NFL Power Rankings Week 12: Focus on the Oakland Raiders

November 25, 2010   ·   Rob Belote   ·   Jump to comments

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 try to account for a team's strength of schedule, margin of victory, good wins and bad losses.
Where do the Oakland Raiders currently rank?
I'll admit it, I was starting to buy into the Oakland Raiders.  Leading into their bye week, they were on a good three-game streak.  They got a HUGE victory in lopsided fashion against the Broncos in Denver.  They followed that up by getting another lopsided win, this time while hosting the Seahawks.  Their Week 9 victory over the Chiefs wasn't by a large margin, but the Chiefs are a good team.
Following the bye week, I had hoped they would show up better than this against the Pittsburgh Steelers...
but they didn't. 
The Steelers are a top-tier team, so I can't blame many teams for losing to them, especially when the game is played in Pennsylvania, but I had ...

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