Atlanta Falcons: NFC Power Rankings, Week 11

Dallas is playing the worst football of any team in the NFC in the last two months. Since losing QB Tony Romo in Week 2, the Cowboys have yet to win a ball game, dropping seven straight. Even though the NFC East leading New York Football Giants sit at .500, it would take a near miracle for Dallas to win the division at this point.

Since 2015 is clearly a wash in Big D, it would make sense for this team to not play Romo at all this season and see just how bad it gets. Who would have though that the Dallas Cowboys could have been the first team on the clock in the 2016 NFL Draft? I thought this team could go 13-3 and win a Super Bowl!

The Detroit Lions did something that hasn’t happened since 1991: beat Green Bay at Lambeau Field. When your team accomplishes a feat that hasn’t happened in the Internet Era, it should receive some sort of award. Congratulations, Detroit! You are officially not the worst team in the NFC anymore.

That being said, this is still the worst offensive line in football, the coaching staff is in disarray and all three teams in your division are clearly better than you. But on any given Sunday, well…you can beat a Packers team that looks shockingly bad in recent weeks. The Lions might win 4 games this year.

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San Francisco stays put at 14th as they didn’t play in Week 10 because of their bye. They can still feel good about themselves with the 1-0 start to the Blaine Gabbert Era after beating the Atlanta Falcons by a point in Week 10. Their defense is starting to make the turn to okay in the back half of the season.

However, to say that the 49ers have a serious shot at the playoffs seems too unrealistic in 2015. They would need the Atlanta Falcons to go 2-5 or worse and finish the season 5-2 or better to use their tiebreaker over Atlanta to get the 6-seed.

The New Orleans Saints find themselves in the bottom tier this week for two reasons: they have six losses in ten weeks and their defense is terrible. Is Rob Ryan still the defensive coordinator? Do they Saints even know? Does anybody know?

Drew Brees can continue to heave the football vertically to try to win shootouts, but two awful picks in the last two weeks have cost the Saints both games against the Tennessee Titans and the Washington Redskins. New Orleans enters their Week 11 bye still in the playoff mix, but barely. They really need both Atlanta and Green Bay to slide, plus play better themselves if they want to sniff the postseason in 2015.

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