SI's NFL Power Rankings

[RugbyMuffin]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/dr_z/09/03/week.1/index.html#?eref=T1

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Last Week: -- Arizona Cardinals
I liked them as a team on the rise. Then Matt Leinart crashed. Not supposed to happen. Not in the script. Unless you see 2008 as another chapter in the inspirational drama of Kurt Warner.

 

[CaptTurbo]

Now that is crazy.

 

[clif]

That dude lost his mind ions ago. He hasn't been readable in years.

 

[TJ]

well....at least we are still ahead of the Rams and the 49ers in his book

 

[Sandan]

Dr Z is a Cardinals hater, has been for a long time

 

[starraz]

We are gettin no love from the national press in the preseason predictions department.

Just the way I like it.

 

[earthsci]

Dr Z is a Cardinals hater, has been for a long time

I REALLY disagree with this. His wife is from Phoenix. He usually has us ranked higher than the other "experts" ranking. He doesn't drink the koolaid because he isn't a Cards fan but that doesn't make him a hater. Seth Wickersham is what a hater is.

 

[football karma]

not to pick on one guy in particular

but I have become so absolutely jaded / blaise about pre-season ranking, pre-season predicitions, week by week rankings, weekly predictions and the like.

Like mock drafts, the only thing you can be sure of is that they are wrong.

Interesting fact: take Dr. Z, or King, or Prisco, or any of their ilk--- paid to think and write about football 365 days a year. Because of their media credentials, they get access to GMs, Coaches and players that the average fan doesnt.

Yet they are no better picking games straight up, or against the spread than average fans.

All of their professional knowledge doesnt provide any worthwhile insight that can be used to pick games better than amateurs.

I read the stuff, but it just doesnt mean anything to me.

 

[Indiana Hoosier]

Dr. Z, speaks with forked tongue ("Old Apache Saying").