Arizona Cardinals Power Rankings Wild Card Edition
By Erich Becker
Even with a down, blow-out game, the Arizona Cardinals could remain atop our rankings in the playoffs
The Arizona Cardinals laid an egg on Sunday, but was it by design? When the Cardinals and the Packers played in Week 17 of the 2009 season, knowing that the next week they’d play again in the playoffs, the Cardinals played so generic and “meh” that it was just assumed this was along the same lines.
Seattle fans will scream that they beat the team that beat them at home, and they have a right to do that, maybe the Cardinals are just making excuses, maybe not, either way, the second seed was locked in a week ago, and a bye was a given, why push yourselves for nothing when Tampa Bay was being throttled by the only team you needed to lose?
Elsewhere, the J-E-T-S choked themselves out of the playoffs and let the Steelers in who will play the Bengals in a Wild Card match-up, New England fell from grace with a loss to Miami and the Broncos and some guy named Manning came in to clean up the mess that was the top of the AFC and took the house at the top of the hill for themselves.
Then the teams no one wants to talk about, the Chiefs, the Texans and the Redskins, could one of them make a run for it?
Only time will tell! So, without further ceremony, the Wild Card Power Rankings for all 12 teams who were the elite in the league in 2015.
team. 49. The Packers have to be a little worried the way the offense have played the last two weeks, and by played, I mean, done nothing. For the last seven and a half quarters the team has been unable to really score and Aaron Rodgers has made some bad mistakes (like a pick in the end zone for the game tying score). The Redskins will give them a run for it.. (10-6). Previous: 11th. Green Bay Packers. 12
(9-7). Previous: 13th. Houston Texans. 11. team. 10. The Texans are another team that were left for dead a few weeks ago when no one wanted to win the AFC South and now they’re clicking at the right time, with Brandon Weedon as quarterback. Can they go far, or is it one-and-done in the AFC?
60. The Vikings may have won the North, but now they set themselves up for a meeting with Seattle in the frigid cold, in the early hours of the day and that may be the only thing they have going for them from a match-up standpoint. It may be enough, but this wont’ be an easy game.. (11-5). Previous: 10th. Minnesota Vikings. 9. team
56. The Bengals did what they had to do to get in, stay alive, and nearly get a bye which would have given them an extra week to get QB Andy Dalton back, but now they face a short week and a match-up with their division rivals in the Steelers. This won’t be easy for a team who was having a magical season only a few weeks ago.. (12-4). Previous: 6th. Cincinnati Bengals. 8. team