Rnk | LY* | Team | Record+ | Comments |
1. | 2. | Denver Broncos | 4-1 | Manning is only 2 behind Favre's career record 508 TD passes. |
2. | 4. | San Diego Chargers | 5-1 | Opening loss in Arizona by a single point has become a distant memory. |
3. | 5. | Philadelphia Eagles | 5-1 | Offense finally came alive against the Giants. |
4. | 6. | Dallas Cowboys | 5-1 | Murray joins arguably the greatest of all time, Jim Brown, as the only players ever to gain over 100 yards rushing in each of the first 6 games of a season. |
5. | 7. | Arizona Cardinals | 4-1 | Snapped an 8 game losing streak against the Redskins. Alone in first place in the brutally tough NFC West. |
6. | 8. | Indianapolis Colts | 4-2 | Recovered their third onside kick of the season, no one else has recovered any. |
7. | 9. | San Francisco 49ers | 4-2 | Overcame a 14 point first half deficit in part thanks to a ridiculous offensive pass interference against Cook that led to a punt and an unlikely 80 yard TD pass with under 5 minutes remaining 'til halftime. |
8. | 1. | Seattle Seahawks | 3-2 | Lost only once in their previous 20 home games before Sunday night. Repeating is hard. |
9. | 3. | Cincinnati Bengals | 3-1-1 | Both teams kicked OT FGs before Nugent missed a 36 yarder as time expired resulting in the first tie of the season. |
10. | 10. | Green Bay Packers | 4-2 | Rodgers would not except defeat, engineering a pair of late fourth quarter drives of 60 yards or more to vanquish his former coordinator Philbin. |
11. | 11. | New England Patriots | 4-2 | Brady upped his career record to 23-2 against the Bills. |
12. | 13. | Baltimore Ravens | 4-2 | Set a franchise record for most points in a road game with 48. |
13. | 14. | Detriot Lions | 4-2 | Pitt grad Austin has turned around the defense as coordinator. |
14. | 18. | Carolina Panthers | 3-2-1 | Have to be happy about Newton's return to being a dual threat, hopefully Burficts' incredibly dirty actions of twisting the ankle of Newton and Olsen in the pile after plays were dead will not have any affect going forward. |
15. | 12. | New York Giants | 3-3 | Schedule makers did them no favors with trips to division rivals Philly and Dallas in consecutive weeks. |
16. | 16. | Kansas City Chiefs | 2-3 | Reid has a 13-2 record coming off a bye, of course 1 of the losses was last year. |
17. | 23. | Cleveland Browns | 3-2 | Also started 3-2 last year and by the end their coach and then front office were fired after a single season. |
18. | 15. | Houston Texans | 3-3 | A pair of fumbles on the last 2 possessions halted their furious comeback attempt which featured another Watt TD. |
19. | 19. | New Orleans Saints | 2-3 | Next 9 opponents are all currently .500 or better. |
20. | 24. | Chicago Bears | 3-3 | Cutler epitomizes Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. |
21. | 17. | Pittsburgh Steelers | 3-3 | Roethlisberger lost to the Browns for the first time in 19 starts. |
22. | 21. | Buffalo Bills | 3-3 | Chandler was the franchise's first TE to surpass 100 yards receiving in a game since Metzelaars in September of '92. |
23. | 20. | Atlanta Falcons | 2-4 | Smith's seat is getting hotter. |
24. | 22. | Miami Dolphins | 2-3 | Scored 14 fourth quarter points, then still managed to blow the lead by giving up 10 points in the final 5 minutes. |
25. | 25. | Minnesota Vikings | 2-4 | Optimism over Bridgewater's first appearance quickly fizzled with an 8 sack, 3 interception performance in his first start. |
26. | 30. | Tennessee Titans | 2-4 | Going nowhere with Locker, might as well take a look at Mettenberger. |
27. | 27. | Washington Redskins | 1-5 | Turned the ball over 4 times in the fourth quarter, the last a pick 6. Should have traded Cousins when he had value. |
28. | 26. | Tampa Bay Buccaneers | 1-5 | Time for Lovie to clean house, this is going to be a long term rebuild. |
29. | 28. | New York Jets | 1-5 | Late Geno pick 6 cost Vegas a lot of money. |
30. | 29. | St. Louis Rams | 1-4 | First team ever to have only a single sack after 5 games, had 53 last season. |
31. | 31. | Jacksonville Jaguars | 0-6 | Bortles a revelation, rest of the team not so much. |
32. | 32. | Oakland Raiders | 0-5 | Fought hard in Sparano's debut, lost anyway. |
*Last week's ranking