NFL power rankings for Week 12

By Rick Morris

MUTANT SUPER-TEAMS
1. New England

VERY GOOD TEAMS CERTAIN TO MAKE PLAYOFFS
2. Dallas
3. Indianapolis (demoted from top tier because of corrosive effects of injuries)
4. Green Bay
5. Jacksonville (wide receivers -- we don't need no stinking wide receivers!!!)
6. Pittsburgh
7. New York Giants (their only losses on the year have been to very good teams)

PLAYOFF CONTENDERS
8. Seattle
9. Tennessee (clean house in the front office if they don't get Vince Young some WRs this offseason!)
10. Tampa Bay
11. Cleveland (defense is apparently overrated!)
12. San Diego (gutless and inconsistent)
13. Denver (see directly above)
14. Washington
15. Arizona
16. Detroit
17. Philadelphia
18. Houston
19. Buffalo
20. New Orleans
21. Chicago
22. Carolina (see Denver and San Diego)
23. Kansas City
24. Baltimore (the schedule will kill them -- and stop crying, Billick!)

THE DREGS
25. Minnesota (quarterback is not an optional position in this here league)
26. Cincinnati
27. New York Jets
28. St. Louis
29. Atlanta
30. Oakland
31. San Francisco (between the NFL slugs and the faltering Cal Golden Bears, the Bay Area is a real hotbed of football these days, eh?)
32. Miami