In each tier, the teams aren’t ranked.
The contenders
- Kansas City Chiefs
The good
- Baltimore Raven
- Pittsburgh Steelers
- New Orleans Saints
- Green Bay Packers
- Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- Miami Dolphins
The above average
- Arizona Cardinals
- Seattle Seahawks
- Los Angles Rams
- San Francisco 49ers
- Buffalo Bills
- Indianapolis Colts
- Tennessee Titans
The average
- Carolina Panthers
- Los Vegas Raiders
- Cleveland Browns
- New England Patriots
The below average
- Cincinnati Bengals
- Minnesota Vikings
- Chicago Bears
- Detroit Lions
- Denver Broncos
- Los Angles Chargers
- Atlanta Falcons
The bad
- New York Giants
- Philadelphia Eagles
- Washington Redskins
- Dallas Cowboys
- Jacksonville Jaguars
- Houston Texans
2017 Cleveland Browns bad
- New York Jets
Explanations
- I had to drop Seattle a tier. They just don’t have enough around Russel Westbrook to justify them being in the Good tier.
- Tennessee started the year 5-0 with a +38 point differential but outside a 26 point blowout of Buffalo they only had a +12 point differential against Denver, Jacksonville, Minnesota, and Houston. They were barley getting by bad teams and it’s caught up to them in the last 4 weeks.
- I’m very close to moving up Arizona up a tier.
- Atlanta has always been a good bad team. 4 of their first seven loses were by less than 7– including a last second touchdown pass by Detroit. Yes, they have won 3 of their last four. I think they might have turned a corner.