NFL.COM Rankings

[Dingus McGirt]

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000001071069/article/nfl-power-rankings-week-9-49ers-reclaim-no-2-bears-plunge?campaign=fb-nf-sf222452569-sf222452569&sf222452569=1

Interesting.  Ranked behind two teams the Colts beat.

[Hark]

The good news is, unlike college football, rankings are completely meaningless.

[IinD]

They obviously mean nothing, but not bad for a team that could've been a dumpster fire from week one.

[Detectacon]

It was the same way last week. 

[Hark]

Want to be clear, not dogging on the OP, just glad these people don't get to decide the fate of this team.

 

[NannyMcafee]

Media doesn't like talking good about the Colts. And when they do Pat McAfee and Reggie are present. Used to talk good on the herd but that ended when Andrew retired. 

[AZColt11]

FWIW, here are some from the Week 1 rankings:

 

Bears #6

Steelers #8

Chargers #10

Vikings #12 

Packers #14

Panthers #18

Colts #19

Bills #23

Niners #24 (bwahahaha!)

 

They aint in stone.

[TheMiz]

4 hours ago, Dingus McGirt said:

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000001071069/article/nfl-power-rankings-week-9-49ers-reclaim-no-2-bears-plunge?campaign=fb-nf-sf222452569-sf222452569&sf222452569=1

Interesting.  Ranked behind two teams the Colts beat.

Ranked behind two teams that the colts have beat, but the two losses are against teams that belong in a dumpster.

[Restinpeacesweetchloe]

I an fine with the Texans. How can KC still be that high when they have lost 3 out of 4 games.  As long as the team doesn’t have what the media thinks is a elite QB we won’t go up much. The two games that could raise us more is beating the Texans again or pulling out a win in NO.

[LockeDown]

They are scared to climb out on the Jacoby Brissett limb.

[CR91]

I seriously dont get why the media loves the texans so much. They cant even beat us in a meaningful game

[Restinpeacesweetchloe]

Herd had the colts at 9 last week and out this week after a win. He has the Texans at 6th. It’s all Watson being the QB. He still has KC at ten despite 3 out of 4 losses. The funny one is the cowboys being off of his top ten last week and this week they are 5 after having a bye. These power rankings really only look at which teams have stars.

[King Colt]

"Just win baby."

[coltsfeva]

Interesting how the write up includes a “suspect horse collar” penalty. Sounds a 

little bias to me. But given the ranking of the Colts by the writer all year, par for the course.

[IinD]

27 minutes ago, coltsfeva said:

Interesting how the write up includes a “suspect horse collar” penalty. Sounds a 

little bias to me. But given the ranking of the Colts by the writer all year, par for the course.

Everything we do will be lucky this year. It's sad really.

 

We could potentially have the franchise LITERALLY retire and still make the playoffs and it'll be seen as lucky.

[IinD]

59 minutes ago, CR91 said:

I seriously dont get why the media loves the texans so much. They cant even beat us in a meaningful game

The'exciting' QB. 

 

JB is very reserved. They like the Baker Mayfield types. 

 

They'd love us if we imploded.

[GoColts00]

So we beat the Texans and then beat the #4 Defense (Broncos) but the Texans are still ranked higher.. 

 

This is billboard material inside the Colts locker room or it's printed on the toilet paper. Maybe both

[Mr.Debonair]

I’m good with it. Offensively we’ve looked limited. Defense has been pretty good. We need start putting up points on offense 

[NannyMcafee]

2 hours ago, CR91 said:

I seriously dont get why the media loves the texans so much. They cant even beat us in a meaningful game

 

Yeah they were ready to jump on as soon as Watson started playing good. Safe to say texans are the AFC south media darlings. Crazy. Just crazy. 

[CR91]

1 hour ago, GoColts00 said:

So we beat the Texans and then beat the #4 Defense (Broncos) but the Texans are still ranked higher.. 

 

This is billboard material inside the Colts locker room or it's printed on the toilet paper. Maybe both

 

Im sure reich will. Something like we're the second seeded team in the conference, beaten teams people think are better then us and they still dont respect us

[HectorRoberts]

Yeah we were #32 last year so I take what they have to say with a grain of salt.

[TheMiz]

18 minutes ago, CR91 said:

 

Im sure reich will. Something like we're the second seeded team in the conference, beaten teams people think are better then us and they still dont respect us

But again, we've lost to two terrible teams...

[CR91]

14 minutes ago, TheMiz said:

But again, we've lost to two terrible teams...

 

Circumstances. Missed kicks in one and down 14 before we can even blink

[TheMiz]

1 hour ago, CR91 said:

 

Circumstances. Missed kicks in one and down 14 before we can even blink

I'm just saying, beat two good teams and lose to two terrible teams, it seems that being ranked right in the middle of the league seems about right .

[SteelCityColt]

13 hours ago, coltsfeva said:

Interesting how the write up includes a “suspect horse collar” penalty. Sounds a 

little bias to me. But given the ranking of the Colts by the writer all year, par for the course.

 

Somewhat unfair, as if you listen to more of his work he's generally quite pro-Colts. Not sure I agreed with the rankings themselves but that's the nature of these beasts. Power ranking have always been a bit of an exercise in futility IMO.

[lollygagger8]

[Myles]

Seems about right, but do you really care?

[aaron11]

three wins in a row against the texans, and colts have a better record playing several of the same teams

 

colts should clearly be ranked higher 

[Valpo2004]

You could justify having the Chiefs higher than us.  They where lacking their top receivers in that game and our corners where basically able to win man to man match-ups.  

 

They where also lacking some OL

 

Their top receiver has returned and if they get their OL back and Mahomes returns they could be a force.

 

Don't understand how the Texans get in ahead of us given that they where I believe fairly healthy and just lost JJ Watt for the season.  

[Jason_]

17 hours ago, coltsfeva said:

Interesting how the write up includes a “suspect horse collar” penalty. Sounds a 

little bias to me. But given the ranking of the Colts by the writer all year, par for the course.

 

honestly I thought that horsecollar penalty was kinda suspect myself.

[John Waylon]

The PFT one from yesterday summed us up pretty well:

 

Good enough to beat the good teams, but not good enough to not lose to the bad teams. 

[SteelCityColt]

4 minutes ago, John Waylon said:

The PFT one from yesterday summed us up pretty well:

 

Good enough to beat the good teams, but not good enough to not lose to the bad teams. 

 

I think that's a very good way to put it. Weirdly it feels like this has been a bug bear of the team for a while now, traversing different FOs and coaching staffs. 

[John Waylon]

1 minute ago, SteelCityColt said:

 

I think that's a very good way to put it. Weirdly it feels like this has been a bug bear of the team for a while now, traversing different FOs and coaching staffs. 

Yep. When I read it I went “Firm, but fair.”

[stitches]

17 hours ago, CR91 said:

I seriously dont get why the media loves the texans so much. They cant even beat us in a meaningful game

Because they have a good team with a franchise QB who is playing very well right now. Anything can happen in a single game. Just like the Raiders and Chargers beat us, even though we are probably better team than they are. 

[coltsfeva]

23 hours ago, John Waylon said:

The PFT one from yesterday summed us up pretty well:

 

Good enough to beat the good teams, but not good enough to not lose to the bad teams. 

  One thing to keep in mind is that the Colts are gaining experience for most of the young players and as a result are building depth and continuity.

  Most starters (including Brissett) are getting better but some aren’t playing as well as we’ve seen them play in the past.

  I do know we’ve seen individual players make incredible plays, across the board.

  I suspect we’ll see their position in these power polls fluctuate and hopefully rise steadily. But as many have said, it really means nothing.

[Four2itus]

We go into Pitt and walk out with a W....any kind of W....and that will change.