If you don't believe me, look at the post below this one and all the fun at 3-3 or so.
That said, it's time for the NFC Political Rankings.
And these aren't going to be easy this week. Tampa Bay loses, and they are a bad football team right now.
The problem is, at 3-3, they are the #3 seed in the NFC because most everyone else outside the NFC East and Minnesota in this conference sucks.
No, excuse me, I break out the Xavier Woods of the New Day here: They SUUUUUUUUUUUU-UUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.
So, even though the road would most certainly go through Philly or something like that, it becomes an interesting exercise to place Tampa Bay here.
Anyway:
1) Philadelphia
And it looked, late third quarter, as Dallas got a 20-3 halftime lead down to 20-17, that the refs were appearing to line up for the Cowboys. That is, until multiple unsportsmanlike conduct flags pretty much put that to bed, after it appeared the Cowboys, in the two-touchdown comeback, had gotten away with both Roughing The Passer and a pick/block in the back.
2) NY Giants
The three NFC East teams are 1-2-3, in my book, simply because they can't even prop up Brady enough to beat Pickett and the Steelers. And there's a very good chance, though not 100% (the 5-1 Vikings are going to want a word), these two teams may play 3 times in 8 weeks (Weeks 14 and 18, and then the NFC title game if these are the two remaining teams.
3) Dallas
Too much more doghousery, and there are at least two other candidates who could pass you. Get the house in order, Jones and McCarthy!
4) Tampa Bay
By a sliver over Minnesota, and only because of the same thing I've said every week since Week 1 on this team. And the more the struggles mount, the more Tom Brady is going to be screaming, especially with every week, the word mounting he has lost his marriage to Gisele by playing this season!
5) Minnesota
More because of the fact of "What do you bring to the table?" That's a very good team in Minnesota, but there's so much in front of them in the rigged NFL sphere...
NFC DUD OF THE WEEK:
Nominees:
Fourth place:
The San Francisco 49ers: Where the fuck was that #1 defense? And after coming back from one 14-point deficit, Atlanta actually holds to finish the job with them this time. That's one that's going to bite you square in the tookus come January, either for the division or for getting in the playoffs at all!
The Bronze Medal:
Tom Brady and the Tom Bradys: Good grief. After needing a blatant rig-job to get past the Atlanta Falcons, you stink up the joint even WORSE and lose to PITTSBURGH??? In such a manner than even the Yinzer UrinatingTree can't figure out how? AND NEITHER CAN I!
If not for the fight in New Orleans and the stray rigged flag, they might have one win on the season, and THAT is against the Cowboys!!!!
The runner-up:
The Carolina Panthers in general, and soon-to-be-former Panther WR Robbie Anderson in particular: The new coach has got a lot to deal with, and Steve Wilks is probably going to have to cut Anderson after tossing him off the field during the game after two arguments with his position coach!
Anderson is almost-certainly only on the team because he played for former coach Matt Rhule, so I can't see that going on any longer. The only reason he probably already hasn't been traded is a $20,000,000 two-year cap hit. They ARE considering trading him. With the situation with some teams (including our clear winner of the week, which I'll get to in a second!), there's no chance, in my mind, that Anderson will see another snap for Wilks. He'll either be traded or cut, THIS WEEK.
Normally, that would be the winner. The Panthers, at 1-5, have the #1 draft pick right now and may damn well need it for the housecleaning they may have to do.
That said, you weren't Super Bowl contender ideas:
The winner:
A GREEN BAY PACKER TEAM WHICH HAS PROBABLY SHUT OUT THE QUARTERBACK.
Normally, in a situation like this (yes, I know the Jets are 4-2 and the like, but you've now lost back-to-back home games for the first time in years and back-to-back games for the first time under this coach), it'd be the coach losing the team.
But let's be blunt here: Aaron Rodgers is above this team and has been for years. And now I think HE has lost the team. He came within probably three inches, start of the game, of a "HE DID WHAT???" pick-six for the Jets...
About the only way this season gets righted, IMODO, is if the Red Tsunami hits AND the NFL then pivots to Rodgers, somehow, and he navigates his way through the Wild Card round and somehow beats Philly in the NFC title game or something.
7-10 appears to be their ceiling, and that's a high ceiling. This is the worst Packer team in AT LEAST A DECADE, and, too much more of this, and there will be plenty of good seats available as season-ticket holders dump this team and attempt to recoup some cash on the secondary market.
But any illusions this team is going to even see the NFC Championship Game can be cleanly done away with, for the moment.
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