Hello and welcome to Week 2 of SI’s NFL power rankings. We’re coming to you from an airplane over the Atlantic Ocean, aboard which we just finished watching Panthers-Saints. Who said we were a dying civilization?
To me, we have one more week before we can start to pour cement into our hottest takes and firm them up. I think you can go through this list and see some very heady thoughts in the making. For example, what do we make of Justin Fields? The Bengals with Joe Burrow injured? This is also a week to hesitantly state that, once again, there are a very small handful of teams with the firepower to win a Super Bowl. Some of those teams, thanks to favorable weather and early scheduling, have already flexed that muscle.
You’ll notice some pretty significant shakeups, and you probably will each of the next few weeks as we try and get a grip on who these teams really are. Bear with us, it’s a turbulent flight.
