TDMMC NFL Power Ten, Week 1

[CF DolFan]

I think this is a pretty good top 10 considering the lack of info to go off of at this point of the season.

[Brian Fein]

Wow somebody had the Saints.....the defending Champs at #7? I know it is only week one and it takes a few weeks for these rankings to start leveling out but good lord someone thinks pretty low of them!!!!!!

That might have been me.  I was just generally unimpressed by the Thursday night, opening night snoozefest game.  If they were powerful, they should have blown the Vikings away, considering how inept the Vikings offense was in that game.  I don't care that they're returning champions, you have to earn the #1 spot, and they just looked "meh" to me on opening night.

We'll see tonight if they've improved against the same 49ers team that got blown out by the mighty, mighty Seahawks.

[Dave Gray]

I didn't put the Saints at #1, but they were still high on my list.  It's fine, though.  It's too early to tell.  I think they deserve a spot in the top 10, but where doesn't really matter.

I think the teams that will be interesting to track are the teams that lost, but are traditionally good -- Vikings, Cowboys, etc.  I think that the Cowboys would probably beat the Chiefs head-to-head, but you just can't make assumption, especially this early in the season.  There are always a couple of teams that rise up to be great and a couple of teams that fall from grace.

[fyo]

I had the Saints #1. No other team had shown anything worthy of taking the spot, IMHO, and I'm not going to try and base my (completely accurate) ranking on just a single game.

[Dave Gray]

I, personally, had the Packers at #1.  They looked the most dominant in the pre-season (which doesn't amount to anything, I know.)  If this were college, they'd be the equivalent of the #1 in the polls, before the season started.  Since they won, I kept them there.

Where I'm going to have trouble is with teams that weren't on the list at all in the first week, but did well in week 2.  Do they jump a crappy 2-0 team?

[Brian Fein]

In my mind, the Cowboys and Vikings may as well be the worst teams in the league.  The Cowboys lost to Chicago and Washington, two teams that, last season, had a COMBINED 11 wins.  The Vikings have a QB who has so far thrown 4 picks and only 1 TD and have scored a grand total of 17 points in 2 games (with one TD handed to them on a platter by Ricky).  Neither of these two teams deserve even one iota of consideration when discussing the league's best teams.

[Sunstroke]

Neither of these two teams deserve even one iota of consideration when discussing the league's best teams.

I don't have either one in this week's PT at all...didn't even consider them.

Speaking of which... GET YOUR NEW PT IN TO MAINE ASAP!!

[MaineDolFan]

Speaking of which... GET YOUR NEW PT IN TO MAINE ASAP!!

Two.

It's 11:52am.

I have two members PT votes thus far.

[Sunstroke]

You should just use the two people's PTs that already sent them in...those are obviously really good PT rankings.

[AZ Fins Fan 55]

Sorry being out West a lot of times I do not log onto my computer until after 9:00am (12:00 for you East Coasters) after my morning meetings here in the office. I sent mine in as soon as I logged on!!!!

[Dave Gray]

My week 2 PT was tough.  One 2-0 team didn't even make my list.

[Brian Fein]

Sent mine.

FYI - You should allow people all day Tuesday to submit their choices.  I personally won't make any picks until MNF is over, and I don't think you should expect it to be the first thing on everyone's mind Tuesday morning.

[fyo]

I second Brian's motion to allow all day Tuesday.

Mine will be along in a few hours...