Power rankings for NFL Week 11

By Rick Morris

MUTANT FREAK SUPER-TEAMS
1. New England
2. Indianapolis (barely clinging to a spot on this tier after Sunday night)

CERTAIN PLAYOFF TEAMS
3. Dallas
4. Green Bay
5. Pittsburgh
6. New York Giants (only losses on the season are to teams on this tier)

ONLY OTHER TEAMS IN POSITION TO MAKE THE PLAYOFFS
7. Tennessee
8. Jacksonville
9. San Diego
10. Seattle
11. Detroit
12. Cleveland (should be a lock -- amazingly easy schedule the rest of the way even though they have the league's worst defense)
13. New Orleans
14. Washington
15. Tampa Bay (imagine how good they'd be without half of their roster in Intensive Care)
16. Buffalo (they're doing it with smoke and mirrors but still winning)

PLAYOFF PRETENDERS
17. Baltimore (with the washed-up McNair and the brutal remaining schedule, they are done)
18. Chicago
19. Carolina (a fraud team -- even if they had a QB, they'd still have no heart)
20. Houston
21. Arizona
22. Philadelphia
23. Denver
24. Kansas City (bad time to switch to Croyle -- not that there's ever a good time to go to him!)

THE DREGS
25. Minnesota (horrible without Peterson)
26. Cincinnati
27. Atlanta
28. San Francisco
29. New York Jets
30. Oakland
31. St. Louis
32. Miami