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NFL Power Rankings, Week 9: Cardinals And Titans Soar, While Ravens Jump Back Into Top 5 

Every seven day stretch of the NFL season, The Baltimore Sun will rank each of the 32 NFL groups. The rankings will consider week after week execution, however how well each group has the right stuff as Super Bowl competitors, paying little heed to win-misfortune record. 메이저사이트

Here are the rankings after Week 9: 

The competitors 

1. Arizona Cardinals (8-1; No. 6 last week) 

2. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (6-2; No. 2) 

3. Tennessee Titans (7-2, No. 8) 

4. Green Bay Packers (7-2; No. 1) 

5. Baltimore Ravens (6-2; No. 7) 

6. Dallas Cowboys (6-2; No. 4) 

7. Los Angeles Rams (7-2; No. 5) 

Tennessee Titans quarterback Ryan Tannehill (17) hollers directions at the line of scrimmage during a game against the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday in Inglewood, California. (Kyusung Gong/AP) 

Subsequent to ruling a division rival without its beginning quarterback and top wide beneficiary, the Cardinals leap to the highest point of the rankings this week. With Most Valuable Player competitor Kyler Murray and star DeAndre Hopkins sidelined, Arizona walloped the 49ers, 31-17, behind veteran Colt McCoy and running back James Conner. There probably won't be a more noteworthy success in the NFL this season, a pleasant plume in Kliff Kingsbury's cap as he constructs his staggering mentor of the year appointment. Try not to neglect the Cardinals' protection, either, which fired Jimmy Garoppolo multiple times and constrained three turnovers. This hot beginning can presently don't be viewed as an accident. Arizona is a real Super Bowl competitor. 

There's a similarly astonishing big enchilada in the AFC. The Titans were viewed as a reasonable season finisher group heading into the season, yet after a 2-2 beginning that incorporated a misfortune to the Jets, maybe they wouldn't have been more than first-round grub. From that point forward, the Titans have won five straight, including prevails upon the Bills, Chiefs and Rams. Seven days subsequent to losing star running back Derrick Henry for the season, Tennessee moved to a 28-16 assertion triumph over Los Angeles, firing Matthew Stafford multiple times and taking him out twice. The auxiliary, a normal flimsy point entering the season, has been remarkable, and Jeffery Simmons has bloomed into one of the most troublesome guarded linemen in the association. The Titans aren't as alarming without Henry in the backfield, yet quarterback Ryan Tannehill and collectors A.J. Brown and Julio Jones may be sufficient to lead a profound season finisher run in a totally open AFC. 

They'll need to get past their old adversary the Ravens, obviously. Behind Lamar Jackson, Baltimore mobilized from a twofold digit second-half deficiency for the third time this season to beat the Vikings in additional time, 34-31. As indicated by ESPN, the remainder of the NFL is 8-93 this year when following by twofold digits in the subsequent half. A sporadic safeguard and wounds on the two sides of the ball have held this group back from arriving at the statures of its prevailing 2019 season, yet Jackson allows the Ravens an opportunity to win each week with his arm and his legs. With other AFC competitors slipping, there's a way for Baltimore to at long last overcome the challenge in the postseason. 

"At the point when you watch them (Dolphins) and watch the tape, they run their offense, however it's a little unique variety with the two quarterbacks," said Harbaugh. 

In a bizarre seven day stretch of results around the association, it's absurd to add an excessive amount to the Packers' 13-7 misfortune to the Chiefs and the Cowboys' 30-16 loss to the Broncos. Green Bay had to play second-year quarterback Jordan Love with Aaron Rodgers sidelined by COVID, and the offense typically battled behind the 2020 first-round pick. Dallas, in the mean time, fell behind 30-0 on account of a uniquely terrible showing from Dak Prescott, who had under 100 yards and one block attempt in the final quarter prior to piling up some trash time details. It was an awful week for Prescott and Co., yet the quarterback doesn't appear to be concerned. "I trust groups play us like this for the remainder of the period, truth be told," he said when inquired as to whether the Broncos gave the remainder of the association an outline to beat the Cowboys. At the point when Rodgers and Prescott are sound and playing admirably, these groups are among the most incredible in the NFC. 

On the cusp of dispute 

8. Wild ox Bills (5-3; No. 3) 

9. Kansas City Chiefs (5-4; No. 12) 

10. New England Patriots (5-4; No. 15) 

11. Los Angeles Chargers (5-3; No. 13) 

12. Pittsburgh Steelers (5-3; No. 14) 

There's very little to say about the Bills' 9-6 misfortune to the Jaguars, other than it was unforgivable. Jacksonville edge rusher Josh Allen fired, caught and recuperated a mishandle from Bills quarterback Josh Allen, which not just prompted an extraordinary piece of random data yet the Jaguars' first success on U.S. Soil under mentor Urban Meyer (they beat the Dolphins in London). Quarterback Josh Allen said he and his group played appallingly, to be pleasant, and that with regards to summarizes it. Yet, there are notice signs here for a group that has battled on offense for back to back weeks and just leads its division by a half-game subsequent to running to a 4-1 beginning. 

Green Bay Packers security Adrian Amos (31) and free wellbeing Darnell Savage (26) tackle Chiefs running back Darrel Williams (31) on Sunday in Kansas City, Missouri. (Peter Aiken/AP) 

The Chiefs, who the Bills squashed 38-20 back in Week 5, have move back over .500, however there's as yet something off with this group. Quarterback Patrick Mahomes is as yet battling to push the ball downfield, making due with 4.5 yards per endeavor in Sunday's success over the Packers. Regardless of whether it's an absence of concentration, a secret physical issue or something different, Mahomes simply isn't playing at his standard MVP level. No one needs to play the Chiefs come January, yet going on like this, against one of the hardest excess timetables in the association, it's no assurance Kansas City even makes the end of the season games. 

That may air out the entryway for the Patriots, Chargers and Steelers. New England has won four of its beyond five since losing to old companion Tom Brady, putting Bill Belichick and Co. Soundly back in the chase after both the AFC East title and the trump card. The Chargers partook in an uncommon piece of best of luck in exceptional groups Sunday, getting a match dominating field objective from recently marked kicker Dustin Hopkins to beat the Eagles, 27-24, after a proficient presentation from Justin Herbert. The Steelers beat the Bears, 29-27, on a late field objective subsequent to blowing a 20-6 final quarter lead Monday night, keeping themselves in dispute. 

The special cases 

13. Cleveland Browns (5-4; No. 16) 

14. Las Vegas Raiders (5-3; No. 9) 

15. Denver Broncos (5-4; No. 18) 

16. New Orleans Saints (5-3; No. 11) 

17. Cincinnati Bengals (5-4; No. 10) 

Cleveland Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield (6) hopes to pass during a game against the Bengals on Sunday in Cincinnati. (Emilee Chinn/AP) 

With everyone's eyes on Baker Mayfield after the Browns' untidy separation from wide beneficiary Odell Beckham Jr., the quarterback conveyed one his most impressive showings of the period. Mayfield tossed for 218 yards and two scores, including a 60-yard bomb to Donovan Peoples-Jones, to lift Cleveland to a soothing 41-16 defeat of the Bengals. However energizing as the success might have been for Mayfield devotees, it was similarly frustrating for Cincinnati fans. Sunday's victory misfortune and last week's shocking loss to the Jets have deleted all the generosity mentor Zac Taylor procured from a 5-2 begin and a prevailing once again the Ravens. The Bengals are irrefutably better this season, yet a frustrating stretch from Joe Burrow and the protection has quickly recalibrated assumptions from darkhorse AFC North victor to rough season finisher competitor. 

That AFC race will be tight if the Raiders and Broncos have anything to say about it. In the wake of exchanging star pass rusher Von Miller to the Rams, Denver appeared to be raising the white banner. All things being equal, quarterback Teddy Bridgewater and a predominant running match-up arranged a major success over the Cowboys that pushed the Broncos more than .500. The Raiders experienced a baffling 23-16 misfortune to the Giants, yet you can excuse them for not playing their best after previous wide collector Henry Ruggs III was accused of DUI bringing about death. The Las Vegas offense is still among the association's ideal and just included wide beneficiary DeSean Jackson. If the Raiders beat the Chiefs on Sunday night, we'll know they're a genuine competitor. 

The muddled center 

18. Indianapolis Colts (4-5; No. 22) 

19. Atlanta Falcons (4-4; No. 24) 

20. Minnesota Vikings (3-5; No. 19) 

21. Seattle Seahawks (3-5; No. 23) 

22. Philadelphia Eagles (3-6; No. 25) 

23. Carolina Panthers (4-5; No. 20) 

24. New York Giants (3-6; No. 26) 

25. San Francisco 49ers (3-5; No. 17) 

26. Chicago Bears (3-6; No. 21) 

Subsequent to beginning the season a joined 2-6, the Colts and Falcons have ripped at once more into the chase, however it hasn't been pretty. Indianapolis got it done against the Jets on Thursday night, 45-30, notwithstanding surrendering 317 yards and three scores to Josh Johnson, while the Falcons beat the Saints, 27-25, in the wake of blowing a 24-6 lead in the final quarter. Neither one of the groups is turning out to be a season finisher danger, yet there is something particularly valuable about turning a season around after a helpless beginning. 

New York Jets guarded lineman John Franklin-Myers (91) handles Colts quarterback Carson Wentz (2) during a game Thursday in Indianapolis. (Zach Bolinger/AP) 

That makes what's going on in Minnesota, Carolina and San Francisco all the really frustrating. Neither one of the groups was viewed as a lock to make the end of the season games entering the year, yet their lists are unreasonably gifted to be sitting underneath .500. The 49ers specifically have some intense inquiries to respond to about mentor Kyle Shanahan, who has gone 9-15 since arriving at the Super Bowl toward the finish of the 2019 season. The group owes it to Shanahan to at minimum get an entire year with No. 3 in general draft get Trey Lance subsequent to exchanging for the capable double danger quarterback, yet at the same this