Dr. Z's initial power rankings

by Chickadee on Sep 3, 2008 12:44 PM PDT

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/dr_z/09/03/week.1/index.html?eref=T1

Sure, the seahawks are at 11, whatever, we could talk about all those medai drags we put up with. What I want to note is our devision rivals. 27, 28, 29 cards, niners, rams. That's pretty rough. Take a look at the list and tell me where YOU think they belong. I need eight more words, apparrently, for this.

0 recs | Comment 39 comments

Story-email Email Printer Print

Comments

Personally, I think it was lacking more than just eight words.

But this guy’s rankings look somewhat off. Vikings that high? I don’t know; early season power rankings seem silly to me since so much is unknown at this point and will chance in the first few weeks.

by Matthew on Sep 3, 2008 12:52 PM PDT 0 recs

Last night some dude on NFL Live said the vikings were going to be in the NFC championship game

Coach Owens = No Fun Zone

by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 3, 2008 12:53 PM PDT up 0 recs

I prefer my football analysis to be grounded in reality.

by BrianL on Sep 3, 2008 12:56 PM PDT up 0 recs

vikings could definitely play for the championship

if tarvaris jackson doesn’t screw it up for them. they probably have the best dline in the league, one of the best olines and 2 very good running backs. they’ll be hard to beat every week.

by bitterguy on Sep 3, 2008 1:14 PM PDT up 0 recs

Tavaris Jackson will screw it up for them.

Coach Owens = No Fun Zone

by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 3, 2008 1:23 PM PDT up 0 recs

Tavaris Jackson is bad

And so are their receivers and secondary.

by OlSalty on Sep 3, 2008 10:42 PM PDT up 0 recs

Bernard Berrian ain't bad.

by redwolf75 on Sep 4, 2008 1:22 PM PDT up 0 recs

He likes the Vikings to win the super bowl

he wrote about it a month or so ago. They’re kind of his darling team this year I guess.

by Nate Dogg on Sep 3, 2008 4:15 PM PDT up 0 recs

Here we go.

Capitalize the team names.
Spell check.
Use the link button.
Take a second to correct the formatting.

by John Morgan on Sep 3, 2008 1:19 PM PDT 0 recs

And if your going to do ranking posts.

Include more sites. ESPN, Yahoo Sports, CBSsportsline all have there rankings. So we can at least compare.

Coach Owens = No Fun Zone

by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 3, 2008 1:22 PM PDT up 0 recs

What's our take on the 75 word minimum?

by BrianL on Sep 3, 2008 1:33 PM PDT up 0 recs

Personally

If its valuable info/breaking news/good debate topic then I don’t care how many words you use. But if its the Sportsline Puts Wrong logo post. Write something more.

Coach Owens = No Fun Zone

by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 3, 2008 1:40 PM PDT up 0 recs

Breaking news stuff is acceptable, I think Jeff/Matthew/Graham have the same exception over at LL.

Debate topic should have at least 75 words in my mind, at least enough to direct a clear path of discussion.

by BrianL on Sep 3, 2008 1:41 PM PDT up 0 recs

I think the Sportsline logo thing would have been better off as a fanshot.

by BrianL on Sep 3, 2008 1:44 PM PDT up 0 recs

Yes

Coach Owens = No Fun Zone

by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 3, 2008 1:44 PM PDT up 0 recs

I wholeheartedly support your efforts on this front.

by Matthew on Sep 3, 2008 1:35 PM PDT up 0 recs

As do I.

As such, I bestow upon this blog a wonderful gift that I hope will be used by Mr. Morgan and Scruffy Lefty judiciously.

by BrianL on Sep 3, 2008 1:40 PM PDT up 0 recs

So lets make sure I get this right

When the Shift key is applied. Then logical discussion must follow in the subthread bellow?

Coach Owens = No Fun Zone

by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 3, 2008 1:44 PM PDT up 0 recs

It's a marvelous concept, isn't it?

by BrianL on Sep 3, 2008 1:45 PM PDT up 0 recs

Yes it is

Coach Owens = No Fun Zone

by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 3, 2008 1:47 PM PDT up 0 recs

The Chad Jackson FanPost

is a good example of what a shorter FanPost should be.

Coach Owens = No Fun Zone

by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 3, 2008 1:46 PM PDT up 0 recs

Damn SBN 2.0

This should be up more

Coach Owens = No Fun Zone

by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 3, 2008 1:47 PM PDT up 0 recs

That's a part of the auto-update feature I don't like.

I hate it when my screen jumps when I click reply.

by BrianL on Sep 3, 2008 1:47 PM PDT up 0 recs

Or when its says your posting and your not

Coach Owens = No Fun Zone

by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 3, 2008 1:48 PM PDT up 0 recs

For all the things SBN 2.0 does right, it does some things very, very, very wrong.

by BrianL on Sep 3, 2008 1:49 PM PDT up 0 recs

Yeah

Please don’t take my bitching about certain posters the wrong way. You and Scruffy do a fantastic job here and I just hate to see the overall tone of the site being brought down.

by Robert on Sep 3, 2008 1:51 PM PDT up 0 recs

Here we go

For comparison

CBS SportsLine

ESPN

Fox Sports

by Justise on Sep 3, 2008 1:38 PM PDT 0 recs

One more

Seahawks.NET rankings

by Justise on Sep 3, 2008 1:45 PM PDT 0 recs

I will say this line is classic

All they do is win division titles and games. The key here is keeping Matt Hasselbeck on the field since he has back issues. The receiving situation isn’t good.

Coach Owens = No Fun Zone

by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 3, 2008 1:50 PM PDT 0 recs

God dammit that's all we do.

Good teams miss the playoffs every other season.

by BrianL on Sep 3, 2008 1:52 PM PDT up 0 recs

and I'll add a /sarcasm tag in case that wasn't clear.

by BrianL on Sep 3, 2008 1:52 PM PDT up 0 recs

Hit the panic button

The receiving situation isn’t good

Sweet Jesus some guy that knows nothing about this team doesn’t like how many 6th round draft picks from Auburn this team has at WR. Were boned.

Coach Owens = No Fun Zone

by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 3, 2008 1:55 PM PDT up 0 recs

I like how he completely glosses over the fact we've got backfield options for the first time in EVER.

by BrianL on Sep 3, 2008 2:02 PM PDT up 0 recs

power rankings

I stopped consulting them once I started tracking the DVOA ratings more closely. Even if flawed, that’s a better strategy then following whatever whimsy strikes a columnist.

by Will Kier on Sep 3, 2008 1:58 PM PDT 0 recs

Granted

but Paul Zimmerman has been doing this for years and has developed a good bit of humility with his selections. That is to say Dr. Z is kinda the outlier in my opinion when it comes to the whimsies of columnists.

Why? Because the Seahawks rock my socks.

by Chickadee on Sep 3, 2008 2:00 PM PDT up 0 recs

Oh and Chickadee

don’t think that were trying to tell you not to make FanPosts we just want more thought into them. And I still love your additions to the Video Previews.

Coach Owens = No Fun Zone

by Scruffy Lefty on Sep 3, 2008 2:05 PM PDT up 0 recs

I knew you still loved me

but this is just icing on the cake.

P.S. I hear you, I just get lazy :(

Why? Because the Seahawks rock my socks.

by Chickadee on Sep 3, 2008 9:05 PM PDT up 0 recs

I feel like averaging all these media rankings

could work like a small sample version of when LL does group projections. Obviously these dudes can (and often do) get shit wrong, but it’s still a pool of minds that expends a lot of energy thinking about the game.

Or do these rankings have too much publication value over projection value?

by iheartjavelinas on Sep 3, 2008 2:30 PM PDT 0 recs