NFL Week 4 Power Rankings

The relative rankings in my model of the NFL teams as we head into week 4 of the season are listed below. I was going to put a cool looking graph in this post, showing their relative positions changing over the season but it was becoming such a burden to format. The number of blue and red teams is causing me headaches trying to get each team's trend-line look distinctive - next time.

The Patriots have lost top spot though - deservedly so. Even the non-astute (inastute? unastute? stute?) readers, of which there are none (the same number as astute readers then), will notice that it takes quite a while for teams to move in the rankings. The Cleveland Browns have been so bad over the last 2 years that they are still some way behind the Texans. On the other end of the scale, the Cardinals (still hurting from that loss last week) and Cowboys are still over-rated.

1. Philadelphia Eagles
2. New England Patriots
3. Kansas City Chiefs
4. Los Angeles Rams
5. Pittsburgh Steelers
6. Minnesota Vikings
7. Carolina Panthers
8. New Orleans Saints
9. Atlanta Falcons
10. Jacksonville Jaguars
11. Tennessee Titans
12. Miami Dolphins
13. Dallas Cowboys
14. Baltimore Ravens
15. Cincinnati Bengals
16. Los Angeles Chargers
17. Buffalo Bills
18. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
19. Seattle Seahawks
20. Detroit Lions
21. Green Bay Packers
22. Washington Redskins
23. Denver Broncos
24. San Francisco 49ers
25. Chicago Bears
26. Arizona Cardinals
27. Oakland Raiders
28. New York Giants
29. Indianapolis Colts
30. New York Jets
31. Houston Texans
32. Cleveland Browns