Well the week come to close and it July 4th for those of us in the good ol USA. We finally finish off our NFL Power Rankings with training camp right around the corner. We appreciate our loyal members. Look for our next article after the weekend as we look back on past draft picks and where they are now. Lets finish this off.
32. Detroit Lions
31. Cleveland Browns
30. Kansas City Chiefs
29. St Louis Rams
28. Oakland Raiders
27. Cincinnati Bengals
26. San Francisco 49ers
25. Denver Broncos
24. Jacksonville Jaguars
23. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
22. Seattle Seahawks
21. Washington Redskins
20. Miami Dolphins
19. Buffalo Bills
18. NY Jets
17. Carolina Panthers
16. Minnesota Vikings
15. New Orleans Saints
14. Green Bay Packers
13. Houston Texans
12. Chicago Bears
11. Arizona Cardinals
10. Philadelphia Eagles
9. Atlanta Falcons
8. Dallas Cowboys
7. San Diego Chargers
6. Tennessee Titans
5. Indianapolis Colts
4. Baltimore Ravens
The Ravens were one game from the Super Bowl and trust me they will be thinking about that all season when they have to play the Steelers. If Joe Flacco can avoid the sophomore jinx the Ravens should do well. Willis McGahee and Todd Heap must pick up production after a less than stellar 2008 season. Ray Lewis is going to have to prove the Ravens made the right decision in resigning him and letting Bart Scott go. One concern will be the change at defensive coordinator and how that will effect the Ravens aggressiveness. Ed Reed will be on every team’s mind when they play Baltimore. This guy is great at baiting QB’s into making mistakes. The offense is really going to need to step up, they can’t constantly rely of the defense to keep them in games.
3. New York Giants
The Giants are not the same team with Plaxico Burress gone. Giants can stop fooling themselves too because Plaxico is not coming back. With the loss of Amani Toomer the Ginats don’t know who there No. 1 receiver will be. Right now that position will come down to Steve Smith or Hakeem Nicks. The signing in the offseason on defense of Michael Boley, Rocky Bernard, and Chris Canty will help the defense with there depth which was an issue last year. They have one of the strongest offensive lines and a great power running back. The Giants should make a great push into the playoffs.
2. New England Patriots
The Pats would be #1 if it wasn’t for Tom Brady. That is the big question mark. The Pats are good, real good. They proved that going 11-5 last year with Matt Cassell. Even though they missed the playoffs they should be ready to be back in the hunt this year. Tom Brasy still has his main targets Welker and Moss. The Pats went out and picked up Shawn Springs and Leigh Bodden for there secondary. The LB position is still a question mark as well as there pass rush. This should be an interesting year for the Pats.
1. Pittsburgh Steelers
They have everything in place to make another trip to the Super Bowl. They lost only two starters in the offseason. The Steelers offensive line must improve this year to keep from Ben taking so many hits. If the line steps up they will be the favorite to go back to the Super Bowl. Rashard Mendenhall returns and he is exactly the type of back the Steelers need. Defensively as long as Dick LeBeau sticks around the Steelers will always be a contender.
You can see our prior article here.
Update 2:45pm cst July 2nd:
You can download the complete overall ratings for each player here. If you need the complete detailed player ratings you can find them by team here.
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Chicago Bears
Green Bay Packers
Detroit Lions
Minnesota Vikings
New Orleans Saints
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Carolina Panthers
Atlanta Falcons
Arizona Cardinals
Seattle Seahawks
San Francisco 49ers
St. Louis Rams
Philadelphia Eagles
NY Giants
Washington Redskins
Dallas Cowboys
This week in the GameStop Blog they have guest columnist Ian Cummings talking about ‘tipped passes at the line’ being improved within Madden NFL 10.
That brings me to this seemingly small addition, “Tipped Passes at the line”. On its own, this may sound like a lower-priority improvement (I thought so, too, initially), but in reality, this one addition has added a wealth of strategy, drama and fun to the game that was missing before. How did we do it? Well, it’s simple enough… the very first thing we did was add some intelligent logic for defenders to put their hands up to try and bat down passes. When we put this in initially as a prototype, nearly every pass got batted down at the line. D’oh! So we went scouring through NFL footage to find some more accurate percentages of how many passes are tipped, who does the tipping and when it happens, so we could tune our numbers more realistically. Then we also decided to tie the likelihood (and accuracy) of the bat-down to the Awareness rating of the defensive lineman.
I really enjoy that they are trying to make the game so much more realistic. At the same time though you have to wonder how many more glitches will come with it. Unfortunately that’s the way of gaming.
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