Exactly one half of all football games have been played. The Colts and Saints will make the playoffs. Are we sure about anybody else?

I didn't have room to expand on this in the rankings below, but these two coaching decisions need to be addressed:

1) The Giants should not have kicked that field goal against the Chargers. If they go for the touchdown and make it, they win. If they go for the touchdown and miss, then the Chargers have to go the length of the field. Yes, they can kick a field goal and tie it, but that is a better outcome than what actually happened. Kicking the field goal was the safe but wrong choice. The Giants have been making alot of wrong choices lately.

2) But that wasn't even the worst field goal decision in the NFC East this week. What was Andy Reid thinking? A 52 yard field goal is hardly a sure thing, and then they were still down by 4! Who cares that its 4th and 11: victory favors the bold. Reid was doing what he thought would cover himself with the media, NOT what would give his team the best chance to win.

Enough bickering over minutiae: on to the ranks!

Rank (LW)	Team	Record	Comments
1 (1)		8-0	The 8-0 Saints still have yet to play a difficult road game.
2 (2)		8-0	I guess their logo is a horseshoe for a reason; that was a lucky, lucky win against Houston.
3 (3)		6-2	New England needs to win in Indianapolis, not only to give them a shot at home field for the playoffs, but to protect their record as the only 16-0 team in NFL history.
4 (5)		6-2	The Bengals are about to go on a 3 game road trip, just in time to derail all those "The Bengals are for real!" stories.
5 (4)		7-1	Doesn't the Viking mascot look like he could be one of the Village People?

6 (6)		6-2	Not quite a bold prediction: The Steelers will beat the Bengals this Sunday to take back control of the AFC North.
7 (8)		6-2	Wake me up when they win a game in December.
8 (13)		5-3	The Falcons might be the only team left that can keep the Saints from running the table this season.
9 (17)		5-3	Kurt Warner was 22/32 with 5 touchdowns. Matt Leinert was 0/1 with 1 interception.
10 (14)		5-3	I don't mean this to say I regret the trade, because we won a Super bowl with Eli, but: Philip Rivers would have handled the New York spotlight pretty brilliantly.
11 (9)		5-4	The Texans are 0-3 in games where a running back fumbles at the goal line. It is not surprising that they have lost those games, but it is surprising that it has already happened 3 times.
12 (10)		5-3	I keep hearing about how bad unemployment is, but somehow Andy Reid still has a job.
13 (11)		4-4	BOLD PREDICTION ALERT: The Ravens are not making the playoffs this year.
14 (7)		6-2	Since my bold prediction about the Broncos being the first team to secure a playoff spot, they are 0-2 while the Chargers are 2-0.
15 (15)		3-5	Best 3-5 team in the history of the NFL?
16 (16)		3-5	The 49ers are now 0-4 since Michael Crabtree ended his holdout. I'm going to continue bringing this up until they win or there is something else more interesting to talk about with the 49ers.
17 (18)		5-4	When the Chargers got the ball back down by 6 with 2 minutes to go, I was sure that the Giants were going to lose. That is not a good feeling.
18 (19)		4-4	The collapse in this defense must be due to more than the loss of Brian Urlacher, right?
19 (17)		4-4	Aaron Rodgers: overrated, super overrated, or the most overrated ever? He takes more sacks then the Bunny Ranch.
20 (20)		4-4	Whooooosh!
21 (21)		3-5	In the first half, Carolina scored 17 points while calling 19 rushes and 6 passes. In the second half, Carolina scored 3 points while calling 20 rushes and 24 passes.
22 (23)		3-5	The Seahawks erased the biggest deficit in team history in coming back to win over the Lions (and to save my suicide pool).
23 (22)		4-4	If the Panther and the Jaguar got in a fight, who would win? And would anybody in Jacksonville care?
24 (27)		2-6	The success of Vince Young is also a condemnation of Jeff Fisher for waiting until his team was 0-6 to make a change.
25 (24)		3-5	Is the buffalo getting shot with a laser? Does he have an iron beam sticking out of his head?
26 (25)		2-6	This will blow your mind: the Raiders wear this crest on the side of the helmet. Does the Raider IN the crest also have the crest on the side of HIS helmet? And so on into infinity? Recursive logo!
27 (26)		1-7	I guess now we know why Bill Belichick didn't get what many perceived as fair value back for Matt Cassel: he actually thought he was getting a good deal for the garbage he was selling.
28 (28)		1-7	Why so angry, Ram? Oh, right. Nevermind.
29 (32)		1-7	The Josh Freeman era begins!
30 (29)		1-7	If Cleveland is the Mistake by the Lake, then Eric Mangini is the Clown running the Browns. *high fives himself*
31 (30)		1-7	The Lion may look vicious, but he still doesn't have any claws.
32 (31)		2-6	Deion Sanders making fun of Clinton Portis for getting a concussion is the latest classy move by a classy, classy guy. Super classy.