Week 2 is my favorite week of Power Rankings because it’s often the most ridiculous. It’s like polling eight people at a Dave Matthews Band concert in New Jersey and using that information to project the results of the presidential election (eat your heart out, Nate Silver). But we also have no other choice. Sure, we could go into this exercise with a stick up our rear ends and contend that teams like the Saints and Buccaneers and Seahawks and Chargers and Vikings are not really good enough to be considered end-of-year contenders. We would then be writing Power Rankings that did not reflect what we know so far and would not be all that exciting to read.
So with that said, this is our best effort at balancing what we’ve seen against what we think we know. It’s also a suitable way in which to shed selectively aggressive fan bases off my back like pond water from a duck.
