more like a real NFL offense, not just one that relies on the run and their defense to win close games.

Their beatdown of the Steelers on opening day was quite the clinic in all three phases of the game.

When your D stops a shootout. Lions has the potential to start a shootout. D didn’t let is happen.

The Chargers are not. a. good. team. They don’t really even belong in the top 15. They’ve played pretty much the easiest schedule in the league, and have struggled a lot. The one time they played a good opponent they got whipped. I don’t understand why people keep putting the Chargers so high. As soon as they meet a team like the Niners, the Ravens, Patriots, Lions, Saints, anyone good, you’ll see they’re just not that good.