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Recently the Thursday night and Monday night games in the NFL have been giving fans quite a show. This week the Jets took down the Patriots in a battle for the AFC East in a classic example of great, fun, edge of your seat football. On Monday night The Browns beat the flailing Bills on a 56 yard field goal by Phil Dawson. The Browns need this nail biting win to help them claw back into the playoff picture. The AFC East has become very muddied with all four teams seperated by just two games. How will these great games affect their position in the barometer this week?
After each week of the NFL season, several active Cafe members get together and rank the 32 NFL teams from first to worst. The Barometer is an average of the rankings submitted by these members. To maintain consistency, the high and low scores have been removed.
| Rank | Change | TEAM | Avg Rank | h o o k | 4 P a c k | M a d 9 1 1 | C o u g s | A m u k |
1 (2) |  | NY Giants | 1.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| “Brandon Jacobs said I have to write that he’s the shizzle or he’ll stiffarm me. Brandon Jacobs is the shizzle.” – Kilroy | ||||||||
| 2 (1) |  | Tennessee | 2.0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| “Either I was drunk, he was, or we both were, because I could swear I saw Kerry Collins throw three touchdown passes against Jacksonville.” – Kilroy | ||||||||
| 3 (5) | | Pittsburgh | 3.3 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 4 | 3 |
| “11-10? Could’ve sworn the World Series ended a few weeks ago.” – steelersfan513 | ||||||||
| “My pal Benny “Icepick” Gambini says that upon further review that replay official is going to need new kneecaps” – Kilroy | ||||||||
| 4 (3) | | Carolina | 4.0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| “Don’t get too carried away Panthers fans. My grandma had 77 yards on 12 carries against Detroit… and she’s dead.”- Kilroy | ||||||||
| 5 (7) | | Tampa Bay | 5.3 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 8 |
| “The Buccaneers didn’t so much win Sunday as they didn’t want to lose as badly as Minnesota did.” – Kilroy | ||||||||
| 6 (8) | | Indianapolis | 6.3 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 7 |
| “In an effort to make himself even more marketable Peyton Manning is renting out advertising space on his forehead. IMAX will be the first client.” – Kilroy | ||||||||
| 7 (9) | | Arizona | 7.3 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 6 |
| “If the Cardinals clinch the NFC West Sunday by beating the Giants then I’d suggest we all start building Arks.” – Kilroy | ||||||||
| 8 (4) | | Washington | 9.0 | 9 | 9 | 15 | 8 | 9 |
| “Jim Zorn may have exaggerated Clinton Portis’ injury. A man in power in DC lied. Who’d have thunk it?” – Kilroy | ||||||||
| 9 (13) | | NY Jets | 9.0 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 16 |
| “Rumor has it the Jets have a secret weapon for dealing with LenDale White…salad.” – Kilroy | ||||||||
| 10 (17) | | Dallas | 11.3 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 14 | 18 |
| “After Jessica Simpson offered to kiss Tony Romo’s broken finger and make it better he immediately suffered a groin pull.” – Kilroy | ||||||||
| 11 (18) | | Denver | 12.0 | 11 | 17 | 10 | 13 | 12 |
| “I think the Broncos starting tailback delivered my pizza last week.” – Kilroy | ||||||||
| 12 (6) | | Philadelphia | 12.7 | 16 | 11 | 11 | 17 | 4 |
| “So Andy, lemme get this straight. You’re playing a team who can’t stop the run and your QB’s completion percentage was south of 50% the week before so you call 146 passing plays? Nice tie Fat Boy.” – Kilroy | ||||||||
| 13 (19) | | Green Bay | 13.0 | 10 | 14 | 9 | 15 | 17 |
| “The Packers dismantled the Bears last week. On a related note, cheese is tasty” – Kilroy | ||||||||
| 14 (10) | | New England | 13.3 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 11 | 13 |
| “For a split second I half expected Bill Belicheck to go Last Boy Scout on Mangini at the end the Jets-Pats game.” – Kilroy | ||||||||
| 15 (14) | | Atlanta | 13.3 | 22 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 15 |
| “Way to go Falcons. You just cost Mike Vick 2 Cartons of Pall Malls” – Kilroy | ||||||||
| 16 (12) | | Baltimore | 14.0 | 17 | 16 | 16 | 9 | 10 |
| “Ravens, meet Buzzsaw. Buzzsaw, Ravens.” – Kilroy | ||||||||
| 17 (15) | | New Orleans | 14.0 | 15 | 10 | 19 | 16 | 11 |
| “Problem with Saints is that while they can score at will they give up more points than the Hornets.” – Kilroy | ||||||||
| 18 (11) | | San Diego | 16.3 | 13 | 18 | 17 | 18 | 14 |
| “The Padres could have pulled it out but the 7th Inning double play Rivers hit into killed them.” – Kilroy | ||||||||
| 19 (20) | | Chicago | 19.7 | 18 | 20 | 23 | 20 | 19 |
| “The Bears employed a new defensive formation last week. ‘The Matador.’ Ole!” – Kilroy | ||||||||
| 20 (22) | | Miami | 20.3 | 21 | 21 | 13 | 19 | 21 |
| “I can’t shake the feeling that all these wacky formations are a result of Sparano playing Madden all night after finding Ricky Williams’ Brownies.” – Kilroy | ||||||||
| 21 (16) | | Buffalo | 20.7 | 20 | 19 | 20 | 23 | 22 |
| “Trent, you see those guys on the outside of the formation? They’re called Wide Receivers.” – Kilroy | ||||||||
| 22 (21) | | Minnesota | 20.7 | 19 | 22 | 21 | 21 | 20 |
| “When Mike Tice can make fun of your team’s coaching decisions something has gone horribly, horribly wrong.” – Kilroy | ||||||||
| 23 (23) |  | Jacksonville | 23.0 | 23 | 25 | 22 | 22 | 24 |
| “If Del Rio’s going to demote people for poor performance ala Mike Peterson then why isn’t he parking cars outside the stadium?” – Kilroy | ||||||||
| 24 (24) | | Houston | 24.0 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 25 | 23 |
| “The Bad News is Matt Scahub may be out another month. The good news is that Sage Rosenfels will be able to….never mind.” – Kilroy | ||||||||
| 25 (25) | | Cleveland | 24.7 | 26 | 23 | 25 | 24 | 25 |
| “News reports have surfaced that Brady Quinn has a fracture on the tip of his index finger. Jessica Simpson’s agent was unavailable for comment.” – Kilroy | ||||||||
| 26 (27) | | San Francisco | 26.0 | 25 | 26 | 26 | 26 | 26 |
| “Following the 49ers victory Mike Singletary happily returned Shaun Hill’s 6 week-old puppy, which Singletary had ‘borrowed’ for ‘motivational purposes’” – Kilroy | ||||||||
| 27 (26) | | Seattle | 27.0 | 27 | 37 | 27 | 27 | 27 |
| “How is that first-round tight end with the dropsies and the overrated pass blocking supposed to help your offense again?” – WaCougMBS | ||||||||
| 28 (29) | | Kansas City | 28.7 | 29 | 28 | 28 | 29 | 31 |
| “Larry Johnson has denied that, infuriated after week’s loss, he spit Gatorade in the faces of and threatened to kill 3 Cub Scouts and a nun.” – Kilroy | ||||||||
| 29 (31) | | Cincinnati | 29.0 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 30 | 28 |
| “Chad Ocho Cinco apparently thought the best way to celebrate a tie was by unveiling his TO impersonation.” – Kilroy | ||||||||
| 30 (28) | | St. Louis | 29.7 | 30 | 30 | 29 | 28 | 30 |
| “Steven Jackson’s strained fallopian tube will keep him sidelined another week, and now Orlando Pace is out as well. If I was Marc Bulger I’d hit myself in the head with a bat and spare the Bears the trouble of concussing me.” – Kilroy | ||||||||
| 31 (30) | | Oakland | 31.0 | 31 | 31 | 31 | 31 | 29 |
| “Jim Fassel sent a hand-written letter to Al Davis professing his desire to coach the Raiders. The Fassel family has begun committment proceedings.” – Kilroy | ||||||||
| 32 (32) | | Detroit | 32.0 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 | 32 |
| “Adding insult to injury the Lions were recently denied entrance into the Mid-America Conference for failure to meet minimum competitive standards.” – Kilroy | ||||||||
| Legend:
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Thanks to everyone who helped make these rankings happen! Especially Kilroy who had a ton of blurbs to put in here again this week. If you would like to help with the rankings and give your own input as to where teams should be ranked you can do so here each week!
Scott is one of the growing number of fantasy experts who writes for the Cafe. He has been playing fantasy football since 1992 and and is now a hardcore fantasy football addict who lives at the Cafe. Seriously, he has a cot in back. You can find Scott posting in the Cafe forums as treat24.
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