NFL Power Rankings Week 15: Focus on The Atlanta Falcons

December 16, 2010   ·   Rob Belote   ·   Jump to comments

Doing power rankings are tough, but because of the limited number of games on an NFL schedule, it's one of the only ways to get an idea for which teams are better than one another given factors other than just their records. 
At my site—www.GuysNation.com—I do a weekly power ranking of all 32 NFL teams.  It's a hugely subjective process in which I account for a team's strength of schedule, margin of victory, good wins and bad losses.
Where do the Atlanta Falcons currently rank?
They have a fairly good resume.  The Week 1 loss in Pittsburgh isn't too harmful to their cause, as it was the beginning of the year, and the game was played on the Steelers' home turf.  With the Steelers still firmly in the Top 10 all season (spending part of it in the Top 5), a narrow loss there actually looks decent on the record as one of the Falcons' two losses.
The other loss on the Falcons' record is also not terrible, as the Eagl...

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